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| Garmin nüvi 750 4.3-Inch Widescreen Portable GPS Navigator | 
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| Brand: Garmin
Category: CE
List Price: $499.99
Buy Refurbished: $184.49
You Save: $315.50 (63%)
New (95) Used (7) Refurbished (13)
Avg. Customer Rating:  193 reviews
Sales Rank: 179
Format: Cd
Platform: Windows
Color: silver
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): 9 x 3.5 x 12
nv:Type: Receiver
Waypoints: 500
Route Capacity: 10
Display: Color
Display: TFT
Touch Screen: Yes
Voice: Yes
Expansion Slots: SD Card
Battery Type: Rechargeable Lithium Ion Battery
Battery Life: 5 hours
Legal Disclaimer: Warranty does not cover misuse of product.
MPN: 010-00657-20
Model: 010-00657-20
UPC: 753759072445
EAN: 0753759072445
ASIN: B000UXDFN6
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Customer Reviews:
 Good unit but short on features October 21, 2008
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
I have used Garmin hand-held and automotive products for the last five years and I must say that I am disappointed with the Garmin Nuvi 750. The hardware on the unit is first rate and it appears that Garmin has fixed the problems with satellite reception that the other reviewers have complained about. However, Garmin has taken a step backwards with their latest software.
Garmin has attempted to make the unit easy to use at the cost of reduced flexibility and functionality. The user can no longer define a region on a map to avoid areas or roads that are under construction or hazardous. If you have a bridge near you that is under construction but still on the Garmin maps, the software will route you to that bridge over and over again. The user has also lost the functionality to customize the map display. For example, you can no longer display the speed of your car on the map.
The Nuvi is a decent unit, but I will strongly consider other manufacturers for my next GPS purchase.
 Pleased with purchase! October 19, 2008
I originally was going to purchase one of the lower model Garmin's, but I really wanted some of the features on the 750, I especially liked the fact that it did not require a flip up antenna. I'm very pleased I spent a little more and got the better unit, the features are great, the unit itself is very slick and the controls are intuitive. The one fault I found with the unit is the Fm transmitter, it is basically useless. I was unable to get anything that could be considered audible to play though my speakers in the car on any station, (I use an FM tuner on my iPod and it is great, get clear sound all over town), but that really seems like a dumb add on feature anyway and is obviously a very low wattage tuner. Overall though this product is well worth the money and I would recommend it to anyone looking for a GPS.
I Love My Nuvi 750 October 16, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
This is one smart little box. It has a lot of information just on one page. The map page shows you the speed limit of the road you are on. This is a feature I like, because speed limits are always changing. It tells you how far it is to your next turn. It has a bright display for day and night and the screen is large. You can park your car somewhere and when you are ready to go back, it will lead you right to it. The female voice tells you the approximate arrival time. It tells you the names of the streets to turn on, not just to turn right ahead. Of course, you can program any voice man or woman in any language.
It does not have bluetooth, so that doesn't matter to me, because I do not use it. You can down load music and play it over your car speakers. I like this feature very much. The satellites come on fast enough for me.
This is my first GPS unit I have purchased, and hope it will be my last.
I bought this unit to get me from A to B, and it has not let me down. All the other bells and whistles on it are nice. Just as soon as I figure them out, I'm sure I will like it even more.
Geez, whaddaya want from a microchip?! October 14, 2008
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
Reading the reviews here, I hesitate to offer my plebian opinions, but hey, I'm an American female and we are, de facto, opinionated. I have one of the old 330Cs--in its last incarnation before going out of production in favor of the nuvi's. It's GPS I own, I might add (how many does one need?!) and does its job very well. I live in a very remote area of the southern US, out of reach of DSL, out of reach of decent land line phone service, cable TV-- and a little over 20 miles from the nearest town of any size. When I got my 330C, about a year ago, it happened to be on sale for $175. I made sure I could return it, then took it home. I sat in the car and waited for it to 'find' me in my driveway. Took about 15 minutes, but it finally tuned in. This compares favorably with Google, which can't find my location unless I happen to know my longitude and lattitude (and I don't).
I drive over a 3500 square mile territory surrounded and interlaces with a lot of water. It's rural--not the best testing ground for GPS navigators. I find it does about as well as Mapquest, and can sometimes find how to take me where I want to go, even when I input the address and it says I can't get there from here. It is easily confused in watery areas--swamps, peninsulas, watersheds, etc. It works best in cities. I find it to be worth the price twice over, because I don't possess a viable sense of direction. If I had it to do over, I probably would have realized I was getting a late model prototype gone out of production and waited to purchase the next version. But the 330C still works and works well. It might be nice to have the kind that speaks street names, but that's not essential because Garmin backs up its spoken directives with text details which spell out route names and street names. This feature makes it fairly popular with hard of hearing and deaf drivers. I find the 750's 'where am I' and 'where's my car' an interesting feature. If and when my unit dies, I will enjoy a flat screen version that's pocketable. I would also like a more stable mounting system. This one works well, for a short time. As for being updatable? It isn't. Order the maps updates and you wait and wait and wait. Install them and there's little difference. The maps are the same.
I have friends who bought other Garmin knock-offs, and find them to be unreliable. This is not cheap, but the cheaper versions are not worth the bargain price when they fail. And they do fail. My advice? As in any other purchase, get the best you can afford, and resist the temptation to get a 'deal' of some weird name knock-off. In this case generic is not comparable with the brand name product.
routing questionable October 14, 2008
When my tomtom was stolen 1 year ago I bought the garmin nuvi 750 because at the time(before tomtom iq routing)garmin was supposed to have the best north american routing.While it does often pick shorter routes,it does it by using a lot of secondary roads when for a few miles more a route using better roads(interstates,good divided highways ext)may be available.I like the garmin routing for short trips but for longer trips I perfered most of the TomTom routes.
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