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| Garmin nüvi 760 4.3-Inch Widescreen Bluetooth Portable GPS Automobile Navigator | 
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| Brand: Garmin
Category: CE
List Price: $599.99
Buy New: $249.99
You Save: $350.00 (58%)
New (88) Used (8) Refurbished (8)
Avg. Customer Rating:  340 reviews
Sales Rank: 2
Color: Gray
Media: Electronics
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: Yes
Native Resolution: 480 x 272
Display Size: 4.3
Includes MP3 Player: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3
Dimensions (in): 4.8 x 0.8 x 2.8
Legal Disclaimer: Warranty does not cover misuse of product.
MPN: Nuvi 760
Model: Nuvi 760
UPC: 753759072391
EAN: 0753759072391
ASIN: B000UX9YJ0
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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| Customer Reviews:
 Garmin Nuvi 760 September 5, 2008
I recently purchase the Garmin 760 GPS found it very easy to used. Great for finding new locations and with thousands POI finding local resturants is a breeze. The best option is the real time traffic reporting, this GPS notifies me abput traffic backup location on by daily commute and alternative ways to get around the jams. A real time saver..
excelent product best GPS for car September 5, 2008
I purchased this unit after a very disappointing experience with the TomTom 720, which couldn't even locate my 1978-vintage house and suggested some odd routes (see my TomTom 720 review). The Garmin Nuvi 760 found my house, suggested eactly the routes I usually take on my test trips and does SO much more very, very well.
The interface in general is very easy - the go to interface has 6 million points of interest. It had every restaurant that came to mind for my look-up test. Some rather new. Wow.
The screen is very crisp and clear. The bluetooth was no problem to set up with my Blackberry 8703e (Sprint) and now all the points of interest are that much more useful with phone numbers / call options for each.
It has great setting features - like being able to go from an "ABC" key layout to QWERTY, or selecting from an "automobile", "bicycle", or "pedestrian" mode - very handy.
It also adds a great direct "where am I" feature that gives your position at the touch of a button and then lists all the emergency service links (police, fire, hospital) on the side (you can also see those through the POI list).
It had multi-segment trip ability AND simulated GPS run through of a route - so it takes you through a route as if you were driving it, when you're really just at the kitchen table.
Okay, so great features that so far seem to be executed well, but I don't want those to take away from what really impressed me about the unit the most: very accurate and great routing - which after all are the key GPS functions and ones which at least the other company I tried seemed to miss on.
Garmin 760 September 4, 2008
Good piece of equipment. Initially, I did have a problem when trying to activate the integrated FM receiver, but it's now working and is absolutely great! Once the three month free trail has expired I will most definitely become a subscriber.
The Bluetooth is good (hands free are law now in CA) the overall reception is okay but not perfect.
I brought the dashboard mount as the suction cup is illegal in CA, besides which is a devil to remove, this thing does not move even when making a harsh cornering maneuver.
Overall I would not hesitate in recommending this unit, price and delivery from Amazon was first class.
 Garmin is cheap, Amazon is now evil September 2, 2008
9 out of 19 found this review helpful
My step-son ordered the nuvi 760 as a gift for my wife's birthday at the beginning of September. We were about to meet him in Alaska for Summer tours of Denali, Prince William Sound, Anchorage, and other places. We reasonably expected to use the Garmin during the trip. Nope....
It arrived with the tip of the combination car power cord/traffic receiver broken off. The shell of this critical part is made of flimsy, inferior plastic, is less than 1/16" thick, and broke off at some point while lying in the package from the pressure exerted by the fuse spring. If that isn't despicable enough for an indispensable part of a nearly $400 appliance, Garmin has since told us that a replacement for the power cord/receiver costs about $240!!!!
I have been buying things from Amazon for years, and I have occasionally had problems with a vendor. I have always been able to depend on Amazon's customer service to promptly handle these problems, and replace defective merchandise quickly.
WHEN DID AMAZON TURN TO EVIL?!
Since we are in Texas, where the unit was shipped for my wife's birthday, and the step-son is in Alaska, I went to the Amazon return page, and completed the process to return the defective unit through the "received as a gift" option. I got a return authorization and shipping label. While I was preparing to return the defective package, I got an email from an Amazon representative, saying that he had cancelled my return, because the original purchase did not appear under my email address! I couldn't return the gift, he basically said, because I hadn't ordered it myself---"received as a gift" apparently wasn't on his instruction card...As if this wasn't infuriating enough, he communicated this to me via a no-response email address, so I couldn't directly respond to explain this.
The step-son in Alaska next arranged, using his email address, to obtain a replacement unit and have the defective one shipped back via UPS later, since we were scheduled to leave for Alaska in a couple of days. He received a return authorization and a printable shipping label. We expected to return from our trip in about 10 days and find the house-sitters had found the replacement from UPS and taken it inside.
WRONG! It was obviously never shipped....I guess we should have asked for a tracking number, but we were busy, and didn't expect this from Amazon.
He called and finally got through to somebody at Amazon by phone (for those of you scoring along at home, this will be the THIRD time they will agree to ship the replacement and provide shipping for the return). Amazon told him they would ship the replacement to us and get UPS to pick up the package, which, again, they obviously never did. This was last week, before the holiday weekend, and I believe the last few days of our 30 day return period to send the unit directly back to Amazon, which I'm guessing was their intention all along. There is no tracking number, no explanation, and no evidence that Amazon actually shipped the replacement unit, or ever intends to.
After two angry emails using their well-concealed contact page, I finally got a response from another representative, which I will quote so that no one thinks I'm making this up:
"Thank you for contacting Amazon.com regarding this matter.
I've researched your account; it appears that one of my colleagues has already resolved this issue creating replacement order for the defective item which you received as gift. I do apologize for the delay in responding to your e-mail inquiry."
Whether it will ever be possible to obtain a replacement or refund from Garmin for the busted part is to-be-determined. But Amazon won't be getting another chance to let us down.
As for the Garmin, I did manage to test the GPS itself, after charging from a USB port, and found that it performed basic functions and linked to a satellite with several bars from my living room. Note that Garmin is so cheap that they won't include a $3 wall cube charger with this nearly $400 piece of equipment. I've already expressed my opinion of the $240 power cord/receiver.
While on our trip, we used my brother-in-law's Garmin---I think it was the somewhat bulkier 660---mostly around Anchorage, since Alaska has about six contiguous roads outside of cities that go anywhere. It worked okay, except that it fell off the windshield at least twice. The giant suction cup isn't especially reliable.
I'm not completely sure that I wouldn't have been far happier printing off maps from Google and MapQuest. Since I currently can't use the GPS in the car except while the >non-replaceable< battery holds up, I probably won't have any choice.
UPDATE (8-6):
The day after I wrote this, I got an email from Amazon, saying that the replacement had been shipped (this time, with a tracking no.), and that I needed to realize that it would take several days to arrive. UPS tracking data showed that they picked up the package last Sunday, almost a week after they agreed for the third time to send the replacemnent. The replacement arrived intact, and gift wrapped---whereupon I realized that the original shipment wasn't gift wrapped, although it had been ordered as a gift. I guess I will have to re-rate Amazon as only kind of evil....
I have tested out the nuvi 760 locally, with only one glitch, and a wrong street name. When I couldn't find the software to make routes from the PC and load them to the GPS, a Garmin representative promptly answered my questions by email, and shipped me the installation disk---although it's a mystery to me why it wasn't included in the package to begin with.
Garmin 660 is similar to garmin 760 September 1, 2008
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
Garmin 660 has almost the same features as Garmin 760, except it does not have the multipoint feature and the msn feature. Garmin 660 is under $300. I have a 760 but I think the msn feature is not essential.
found other sellers selling the same model for lower price with free shipping. waiting for amazon.com to lower the price of this model to match other seller's price.
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