Garmin nuvi 760 review

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February 23, 2008

Posted by: Schmokky

"Does what it says on the box"

What I like:

bright screen, simple i'face, FM tramsmitter, MP3,

What I don't like:

Speed camera warning gongs which you can't control

Review:

Solid, unobtrusive device, easy to use. I live in Holland and the English TTS of Dutch street names keeps us all thoroughly amused.

A small gripe is that the system (but I don't know if that's the map data or the software) doesn't know much about priority or "natural" routes through areas where all the streets have the same "value" e.g they are all 30mph streets. For instance, when following a street which is the pincipal through road (so all the adjoining streets have to give way and have speed bumps etc in them) the device will still take you through the all small side-streets because it's shorter. The worst case when turning right at a (UK) roundabout. The device told me to cross the road just before the roundabout, turn left to follow the tiny road parallel to the roundabout and then cross the road again after having made the 90 degree turn. Distance saved 30 yards.

But the most annoying is the speed camera warning. I don't always obey the speed limits and this was supposed to help me pinpoint where the speed cams were. What actually happens is this.
Fixed speed cam: Bong, another bong and a camera icon and finally another bong when you get to the camera location...whch might be 50 metres out.
"Mobile" speed cams, as the system calls them: Someone, once saw a mobile unit somewhere around there so you get bong, bong, bong until you either slow doen to below the speed limit or until you've left the mile-long stretch where these things were once seen. On several stretches of the M4 there were obviously, at some point, roadworks with a 40mph temporary limit but they were all in the POI database so I had to turn the volume down to stop me going mad
"Average" speed cams: Just as bad as many of these are temporary too. I wouldn't mind if it actually calculated my average speed it doesn't. As soon as the instantaneous speed reaches the max for that stretch it's bong, bong, bong again.
I would really like to have a button that means "OK, I heard you, you can stop bonging until the next camera comes along"

Still, I can't fault the unit on any other count. The screen is just much better than TomTom in ANY light conditions and the GPS is very fast. Surprisingly the best bit is being able to play MP3 audiobooks through the car's speakers with just the odd interruption for navigation instructions.....and that damned "bong".