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Garmin Nuvi 760 Satellite Navigation System | 
 enlarge | Brand: Garmin
Category: CE
Buy New: £198.00
New (8) Used (1) from £192.99
Rating:  18 reviews
Sales Rank: 529
Media: Electronics
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.5
Dimensions (in): 6.5 x 6.4 x 3.4
MPN: 010-00657-15
Model: 010-00657-15
UPC: 753759075071
EAN: 0753759075071
ASIN: B000Z2UHIS
Release Date: December 6, 2007
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | super-bright 4.3" widescreen display with easy use touchscreen | | • | POI lookup and MP3/audio book playback | | • | Bluetooth with Hands-free calls | | • | Pre-loaded with Europe mapping | | • | Compatible with RoadTour Heritage and Pubs & Inns |
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| Customer Reviews: Read 13 more reviews...
 Nice try - but flawed and needs some work.... August 13, 2008
D Wilson (UK)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I'm used to having a unit built-in to the car, but I wanted a SatNav for European & UK touring - contenders were Garmin Nuvi 760T, and its TomTom and viaMichelin equivalents. ViaMichelin went out of the SatNav business, so it was the (cheaper)Garmin. Once out of its box and charged, it needs to be connected to the internet and registered before you can do any updates or download speed camera data. It wouldn't talk to the Garmin website (talks to the PC ok), so on to tech support.... "Sometimes the registration software is flaky. I'll do it manually for you" Hmmm. Get an email telling me that its registered. Website says its not. Several times, over a couple of days. It's gone back for a refund.
A pity, as the graphics and menu layout are nice & clear, (although the menus are irritatingly idiosyncratic). No manual in the box, just a quickstart guide, so you have to download it. Deals correctly with full UK postcodes, but not rural French ones - it demands a street name instead of being able to enter the code, select the village and go to the area. (Hangover from US design?) The free 1 month trial of speed (sorry, "safety") camera data only covers the UK; thereafter you have to buy a subscription (at 20 per year) for each area of coverage - France, UK, Benelux, etc. Traffic info is free, though. Voice instructions are clear - didn't try the "FM broadcast through your car radio" feature as you can't listen to broadcast radio at the same time, just mp3 content you've preloaded to the Garmin.
Summary:
If it had worked properly, I would have been pleased with it in spite of the irritating design niggles. It didn't. At that price, it should have, and I didn't have the patience to do their development work for them. It's gone back.
 Don't bother August 7, 2008
M. Campbell (uk)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is my first Sat Nav, and from this experience it will be the last.
Having spent hours reading through the reviews I decided on the Garmin 760, as opposed to the equivalent Tom Tom.
It has no idea where you are in order to set off, fails to see junctions,
wrong exits at roundabouts, it takes you round and round in circles at roadworks, and in particular in Sheffield city centre it insisted on
going round and round in traffic leaving you totally grid locked and stranded.
On the same day in another town when entering the destination in Tesco car park, it insisted on me driving through the adjoining houses in
order to get on to the road it wanted me to be on. When I did get on to the road the GPS, had no idea where I was and it took at least 3 minutes
before it was able to recalculate.
So from my experience of using this piece of equipment, all I can say is
it must be able to be programmed better in different parts of the country.
So if you are not a person who wants to be using all the electronic
Gizmos through it, save your money dont bother and use the old
fashioned Atlas.
 Great item, but warning over 'buy together' option July 24, 2008
Ms. K. F. Young (UK)
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
I have only had this satnav a short while, but have found it extremely straightforward to use and set up. Particularly the phone functions and FM transmitter.
On the phone functions there are a lot of neat tools, like being able to phone points of interest, such as restaurants and hotels. Also you can assign numbers to your favourite locations and phone them using the touch screen. The screen is excellent and the unit seems to pick up signal and recalculate routes very quickly.
One point against amazon though.... they offered this together with a leather carry case, which I went for only to discover an identical carry case was included in the Garmin box anyway...
 Great unit ruined by appalling reliability July 22, 2008
Robsteriark (London, England)
19 out of 19 found this review helpful
I've never seen the need for a SatNav before but as my wife and I are shortly going to be driving across Europe for our holidays decided to finally get one.
After much research I ordered the Nuvi 760 as it ticked all the boxes: superb European street-level maps, easy to use, accurate navigation, a last-position marker to help find where the car is parked (my wife has a non-existent sense of direction!), spoken street names, free lifetime traffic updates for the UK and France, and FM transmission so that I could use my radio to listen to the directions at higher listening volume.
Initial impressions were good although the instructions were extremely poor. Luckily it's not difficult to use and a little web-research gives all the info needed to access the less-obvious functions. Garmin do offer a downloadable user-manual but it still leaves a great deal out, sadly this is not at all unusual these days.
My first disappointment was the FM transmission facility; it needs a clear frequency to work, but in London there are none left across the entire waveband. All either have existing stations or interference from them. Luckily, the unit volume at maximum proved loud enough for my noisy car (an old Citroen 2cv) even with the roof rolled back and I can always use headphones to listen if I'm at motorway speeds. As an aside, one of the useful features not mentioned in any of the documentation is that the headphone socket can be set to "line out" mode for wired connection to a suitable external amp or car stereo. It's only available through one of the screens in the hidden diagnostic menu though!
The second disappointment is the traffic receiver; this is built into the 12v power adapter and has a long antenna which needs to be stuck to the windscreen, the adaptor lead then plugs into the suction-cup cradle. The troubles with this is twofold: I have to remove the cradle from the car every time I park to avoid advertising the unit to thieves. As the traffic receiver can be fitted to lesser models it also is attractive to thieves so I have to take that from the car each time too, but the suction cups which hold the antenna lead in place are very tenacious. When I return to the car I have to fit the cradle to the screen, plug in the adaptor/traffic receiver and then painstakingly re-fit the antenna to the screen. It's a shame that the receiver isn't built in to the SatNav unit itself, and that the antenna wire can't be unplugged from the receiver. The antenna is only a cheap bit of unbranded wire and otherwise could be fitted discreetly enough not to be noticed by thieves.
In use, the unit is excellent. It acquires and holds on to a signal quickly even amongst tall buildings, the display is clear and bright and only shows what you need to know when you need to know it. Routing is generally excellent too, but I did find it annoying that for a route from London to Spain it insisted that Eurotunnel was the only option. There was no way I could alter it to take the Dover to Boulogne ferry route. In practise, it's a minor point as whichever entry point I use to France will result in the unit recalculating the most efficient route automatically. The unit does recalculate very quickly, too. The traffic updates are the icing on the cake; it's one thing for a SatNav to simply churn out a route, but in London it's essential to be able to avoid the worst traffic from the start and a long (and dreaded) journey across the busiest part of the city during rush hour cut my journey time by half at the expense of a few worthwhile extra miles. I'd never now buy any Satnav without this feature.
The 760 allows you to set it to suit you as a motorist, cyclist or pedestrian, but it has no options to suit truck or bus drivers who are going to need to be able to avoid unsuitable roads and overhead hazards. Other SatNavs are available for professional drivers anyway, so it's not a major issue. It also allows the user to avoid ferries, tolls, traffic and main roads. Going back to my earlier comment, I wish it allowed me to avoid Eurotunnel as well.
The supplied protective case is a joke. It's OK as a freebie, but it has a permanently open end and care has to be taken inserting the 760 into the case as it will turn the unit back on if you're not careful. There's also no belt loop/clip and no way to operate the unit with the case on (like with some mobile phone cases). A cheapie neoprene zippered case would be preferable to the "leather" (actually leatherboard and leather-cloth) one supplied.
Finally, the major fly in the ointment. Up till now I'd be considering 4 stars but the first 760 I was sent would unpredictably turn itself off, sometimes in mid route. Software and firmware updates did not cure it nor did a system reset. Amazon were very efficient in sending another one out immediately, but it had the same fault to a lesser degree. I arranged to return it for a refund but yesterday morning changed my mind as it seemed to have stabilised and I didn't want to wait around for delivery/collection again. Unfortunately, it died completely later the same day and is being collected later today. Looking on the internet, I saw only one other report of a 760 unexpectedly turning off and no references to total failure so I've no reason to suggest the fault is widespread. The two units have serial numbers only a few digits apart so may be from a faulty batch, but nevertheless it does suggest a failure in Garmin's quality control.
I've now ordered a Nuvi 770: exactly the same as the 760 but includes North American mapping as well. It has a larger internal memory too and this means it will be from a different production batch so I'm reasoning that it's far less likely to be faulty. Note that the larger memory is purely for the additional mapping, it will not make the unit work faster or better.
Third time lucky? Fingers crossed...
Fantastic Amazon service and Nuvi GPS June 3, 2008
M. Al-Braithen (Manchester, UK)
10 out of 13 found this review helpful
I have spent 5 days in reviewing different web sites and contacting vendors in order to make a comparison to opt the optimal GPS. Finally, I decided to go with Garmin Nuvi 760 and without any doubt it was the right decision.
It took me from Manchester to Oban (Scotland) once I opend the box without doing any preparation except uploading some MP3 songs.
Really, it was an excellent device.
If any body ask me about which GPS to buy, I would immidatley say Garmin 760.
Note: only small point that I have to mention. During my trip to scotland, I have found some differences between what 760 tell me and the real situation. I think I may need to download the latest map. Anyway, I have contacted Garmin and been waiting their reply.
With Garmin 760, you will enjoy your trip. ;-)
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