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 Garmin’s nüvis pack top of the line features into a slim form factor.. Garmin’s HotFix satellite prediction (which locates your position quickly and precisely), Lane Assist (which provides lane guidance and junction views when possible), automatic time zone transitioning, and 3D Building views as well as Garmin Connect Photos to help you visually ascertain your position. Additionally, [Read More...]
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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.
- unit occasionally shows my car icon driving in the fields parallel to the road i am on. at intersections it then thinks i am driving on the intersecting road. after 5-10 minutes it settles down.
- sometimes it takes several minutes to acquire satellites; sometimes the unit does not find any satellites after 10 minutes and i have to turn it off and then on again.
- when typing in the name of a place or the address of a place, often the unit does not enter what i actually typed. something is wrong with the sensors of the touch screen. others seem to be having this same problem with their 765 as well.
- screen shows lots of fingerprints.
- about once a week the unit tells me my maps are out of date, even though they are the latest maps.
- it seems to receive far too many advertisements for local fast food and hotels when it gets traffic updates. for example, without naming names, i have seen over a hundred ads for a well known seafood restaurant named after a red crustacean that goes well with drawn butter. :)
note that the 765 does not have the latest operating system. the newest units like the 1390 have the latest operating system, but garmin has removed the mp3 player, fm transmitter, store routes/multiple destinations, audio book player, locate (where is the car parked), 3D building view, accept SD cards (1390 only takes micro-SD), and a few other things.
a year ago a lot of the 7×5 series were turned into bricks when they received a bad firmware update, and needed to be sent back to garmin to have them fixed.
so i think the 7×5 series were just lemons. my last garmin did not have any of these problems. i was very satisfied with my previous garmin and only replaced it so i could get traffic info.