Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1370 in Consumer Electronics
• Brand: Garmin
• Model: 010-00715-22
• Released on: 2008-09-20

Amazon.com

nüvi 765T Smart navigation with 3D city view and lane assistance. Lane assistance Guides you to the correct lane for your onward journey, banishing confusion on motorways and multi-lane junctions. 3D City View Navigate your way to a new age in satellite navigation, with panoramic 3D City View. As you drive around major cities in Europe, a 3D view of key buildings and landmarks adds to the realism of the navigation experience. European mapping with digital elevation mapping contour detail for a better understanding of the surrounding terrain. Rolling screen transition, accelerated map redraw and routing capabilities make screen zooming even smoother and ensure the navigation always matches your pace. Advanced multi-point route planning Lets you save 10 routes, specify via points and preview simulated turns on the wide screen. In addition, nüvi 765T automatically sorts multiple destinations to find your most efficient route – optimising your journey to save time and fuel. Photo navigation To plan trips to landmarks and attractions before you set off, choose and save location-tagged photographs from Google Panoramio on your nüvi in a wish-list of places to visit. Then, at your leisure, select a photo destination for turn-by-turn directions straight to the scene. Park Position Recall Don’t lose your car in a car park. nüvi 765T automatically marks the position on the map screen. Smart traffic avoidance Stay aware of jams, accidents and roadworks on your route, with dependable delay information. Garmin’s distinctive, streaming traffic service uses live traffic data from cameras located every two miles along every major route to help you avoid the tailbacks. Bluetooth hands-free calling Integrates A2DP stereo Bluetooth® with a built-in microphone and speaker. Pair with your compatible mobile phone to talk hands-free through the sat-nav and give the road your full attention. Where Am I? Gives you details about your position on command. Simply tap the car icon for your exact latitude and longitude coordinates, nearest address, contact details for your appropriate vehicle recovery service and directions to nearby hospitals, police and petrol stations. Safety camera alerts Contains Garmin’s unique, advanced driver safety system with daily updates. Travel with the confidence you are driving safely, responsibly and legally and don’t be fooled by false alerts. The system uses a patented ‘corridor’ technique of camera validation so you only get alerts relevant to cameras on your route. nüvi also displays speed limits for greater awareness. Garmin Lock™ Our inventive anti-theft protection system that uses GPS technology to safeguard the sat-nav by locking to a secure location of your choice. Just return to the location to unlock.

European Mapping Stereo hands-free calls Safety Cameras Lifetime traffic avoidance MP3 player Speed limits

Box Contains

• Garmin Nüvi 765T satellite navigation system
• Preloaded City Navigator NT for North America or Europe (full coverage) Preloaded City Navigator NT for North America or Europe (full coverage) or other country
• Lifetime traffic FM traffic receiver with vehicle power cable
• Vehicle suction cup mount
• USB cable
• Dashboard disc
• Quick start manual

Customer Reviews

Very good in parts - not as customisable as some - but getting better!
I have owned most of the different Sat-Nav makes over the last year or so and always liked Garmin, but have had a TomTom Go 920 for a while. This Chrsitmas, I thought I'd treat myself to the new Garmin. For a week, i thought I'd done well, but slowly the faults came to light.

The Good
1. Garmin's maps (from NavTeq) are always one-generation more up-to-date than the TomTom. There are omissions (all sat nav maps are way behind paper ones), but Garmins are good.

2. Route accuracy has always been excellent with Garmin

3. TMC now seems to be much quicker to lock-on and gets much more data than my old Garmin 660

4. Scroll speed is MUCH improved - very smooth and quick


The Bad
1. The lane guidance often has font sizes you can barely read and is not on-screen long enough to properly assess. The dithering on the image is very noticable, too - you CAN see it in Amazon's pic, but it looks worse in real life.

2. The Bluetooth was very unstable with my Samsung, the I-Phone (both generations) and the LG Prada. In all cases it would re-boot or simply switch off. As there is no reset button, it was hard to figure out what to do next!

3. Garmin still gives later 'turn warnings' and fewer directions overall than my TomTom. Only you can say if that's an issue for you.

4. The Speed Camera warnings show fixed and mobile sites. Many people like this, but it means in my part of Derbyshire, I have a camera warning constantly - wherever I go! The updates are very expensive, too.

5. Many (but not all) users have reported sudden, uncommanded, shutdowns of their units.


The Ugly

1. The unit looks great, but is VERY susceptible to fingerprints.

Overall, it's a good unit, but compared to TomTom, Garmin just haven't moved on far enough, or fast enough. Maybe in the next generation (which might be why the 765T is only a refresh rather than a complete new model)

The Beautiful

Garmin have now released software v3.0 (you need to load WebUpdater from Garmin), which fixes many of the issues that users had problems with. Best news of all, though, if you have the funds, is that Garmin will now provide you with lifetime fresh maps (4 per year for the life of the unit) for £99. You will need a good broadband connection, though - downloads ara around 3GB each!

Caution!
Think carefully before choosing this well-regarded GPS. Mine died the first time it was mounted in the car, and could no longer even be powered on. In mid June, the gps forums have been inundated with anguished posts from 765t owners all over North America and Europe who have watched their units die. An automatic update bug seems to have caused this havoc, and on the 25th June the Garmin support site led with news of a mandatory update issued that day for the 765t to fix the problem.
So, if you go for this unit, when you unpack it DO NOT SWITCH IT ON.
Download the WebUpdater from the garmin site, attach the 765t to a usb port on your computer, and register the device. (At this stage, it is not functioning as a gps, but as an external usb drive.)
On registration, it will receive a software update. After that is done, your computer screen will tell you updates are available: click on update now. The gps firmware will be updated. It is only after you have safely removed hardware for the 765t connection, that the gps will restart and install the firmware.
Amazon replaced my dead unit and I have run the above routine on the replacement. I am leaving the gps attached to the usb port to give the battery some charge before safely removing hardware, and completing the update procedure. This is essentially what I did with the first unit, except that I switched it on, and it seemed to be working indoors.
If the unit refuses to power on, it has to go back to the factory for repair (at your expense), and the current turnaround is claimed as 10 days.

Great navigator - but the 760 is better value...
I have been using the Nuvi 765T for three weeks, having previously owned a Garmin Nuvi 760 Satellite Navigation System which found its way to my mother in law.

Like the 760, the 765T is a "premium" navigator, in that it has detailed maps for the whole of Europe, integrated traffic (note the reception is patchy, but is useful if you do a lot of motorway journeys), a stereo bluetooth connection, photobrowser, FM transmitter, etc. I have loaded the whole of the Good Pub Guide and have pub reviews and locations conveniently to hand.

The 765T is considerably more expensive than the 760 and for this you get:
- more up to date (dated 2009) maps. This is a good thing. For example most roads now have the speed limits coded and displayed on screen - useful in changing 30/40/50mph areas.
- a faster satellite lock i.e. less than 10 seconds provided it has been used in the last few days.
- a faster screen update (around 4Hz), smoother scrolling screens and customisable fields on the display.
- 3-D rendering of buildings and some landmarks.
- lane assist for selected motorway juntions - this is a still screen which appears on the approach to (most) M-way junctions image to guide your lane positioning. This is shown in the pic above.

After owning the 760, I have to say I was a bit underwhelmed by these extra features. They are helpful for the most part and improve the look of the device, but I'm not sure they warrant the extra cash. It has a more powerful processor and more storage but this is offset by the need to process 3-D maps, so overall it doesn't appear lots faster. The rendering looks good but doesn't add to the drivers understanding of the route. It's a great gadget if you must have the latest, but the 760T is better value and does 90% of the work.

(added 11/11/08) I've been using this device for a couple weeks and I have grown to like the smoothness updating of the display and also the traffic display has been upgraded from the 760. I think this would be 5 stars if it was cheaper, and didn't overlap so much with the 760.