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The Garmin 765T bundle includes lifetime map updates and features a 4.3-inch widescreen display, text-to-speech capabilities, media player, and FM transmitter for transmittingaudio--including directions and MP3 music and audiobooks--from the device to your car radio. Garmin nuvi 765T bundle comes with a lifetime map update card
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Garmin nüvi 765/765T 4.3-Inch Bluetooth Portable GPS Navigator with Traffic & Lifetime Map Updates
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This unit has excellent graphics and the menu is very intuitive, but that’s where it ends. When you upload google maps routes, it only saves the destination; not the route you planned. When trying to set-up custom routes, this thing will route you around every country road in the USA to get to your destination. When you try the optimize feature for the route, not matter which optimize feature you select, it always says this is the best route and will not let you adjust it. If your going to the grocery store at the end of your street, then this is your machine. Otherwise, I would look somewhere else. Also, the disclamer on the lifetime maps is it’s good for the life of the machine or the current map provider; whichever happens first.
Rating: 1 / 5
Got this one to replace my aging 370. On the whole I like the 765 (and the lifetime map updates!) though was hoping that 3 years and a higher end model would result in a far better GPS. It is more accurate, has better graphics and visibility even in strong daylight (unlike 370), faster and shows both turn lanes and traffic conditions, which I like.
On the con side, it took forever to update the map, the 765 is a lot more heavy than the 370 (no more keeping it in my purse) and the speaker is FAR worse. The voice sounds choppy and I had a hard time understanding what a caller was saying on an incoming call. The 370 voice quality was much better. I don’t know why a newer higher end model should have such poor sound.
The navigation options should have improved. I was hoping the 765 will have overcome the 370 tendency to select obscure highways rather than freeways, and/or allow the option of preferring freeways, but that seems to still be a problem. Having the 370 navigate me through high Sierra mountain roads during winter, rather than go through the freeways, is downright crazy, and potentially dangerous. I have not driven to Tahoe with the 765 yet, but I hope it will be better in that respect.
Inserting an address also hasn’t improved much (except for switching to QWERTY keyboard). The device should remember cities inserted and offer them earlier than new ones (e.g. if I used Santa Clara, I w
So on the whole a decent GPS and certainly does the job. Lifetime maps and traffic are great. But the poor quality of the speaker and lack of configurable navigational choices lowers the score heavily.
Rating: 3 / 5
There are a lot or reviews for the Garmin 765T, but this is the first for the unit, bundled with the lifetime map update.
First, this is a great deal, because for twenty-five dollars extra, amazon is giving you free lifetime map updates. This is normally a hundred + dollar option.
Unit is great. Fast satellite locate, great accuracy. Lane assist is great option that it comes with. I am not sure why, but on a 3 hour drive from WA to ID, I never saw traffic information once. Maybe that only works in BIG cities. I will check in Seattle or Portland.
The speaker phone works much better than expected. Doing 70MPH, the caller said it had only a minor sound like a window was cracked open (I had them rolled up). They said that they could still hear me clearly. I like how the caller ID and address book are displayed on the Garmin. Also, phone battery status.
I did go to Garmin’s website and it said both a map update and a software update were needed. The software update took 5 minutes. The map update was long! Over 3 hours to download 2 GB (not MB, but GB!) and then transfer it into the unit. I think even with the quickest internet, this is still a 2 hour process.
My GPS is fully updated now! So I hit the road to Idaho. Very accurate. Lot’s of voices and icons to choose from. You can download more, for free, from Garmin.
I really like that you can enter coordinates, a feature my older Magellan did not have.
I only have one critical comment, and it is minor. On the display, it shows the speed limit, and your speed. It also gives you the choice of seeing your distance to destination OR elevation, OR estimated arrival time, OR time to destination, or …
It would be nice if you could select an option to automatically scroll through these instead of having to manually selecting one. I like to know both elevation, and distance to the destination simultaneously. Elevation is important to me so that I know to keep an eye out for ice or snow.
Overall, I love it though. I like the eco mode, which assist you in optimizing gas mileage.
Rating: 5 / 5