Garmin nüvi 760 4.3-Inch Widescreen Bluetooth Portable GPS Automobile Navigator (Factory Refurbished)
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GARMIN Nuvi 760 Refurb GPS Navigator. Garmin International is pleased to announce the new nuvi 760 navigator and personal travel assistant. This newest model in the popular nuvi family features a sleek design with a fixed, non flip up, antenna, in addition to new software features such as route planning, trip logs, speed limit indicator, Where Am I, and more. The built in FM transmitter allows users to wirelessly transmit audio, including MP3s, phone calls and audio books, through the vehicles stereo. The nuvi 760 is packaged with Garmins FM traffic receiver, which allows users to avoid traffic congestion, accidents and road construction. Traffic services are now available in 68 major metropolitan areas in the US and Canada1. Traffic receiver includes a 3 month free trial subscription. The nuvi 760 offers Bluetooth wireless technology for hands free calling when paired with compatible phones. Users simply tap nuvis screen to dial or answer calls and then speak directly into the units built in microphone. In addition, users can look up phone numbers and dial them from the mobile phones call history log that shows calls received, calls dialed and calls missed, for supported phones. If a user needs a phone number for their destination, they can easily find and dial it from nuvis points of interest database, which includes hotels, restaurants, stores and much more. The nuvi 760 offers full coverage mapping for the United States, Canada and Puerto Rico. Refurbished.
Features
- Touchscreen Auto Navigation System
- Sleek Ultra Slim Design/Easy To Use Touchscreen Interface
- Bright 4.3 Inch Diagonal Color Display/480 x 272 Pixels/ WQVGA Display
- Integrated FM Wireless Transmitter Sends Audio Through Vehicle Stereo
- Traffic Alerts with Included GTM 20 FM TMC Traffic Receiver
- Dimensions (W x H x L): 1 x 3 x 5 inches
- Weight: 0 pounds
Garmin Nuvi GPS
This is about the 5th Garmin I have bought through Amazon. I bought the Nuvi 760 because it is just like the ones I already have and it has all the ‘features’ I need. Why pay more for a newer model, when they are more expensive and don’t have any new innovations that make the cost worth it.
I shop Amazon because they sell excellent products about the cheapest I can find anywhere. With free shipping and NO Sales Tax, it is impossible to beat the bottom line cost at Amazon.
Corrupted voice prompt
The voice prompt is corrupted every now and then. The prompt is interrupted or hesitated like the unit is busy doing. The sound is interrupted similar to watching a movie online when it is not buffering fast enough.
The best GPS
Support Arabic menu
Navigate from door to door, quick & easy to use in car, truck or walking
Disappointed with this version
I’ve had Garmin’s in the past, and decided to upgrade to a larger screen and smaller unit with this purchase.
The first problem I noticed was that when the volume was set to 100%, the speaker clipped out. Maybe that’s why it was a refurb? But if so they should have fixed it. It’s very annoying and for the most part the volume needed to be 100% to hear it over the road noise and radio.
The FM Transmitter… useless. When using it, you can’t listen to your radio. But worse than that, there’s a lot of static no matter which station I tried.
Finally… it displays the speed limit, but this was highly inaccurate. Many roads I was on showed different posted speed limits so I’m not sure how useful this feature is.
I’m still giving 3 stars because the GPS functionality itself is good, including the text-to-speech. But this unit had issues and I returned it to look for a different model without the FM Transmitter and hopefully the speaker will be fine.
Garmin Nuvi 760 – 2nd buy – ‘Nuff said
This is the second Garmin Nuvi 760 my family has purchased. Of course that should clearly indicate my thoughts on this product. It has the necessary bells and whistles, bluetooth, FM radio connectivity, MP3, live trafic updates, etc . .
Before buying this refurbished model I looked for a newer Garmin at the local big boxes. What I found is that although the newer Garmins had a few more technical improvements (in the display in particular) they all had one common failing. For some reason Garmin has changed their mounting charger/FM receiver configuration. The 760 is perfect. That should have been the model for all future mounting systems. Instead theyu made some changes making the installation a little more cumbersome, just enough to make it inconvenient.
Great GPS
Pros: New driver so I think this GPS is quite helpful. Everything works fine, including the FM transmitter. Several others complain that it does not work. But this can be resolved by plugging an earbud or attaching an antenna. Also, you need to find a good frequency.
Cons: I am sometimes confused on the highway. Maybe I will go with one like 765T in the future.
excellent
I was disappointed I didn’s receive an operator’s manual with the product. Could you mail me one?
Incomplete User Interface
I have been using multiple GPS devices for more than 5 years now. I started with laptop based GPS softwares, then bought TomTom Go 510 4 years ago. I wasn’t very happy with TomTom so I decided to purchase Garmin since it has very good reputation as well as international support.
After 1 year of usage, I think I know every detail of this device so that I can review in very detail. Bottom line is it’s proven to be serious mistake for me to choose Garmin Device. Here’s why.
The advantage of Garmin device is,
1.Accuracy of Map (not POI)
2.Routing Algorithm. Routing is accurate and quick to recalculate.
3.Easy of Use (however, there’s flip side)
4.Very good screen (I agree and like it)
5.Solid construction. This device never hung in my daily usage. Sometimes, this device is so hot that I can’t even touch it but it worked fine.
6.International Support. If you occasionally travel oversea, support for foreign country will be useful.
Now the down sides.
Starting from Garmin User Interface,
1.Quality of Information.
Garmin’s display screen delivers very limited amount of information. So, each piece should be very concise and accurate. At least I expect that. However, Garmin delivers not very useful but annoying information. For example, assuming I drive from San Diego to LAX, it’s straight 80 miles drive on I-5, then another 50 miles of I405. Once I get on I5, I will move to 1st or 2nd lane then I will forget the next turn for more than an hour. Other GPS device simply shows me that I can forget next turn for at least 1 hour by showing remaining miles.
On the contrary, Garmin displays remaining miles to major (I don’t know what’s guideline) ramp and junction, which I don’t need to care. If I need to keep left, why I should even bother to care about those. I don’t need to do anything. After I first purchased Garmn, I actually changed lane to the last one to be prepared. Now I know I need to ignore when GPS is saying “keep left in next xxx mile”. But in one incident, “keep right in next xxx miles” but I didn’t need to change or take ramp. I don’t know why GPS guided me that way. Under heavy traffic, I was stuck in the last lane, where I didn’t need to.
2.Limited Information
This is related to ease of use. Garmin doesn’t overflow display screen with information. It shows a few selected information so that driver can easily recognize it. However, every user has different preference. I like to see more information since I can make better decision. However, there’s no option to see more. Unlike TomTom, which I can reconfigure every aspect of user interface, Garmin doesn’t give me any freedom. So, it’s hard to believe easy of use is actually for users. Garmin tried to reduce their R&D cost by simplifying user interface.
3.Map Display
These days GPS devices are turning into wider display, which I doubt usefulness. To me, the road ahead of me is most important. I don’t care road behind me. In Garmin, my vehicle is located at 1/3 place from the bottom, which means 2/3 of screen is used to show road ahead of me. Another funny thing is that, the point of next turn or event is located at the top so that, I can barely see the turn but I can’t see the result of event. For example, If I need to make left turn (less 90 degree turn), the road after the left turn is not visible until I approach very closely. So, I know there’s something but I can’t guess what will be the result. This isn’t very bad by itself but combined with other drawback.
And display refresh rate is so slow. It’s ok to be once every 1 or 2 second in the freeway but I would like to be more frequent when it’s approaching downtown since the distance between each turn is so short.
4.Incorrect guide
In Los Angeles, there are more than 10 freeways stretching every direction. It’s quite common to move to other freeway. When I approach the ramp, GPS indicates that by saying keep right and take ramp. But the information displayed on the screen (as well as voice prompt) is such as “take the ramp to I605S/605N”. It doesn’t tell I need to go to south or north until I approach I605 very closely. This is necessary there because the ramp is usually 2 lane and one lane per direction. It’s quite usual to see congestion in one lane. Without knowing which direction to go, I better wait in the congested lane. But sometimes, it’s very annoying to find out I needed to take the other lane after waiting for 30 min. Since map display (mentioned in #3) doesn’t show the result of event, it’s hard to find from display. I can control display to zoom out but that needs me to stop the vehicle or I need helper. I contacted Garmin Service for this matter, and their answer was “latest device supports lane assistance”. But this is not about lane selection. It’s about advance information, which already exist in the device.
5.POI
Unlike TomTom, which shows unlimited number of POI entry, Garmin display only certain number of entires. Then it stops. If I select fast food, which is abundant in downtown area, I can’t find any restaurant more than 1 or 2 miles from my current location due to this limitation. Due to this, it’s impossible to find certain place without very good clue. Especially people like me with short memory, it’s hard to use Garmin’s POI. Most of the time, my search result comes out as “no entry”. I can’t search entire database by pressing down the arrow since it stop display. I can’t think of any logical reason why Garmin engineers programmed that way. it’s not matter of range. Sometimes, I found one POI entry 6000 miles away from me. (I have Malaysian map installed).
Also, POI searcher is extremely slow. I don’t expect it to change search result on the fly but it’s not pleasant to wait for several minute to find one restaurant 10 miles away. (search takes longer if destination is far)
6.Voice Prompt
Voice Prompt is clear and correct. It reads Spanish names correctly. However, when voice prompt is being played, screen display stops. Especially in busy street, display is frozen for a few sec sometimes, and misses a few screen update. Due to this I need to concentrate what Garmin is saying and I can’t use phone since it will distract me. If display is also updated at the same time, it will assure me what I heard is correct.
And also, there’s Garmin 760 specific problem with Traffic Information.
1.After several months of usage, I found out that Traffic information is not really up to date. For example, I was driving on I405 northbound about 7:00 PM on Frday near Irvine. At this time, the road is not usually congested but GPS still shows that there’s 50 min delay to LA downtown. Actually, there’s no delay. If you turn on traffic avoidance, you will find it very useless. Not only because of outdated information.
Routing algorithm is also not well developed for traffic. There are 2 facts.
Traffic sensors are only in major roads. Though there are traffic conditions everywhere, only major roads appears to be congested. So, Garmin takes route to back roads, which is nothing different but worse.
Most of the time, if Garmin can’t find any back roads to use, it may guide you to take ramp. Then go back to freeway. It’s because ramp doesn’t appear to be congested. It repeats until end of traffic condition. This is really annoying. When I first turned on avoidance and hit the congestion, I thought Garmin really found good alternative route. I moved from 1st lane to last lane, which is not easy under heavy traffic and became furious to find out that the only shortcut was ramp
I contacted Garmin Customer Service for routing algorithm related to traffic avoidance to find out what’s the justification for that result. He simply said, turn off traffic avoidance. If I can’t use traffic avoidance, what’s the point of traffic subscription.
I am ASIC engineer in R&D for more than 15 years. I make many engineering decision every day. Some make sense, some don’t. However, I have my own justification for those decisions. Whenever I see new and high tech devices, I like to figure out how it’s made and what could be engineering challenge and decision.
From the finding I described, I think that Garmin engineers built a device which looks good and attractive but lacks real world experience. So far, the drawbacks are not technically challenging and looks minor but greatly limiting usability. It might be hard to find it bad unless they serious use in the view of regular customer. They may lacks critical reviewer or engineers are full of pride achieving great routing algorithm and doesn’t like to listen to small matters like this.
I contacted Garmin service regarding above matter and wanted to contribute to make better product, reply was very disappointing.
Anyway, my experience with Garmin turned out to be disappointing and I am planning to purchase another one, mostly TomTom.
Delivery and Performance
I ordered this product and it was shipped on June 14 and was supposed to be rcvd by June 18. When it was not received yet on June 22, I sent a request to trace and rcvd back an answer to wait until June 29. On the 28th , I sent another request that said I didn’t think I was going to rcv it and they sent another unit which I rcvd in 3 days. Never did get the first unit. I believe the first unit must have been ripped off in the mailing process. I did appreciate the fact that there was not arguments about shipping the second unit, because at that point I really wondered how it would be dealt with. Good Job!
On a lighter not, I am very satisfied with the gps. I haven’t had it very long , but so far have been very satisfied with the features etc. Hope it maintains that satisfaction.
Richard Hicks
Great Item
This item very nice, great GPS, just about the phone not very clear especially during the driving.
Refurbished is not a bad word
Yes, I had to return the first refurbished 760 — it failed in the first hour of use. However, Amazon made the exchange simple and speedy. This second unit is working very well. What surprises me is the accuracy and detail of the data base. I found that a route of just a few blocks that I had come to use habitually was longer than the route advised by the Garmin 760. That may not always be so because of construction or other road conditions, but it is still reassuring in general. The verbal turn directions and graphic display are very clear, and the directions to prepare for the next turn (what lane to use) are very helpful.
Great but overkill.
I used the product comparison for this unit and thought it was the best for the money. Didn’t need the European map in the 770. I’m dissapointed in the FM transmitter. Not real clear and cumbersome to use. Same with the Bluetooth feature. Speaker isn’t the quality it needs to be useful. People on the other end can hear ‘ok’ but it’s too distorted to be used practically everyday. Would have bought one less expensive without the Bluetooth and FM transmitter if I had it to do all over again. Overall, very pleased with it!
How did I live without it?
Very nice clear screen, voice can be set to come out the car radio speakers, audio books available. The book mutes itself and backs up a little bit when the talking directions come on. The bluetooth allows the voice of a cellphone call to come out your speakers too. It worked ok but I never use that feature. My husband bought a chip with another map on it. Another cool thing is it has a whole phone book in it with phone numbers and addresses. I have used that several times and called ahead on errands. My only complaint is the battery length seems a little short, use the cigarette power point cord. When you plug in the cord the voice is nice and loud too. The other negative item is when you try to use it as a picture viewer, you put put the pictures on the chip and then it is really slow to load the pictures to view them. This is the only poor thing about the Garmin and it is not what this tool is supposed to be good at. At what it is supposed to do, finding directions, it is great. I couldn’t live without it.
Best GPS I’ve had yet.
Outstanding interface, and I absolutely love the fact that you can stick with a basic arrow indicator (I can’t bring myself to go child mode with a space shuttle, monster truck, or what have you). It’s got some features that I still have yet to try, but will in the near future, I’m sure, including transmitting directly to the radio, Bluetooth functionality for hands-free calling, and mp3 playing (which I’m sure will come in handy being used in tandem with the Bluetooth feature). It’s worked flawlessly for me so far, and I’ll post a more thorough review when I can.
garbage
It a very dangerous piece of garbage. I post e detailed review on how bad this unit is. amazon did not published. That’s how amazon ( lower case intended) lost 4 customers
GPS Newbie
My first GPS, and I couldn’t be happier. It fired up fully charged right out of the box W/2009 maps installed. I tested navigation with everyday stops that I am familiar with, and I must say that I was impressed with the accuracy. I did notice that in a few instances, I was on top of the turn before the voice prompt gave instruction. I ‘m not too worried about that however, as you can clearly see the visual approach of the turn on the map. The 760 is packed with features, and is very easy to operate. Bluetooth works great! The 760 immediately synched with my Motorola Q, and imported my phone list. I have an aux jack in my Saab 9-5, and the phone sound quality is incredible through the car speakers. I made various calls while traveling on the freeway, and no one reported hearing any echoes. Crystal clear! I picked up an 8gb SD card and loaded pictures of the family and a ton of mp3’s. Mp3 sound quality through the aux is equal to that of my iPod. My only complaint about the Mp3 player is that it does not appear as though there is a shuffle feature. Overall, a great unit as indicated by the many other reviews out there. I have purchased refurb electronics before, and for the most part, have had great experiences with them. The money I saved from buying refurb vs. new paid for the SD card and a vent bracket. Being a refurb unit, it came in a plain Garmin box, but inside it was packaged as a new unit would be with all accessories listed.
Great unit, difficult to use
My refurbished Garmin Nuvi 760 has been in use for about a month. The unit arrived in new condition. It was perfect with no signs that it wasn’t a new item. Garmin allows access to updated maps for 60 days on refurbished units so I didn’t run into the problems associated with some other refurbs. The download was difficult until I discovered you can’t download to Google Chrome browser. a quick reload of Windows Explorer solved my problem. I have not been succesful using the Bluetooth feature. I have it set up but thus far have not been able to get it to function properly. Overall I am satisfied and would encourge others to take advantage of the low refurb price.
New to GPS
I went with the Refurb to save money on the 760, and very pleased. It looks new to me, everything wrapped and sealed as if it were new. It came with a fully charged batt, and the latest firmware, so it is definetely a refurb – but cosmetically you would never know it. It only takes 20 sec or so to aquire satellites on a cold start. I’m new to this, so take this review for what its worth. I noticed that the newer streets that are in my area are on the nuvi 760. These are new streets (subdivisions) that are a year or 2 old, so I’m happy with the maps that are preloaded on it. The nuvi is very user freindly and intuitive, the touchscreen make it super easy to use.
Garmin nüvi 760
I checked around on line for the product before deciding which Garmin nüvi I wanted to buy. This was the third GPS I had purchased and I knew what I wanted in a GPS. After checking price and reviews I ordered it from a company I had dealt with before. Amazon.com had a good price and I trusted there products and companies they use. The product arrived faster then I expected it to. The shipping was fast and arrived in good shape. I am very happy with the order and would recommend them to anyone.
Great product. May buy another one.
Pros: It simply works. I’ve compared it to an IPaq 310 and the POI directory is much better. The unit is fast. The theft lock feature is really nice. Detouring is easy. I haven’t had a traffic item yet but, it’s $60 for lifetime activation. The screen is visible in daylight. The extras are nice such as changing the navagation item. The trip computer is good as well.
Cons: The FM transmitter is virtually useless. So, don’t buy it for that. The bluetooth works but, the phone contacts are only available when the bluetooth is active. You have to convert them to favorites. The bluetooth volume is not very loud. It was a pain to pair as well. The current speed is not shown on the main screen when routed and you cannot change the map colors. Also, most of the POIs don’t show on the map and if they do, you cannot touch the item to get information.
It is still a great unit but, I couldn’t give it 5 stars because of the cons.