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Garmin Nüvi 750
Price: $167.90
The refurbished Garmin Nüvi750 is a solid navigation system that provides Garmin’s superior routing and mapping system at a significantly reduced price when compared to the refurbished Garmin Nüvi 760. The reduced price does come at the expense of some features, such as bluetooth and various traffic features – but those are only going to be utilized by a small subset of the GPS using public anyway. For the price, this device is going to offer you a higher end navigation experience at a reasonable price; and the reasonableness of the price increases when you go refurbished!
Like almost all portable navigation systems these days, the refurbished Garmin Nüvi 750 is going to have text-to-speech functionality that is going to help you keep your eyes off your GPS and on the road in front of you. This feature is useful on roads that you know, but extremely useful when traveling in regions that you are not familiar with. While Garmin does not support as many languages as TomTom does, they still offer a wide selection of languages and voices for this functionality.
Other important features on the Nüvi 750 include a built-in transmitter, millions of POIs (Points of Interest), and a wide screen for easy viewing. It also comes with an FM transmitter, but these are notoriously underpowered and need to be constantly tweaked in order to get the text-to-speech instructions blasting out of your car speakers. This is a great feature in principal, since navigation GPS devices generally have underpowered speakers as well, but in practice it falls short of its potential.
The Nüvi 750’s routing engine is exactly the same as some of the more expensive Nüvi models (760 and 780), giving it the ability to choose the same routs as these more expensive models. It also shares the ability to have multi-destination routing with these higher end automotive units. This means that a user can optimize (sort) their stops by distance, making their driving more efficient and saving money on fuel expenses. The Nüvi 750 will also display known speed limits on the map screen, provide tracklog support, and contains the awesome “Where Am I?” and “Where did I park?” feature. While it doesn’t have everything these higher end models do, it still is a very full featured GPS unit.
There are a few points for improvement with this and other GPS units in the Nüvi series. We have already mentioned the woefully inadequate FM transmitter, but there is more. POI searching can be slow, especially slow for those of us accustom to the lighting fast searching of Google. Another problem is that you cannot exclude a specific road from a planned route. This can make avoiding trouble spots in the height of traffic impossible with your GPS. Also, there is something to be desire in the look and feel of the case design. The plastic seems a little light weight compared to the more expensive 760 and 780 and the designers traded in convenience of mounting the device for signal sensitivity by removing the fold-out style antenna.*
* Garmin has compensated for this by issuing a free firmware update that brings SiRF’s InstantFixII to the Nüvi 750, which actually improves reception beyond the nuvi 650’s capability.
When you get down to it, the refurbished Garmin Nüvi 750 provides a great GPS experience in the long tradition of Garmin GPSs. The navigation is of the highest quality, the user interface smooth and intuitive, and the maps as accurate as they come. While this device isn’t going to meet the needs of everyone, it does provide a solid GPS experience for users of all levels.
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