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Garmin nüvi 765/765T 4.3-Inch Bluetooth Portable GPS Navigator with Traffic | 
| Brand: Garmin
Category: CE
List Price: $499.99
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Rating:  744 reviews
Sales Rank: 202
Format: CD
Media: Electronics
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Number Of Items: 1
Batteries Included: Yes
Operating System: N/A
Native Resolution: 480 x 272
Display Size: 4.30
Battery: 1 Lithium-Ion
Includes MP3 Player: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 4.8 x 0.8 x 3
MPN: NUVI 765T
Model: NUVI 765T
UPC: 834140676005
EAN: 0834140676005
ASIN: B001ELJER4
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Bright, 4.3-inch diagonal color WQVGA TFT touchscreen with 480 x 272 pixels and white backlight | | • | Preloaded with City Navigator North America NT | | • | Bluetooth wireless technology for hands-free calling with compatible devices | | • | High-sensitivity GPS receiver for improved performance and reception | | • | NOTE: Model number on the box is 765T because the traffic receiver is included; however, the model number on the device itself is 765 as the "T" in 765T refers to the additional component |
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Product Description
Have you lost your sense of direction? Let Garmin nuvi 765t 4.3" GPS be your guiding system to take you hither and yonder. It opens United States, Canada, and Puerto Rico for visual exploration. You'll get the knowledge of a native where and when ever you choose to go. It's the surefire tool for any traveler even for those with no sense of direction. The Garmin nuvi 765t is fully equipped to help you get where you're going. The nuvi 765T offers full coverage mapping for the United States, Canada and Puerto Rico. The preloaded map data features nearly six million points of interest, including hotels, restaurants, gas stations, ATMs and attractions. The map data is provided by NAVTEQ, a world leader in premium-quality mapping. It features 3D buildings, lane assist and lifetime traffic alerts from NAVTEQ. Take advantage of Garmin's first premium traffic service without subscription fees. 3D navigation with lane assist provides drivers a clear picture of what lies ahead on their route, including road sign detail and arrows indicating the proper lane for navigation. Some areas even offer a 3D view of buildings. Steer clear of traffic with nuvi's integrated FM traffic receiver. Receive alerts about traffic delays and road construction that lie ahead on your route. Feel comfortable and at home on the road with this Garmin nuvi 765t. It's essentially a must for any trip. Auto time zone will automatically adjust your time zone while navigating Garmin Connect Photos - associate your favorite images with saved locations DEM maps show you shaded terrain contours at various zoom levels High-sensitivity GPS receiver for improved performance and reception Turn-by-turn directions with voice guidance Easy-to-use, Touchscreen interface Trip computer records mileage, max speed, total time and more Simplified PC connectivity, using USB mass storage Configurable vehicle icons allows users to select a fun
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 An Excellent GPS device. October 23, 2008
Dodongo Dislikes Smoke (Boston, MA)
593 out of 600 found this review helpful
This Nuvi does several things very well, and I've yet to discover any serious shortcomings. My thoughts:
Navigation: Excellent, as is typical with Garmin units. On a couple of occasions the voice (right now I'm using Australian Karen) told me my destination was on the wrong side of the street.
Map: The map is clear, the refresh rate is fast, and all of the right information is provided on-screen, including details for upcoming turns and junctions, speed limit, and traffic alerts. It's annoying that I can't choose to switch the display of my current speed to some other piece of info. I already have a speedometer. The 3D buildings feature seems pretty gimmicky, and is implemented sporadically, even in downtown Boston. When there is coverage, most buildings are monochromatic blocks, and not the photo-realistic buildings seen in screenshots.
Lane Assist: This feature has been spot-on so far. It's nice driving in a new area and not getting flustered about being in the wrong lane. I have yet to see the full-screen 3D Lane Assist Junction View shown in the many 765t screenshots -- however, I've done very little highway driving, and I believe this screen requires that the user press the top-left (upcoming turn icon).
>>>>>UPDATE: After some highway driving, it turns out that the full-screen 3D Lane Assist Junction View shows up automatically before potentially tricky highway junctions. Very nice.
Traffic: As far as I know, I have not been re-routed because of traffic. However, it's very easy to bring up a list of major roads and their current traffic conditions, and to avoid them at will. The pop-up advertising associated with the "free" traffic is pretty subtle, and never distracting.
Bluetooth: I'm impressed with this feature so far. It mated with my phone (old Motorola RAZR V3) easily, importing all of my contacts in the process. The ability to instantly dial any point of interest (e.g., to check on store hours) is brilliant. The volume from the speaker is reasonably loud. I also tried sending the audio to my car stereo using an audio cable, and the output seemed a bit low (I had to turn my car stereo way up). I have not yet tried sending the audio to my car stereo using the FM transmitter. I called my voicemail, and the built-in microphone picks up my voice reasonably well with the engine running. I'm not sure how well it would work with highway speeds. I'm told that the cheap Garmin microphone (which plugs into the cradle, not the unit) improves voice quality.
>>>>>UPDATE: This is true -- the microphone is an improvement, though it adds yet another long cord to your long cord collection. Also, I've tried the FM transmitter. It works, albeit with a certain amount of static. I imagine this feature would intolerable if you are driving a long way.
Other features: I haven't used the SD card slot for anything. I haven't tried the photo viewer or the mp3 player, and I probably won't.
Build Quality: Seems solid. The unit has a certain heft to it, and it's covered in a soft, rubbery coating. I've also dropped it already (because I'm an idiot) -- still working beautifully.
Suggested improvements: Garmin doesn't make it easy to look up the actual coordinates (latitude and longitude) for favorites or points of interest. This information should be available at the press of a button.
Needless to say, I'm pleased with my purchase. The 756t is not cheap right now, and if you can live without the new features, you might be better off with an older unit. That said, if you're looking for a gps device with all of the latest features and compatibility, this seems to be a solid pick.
Great so far December 4, 2008
Donald Signorino (Bayville, NJ United States)
167 out of 169 found this review helpful
I received my 765T a few days ago and love it so far. After reading some up and down reviews, I wasn't certain what to expect. I am pleasantly surprised.
To start, the unit's volume is plenty loud, even at highway speeds. The screen is readable at all times, and automatically changes to a darkened "night mode" at night - very easy on the eyes. You can force it to day or night mode, if desired.
The map's movement and fluidity is tremendous. It has a very natural looking motion at all times. Garmin claims the unit updates at 10fps, and it seems to be about that. I am still deciding if I prefer 3D or 2D mode yet, but both are great. I tested routing on a few trips and the navigation worked perfectly. Directions were given in plenty of time, and repeated at appropriate intervals. When just driving (not navigating) the green bar at the top displays your current road, and even displays the next exit when driving (not navigating) on major highways. This was unexpected for me and really cool! The voice on the unit is clear.
The overall feel of the software is great. The menus move quickly and seem logically laid out. You can add categories to your favorites to better organize them. This helped a lot, since favorites are sorted by default via distance from your current location. Creating folders for your favorites works very well. You can even add a picture (and phone #) to your favorites. Very nice!
As for Bluetooth: I paired the 765 with my Blackberry Storm easily, and everything works flawlessly. My phone's contacts transferred immediately, and I can call Points of Interest and people from my contacts easily, with 1 touch. I do not have any of the bluetooth issues described in other places. No issues at all. So I'm either lucky or maybe there is some inconsistency in the hardware. More likely, different combinations of cell phones and GPS units lead to varying results. IMPORTANT: I did update the unit to it's latest firmware, which many say have helped their bluetooth connections.
I haven't been to an area with a traffic reception signal yet, so I can't comment on the traffic function.
All the other niceties work well for me also: The picture viewer, MP3 player, etc all work as advertised. I even put 1 of my pics as the startup image.
In conclusion, I am very pleased with the product so far. This is a great product that I would highly recommend.
A satisfied purchaser . . . October 20, 2008
Jared Emery (Port Angeles, WA)
101 out of 103 found this review helpful
I purchased the Nuvi 780 on Oct 1 because the 765t wasn't available at my local big box yet. Two weeks later (and after a firmware upgrade), my 780 developed a speech impediment: "Turn left at highway . . . . . 405, then turn l . . . eft." It sounded like she had to pause to either think about where she was, or to hold a fist in front of her mouth for a silent burp or something. That unit went back and by that time the 765t was out. A swap plus $100 later, I had the new unit. Pros over the 780: much faster screen redraws, faster sat acquisition, more POIs, slight user interface tweaks (all for the better IMO) and generally a tighter feel. Cons: ad supported traffic (doesn't bother me, but it might others) and no included MSN Direct. However, after using the service for 2 weeks, I would gladly trade it for faster screen redraws and the lane assist feature. Movie times and gas prices are nice, but until I can actually make my movie and dinner reservations over the GPS, I'll forgo it. The bluetooth functionality gives me the direct-to-POI dial feature, which is so utterly cool. I just moved to the Seattle area and would be so utterly lost without this gadget. It takes the stress out of driving, and that alone is worth the hefty price.
Nuvi 765T Observations December 18, 2008
Tony Neetz (Tinley Park, IL USA)
75 out of 76 found this review helpful
After waiting a long time to buy a GPS and reading many, many reviews while watching the prices go up and down, I finally pulled the trigger on a Nuvi 765T on Thanksgiving morning when I saw the price drop to $349.00 on Amazon with free shipping. I couldn't believe my eyes when I saw the price and couldn't buy it fast enough. Especially since at the time, the lowest price I had seen was around $460. Although it had the features I wanted, I had some reservations about getting the 765T because of several reviews that listed problems with the screen, speaker volume, bluetooth, missing features from the 760, etc. So after putting it though its paces for a few weeks I would like to share my observations with this unit. First off I have to say I couldn't be more happy with my purchase. In the past I had used the Nuvi 350, and several different TomTom's as well as rental car units, and this unit blows them away. The first thing I did was to up update the firmware to v.2.50 and had no problems in doing so.
Screen: The screen on the unit I received is very bright and clear. The colors look great and it is just as bright as the Nuvi 350 I had used. The sensitivity on this screen is fine and there is no problem with the calibration for buttons, etc.
Sound Quality: The sound from the speaker is very good on this unit. Could it be louder? Sure. But in normal driving with the radio at regular listening volume and /or the windows open, I have no trouble hearing it at all when set to 100%. When driving without the radio, I actually turn it down to 80% as it is too much. The navigation voice (have tried several and like Australian Karen) at 100% is clean with no distortion. From some of the reviews I had read, I was expecting to have to hold it up to my ear to hear it, but it really is fine.
Bluetooth: This was one of the things I was worried about not working, but surprisingly the Nuvi immediately paired with both my, and my wife's older Sanyo Katana phones. It also shows the phone books and the contact names for both phones. In making calls over the Nuvi, the people I have called state that the voice quality is fine and there is no echo or distortion. Although I don't use my cell phone a lot, when I do, its great not having to hold the phone and drive at the same time. Very happy with this feature.
Traffic: I was really surprised on how accurate the traffic feature on this unit has been so far, as I wasn't really expecting much. Perhaps the coverage is better in the Chicagoland area then other areas, but it has accurately shown where there were slow downs and congestion ahead on I-90/94, I-57 and I-355. The "ads" for the free traffic pop up from time to time, but I rarely notice them and they certainly are not in the way or distracting at all.
Routing: So far, with one exception, the routing has been really spot-on. The navigation has brought us to our unknown destination with no problems, and takes the routs I would normally take for the places I am familiar with. It even knew that our home street is divided by a drainage ditch and instructed me to go past our house and make the correct two left turns to get into our driveway when arriving on the opposite side of the street. This really surprised me! It did one strange thing though, when driving home from Chicago going south down the Dan Ryan expressway, I need to eventually merge west onto I-57 south, and for some reason, the Nuvi kept telling me to get on the Indiana toll road and go east, which would have taken me miles way out of my way. I should have brought up the turn list to see where it was going to take me, but I was in heavy traffic with bad weather and needed to keep my eyes on the road. Once I passed the exit for the Indiana toll road it "recalculated" and took me home perfectly. The only thing I could think of was that I had "Avoid Traffic" enabled and there was some heavy traffic on I-57 ahead which it may have been trying to avoid, but I'm not sure. I will turn off the "Avoid Traffic" feature and try it again the next time I travel that way.
Other Features: I love the Lane Assist, and the Junction View has come up many times in the Chicago area which is a big help. I have not tried the FM transmitter yet which a lot of people complain about not working well. The picture viewer is nice and I have loaded some pictures on it and taken it to friends houses and used it to show them vacation pictures. Since my car radio plays MP3's I don't have much use for the MP3 player as of yet but will try it out in the future. I loaded several POIs for various places and they work great too; giving both audio and visual prompts within set distances of the POIs.
I could go on and on, but those are the main things I wanted to share. I had read about some early complaints with this unit, especially with the pre v2.50 update, so perhaps I just go lucky with this unit, but so far I could not be happier with it!
Excellent - Upgraded from 670 to 765T February 6, 2009
Daniel G. Lebryk
67 out of 68 found this review helpful
My son needed a GPS, so it was either buy him an inexpensive GPS (like the Nuvi 200 series) or give him my old unit and get myself a new one. Well the choice was made very easy with this 765T, especially falling into the sale of the century in November, 2008.
The feature set of this GPS have been reviewed all over the place. There's two things I'd like to do in this review, comment on lane guidance and compare this unit to the 670.
Lane guidance or intersection help. There's a ton of misinformation around about this feature. Almost everyone that rates this unit a 1 star or worse and complains about the guidance just doesn't understand how it works. There's two indicators for helping you determine which lane to use for your next exit.
A little tiny box in the upper left hand corner appears with vertical arrows. The number of arrows corresponds to the number of lanes. The bold arrow is the lane you should be in to make the exit. It's pretty darn simple and effective. In fact in Toronto, those arrows were a life saver and were very accurate - four arrows, right three were where I needed to be for the exit.
The second view is with the big old exit signs like you see on the picture for this GPS. This is the thing that has upset so many people. Those signs are only available in certain areas, mostly heavily travelled metropolitan areas. When they appear they work more wonderfully than you can ever imagine. They also don't appear until pretty close to the exit. I've seen them several times now in the past month. The best example was in Toronto, early in the trip the real signs were in green, and sure enough the Nuvi showed green signs. The lane view, and arrow view were spot on perfect. Further down the highway, the real signs changed to blue, and sure enough the Nuvi displayed blue signs. The wording and look is virtually identical to the signs on the road. It doesn't get easier to follow this kind of view. The sign view also appeared very briefly on the Indiana Tollway.
So any review you read about that function not working is a hooey. It absolutely works, but only in certain areas and where it is necessary.
Comparison to the previous generation Nuvi's, specifically the 6X0 series. This new model is probably 1/2 the thickness of my 670, or it feels much thinner. There is no fold out antenna, a good thing. The plastic they used on the 765T is amazing, it sort of has that almost soft rubbery / satiny finish. The unit feels very well built and solid, like it's worth the price you paid. The 670 felt a bit cheap to me, not nearly as refined or like an $800 (at the time) device. The power button is not good at all on the 765T, it's too easy to hit and turn the unit on or off. I liked the old style much better. The power clip on the back is very well constructed, the unit snaps in nice and firm. The same old friction mount (the bean bag thing) works exactly the same on this unit. Dec 12, 2009 update - this is a much better mount Garmin Portable Friction Dashboard Mount for somebody that travels on planes to a car. This one folds nice and flat.
Software-wise, Garmin still has a ways to go on user interface. Although you start with find a location and settings in big icons, it's still not totally 100% clear what you should press to do what you want. I find myself still pretty lost in the settings menus (those icons really don't sing to me at all). It's not intuitive on how to change from fastest route to use highways, etc. Aside from the lane change stuff, Garmin did make the display really nice. They made the icons much smaller and cleaned up the actual navigation display. Instead of this long bar across the bottom, you now get smaller ovals of information. They added a Speed Limit sign where that information is available (very nice touch). If there is no speed limit, the unit displays your current speed. Zoom and rotate are much easier to use and more intuitive. They dropped the ability to see the GPS satellite strength (I miss that). And the touch screen sometimes has a mind of its own, the bottom row is particularly badly aligned. Fortunately you don't have to touch the screen much. Dec 12, 2009 update - there is a secret undocumented way of seeing the satellite data, touch your finger to the satellite strength indicator and hold for about 10 or 15 seconds. Satellite data along with lat/log, speed, and altitude show up (thanks John in the comments for reminding me).
Satellite reception, I don't really see an incredible improvement over the previous Nuvi's. Technically it may be better and faster, but practically I don't really see a difference. It still can't pick up satellites and momentarily gets lost around high concentrations of tall buildings. But I think that is inhernet in these GPS systems. Garmin hasn't improved the choice of routes over older units (I still wonder why she picks certain routes). You can add more destinations to your trip now.
They did add a cute feature, 3-D building view to certain cities. Chicago has a good number of buildings, and it looks cool. They managed to incorporate the 3-D without imparing map reading.
I also really like the where am I function. There seems to be more restaurants and points of interest displayed than my old Nuvi. Traffic information is identical on both units (no surprise there, they get the information from the same source). I haven't seen a single ad yet with the traffic information, thank you Garmin.
On this unit, Europe is reduced to virtually a topo map with only MAJOR roads on it. For Paris, the Peripherique is the only road displayed inside the city, with spokes of the A level highways (A1, A4, et al). You could never ever navigate Europe with this poor base map. You can very easily add the European Garmin map set to this device, there's plenty of space in memory.
Overall, a great small, tidy package, with nice software upgrades. I'm happy I purchased this GPS. If you are happy with your 6 or 3 series Nuvi, none of these features are worth the upgrade cost. If you can justify moving your 6 or 3 to somebody else, this is the unit to purchase.
July 8, 2009 update. There is an excellent tips and tricks website that has hundreds of ways to use your Nuvi better. In your favorite search engine type in nuvi tips and tricks. The first hit will be this very ugly huge website. Start reading, you will be very glad you did.
Dec. 12, 2009 update. Something really evil started happening with my original unit, the battery life was down to 15 minutes on a full charge (Garmin support asked me to do a bunch of discharges and recharges to troubleshoot the battery). And on one trip the unit failed to ever find satellites. After an hour of searching, I finally shook the thing updside down, smacked it a few times, and it started working. An email to Garmin, a day later an RMA number appeared. Shipped the old unit back and a remanufactured unit arrived about 4 days later. This new one works so much better. I think my old one might have been defective all along. If you have to do this there are instructions for transferring your favorites and old maps to the new unit. Remember to back that stuff up.
On software - if you plan on doing the map update even once, purchase nuMpas Lifetime North America - Garmin nüMaps Lifetime North America Map Updates. The lifetime subscription is just about the same price as a single update. And Amazon is absolutely the place to buy this subscription, it's way cheaper than direct from Garmin.
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