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| Brand: Garmin
Category: CE
List Price: $499.99
Buy Refurbished: $180.90
You Save: $319.09 (64%)
New (93) Used (5) Refurbished (13) from $180.90
Rating:  194 reviews
Sales Rank: 126
Format: Cd
Platform: Windows
Color: silver
Media: Electronics
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: Yes
Operating System: Windows
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
Shipping: Expedited shipping available
Condition: FActory refurbished with a one year warranty, all accessories are included, Sorry but NO APO, FPO shipping
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| Customer Reviews:
Excellent product November 2, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I've only had the nuvi 750 a little over a month and I haven't had the opportunity to use it on a long trip yet but I am very happy with it...for the most part. I have had three other GPS navigators, two Magellan and one Garmin C330 bought as an emergency back-up for a malfunctioning Magellan Roadmate. It was the cheapest thing I could find on short notice (old maps, slow response time) but it got me home flawlessly. So, when the Roadmate finally died after just two years and no help from Magellan, I did some homework and bought the Garmin nuvi 750 for its features.
My experience so far has been that it boots up quickly, locks on satellites quickly, and calculates routes as quickly as the fastest of my other navigators. It has by far the clearest, brightest, most readable screen (under all conditions) of any I've owned or used. One of the features I like is the speed limit display, on a long drive I'm focused on the driving and will suddenly realize I haven't seen a speed limit sign in a while,... question answered.
Touch "Menu" then "Tools" and among the menu options is "Where am I", it displays your current latitude and longitude, the name and location of the nearest cross street, and lists available emergency services. To me, that's worth the price all by itself.
The routes are accurate and, as far as I can tell, efficient. Unlike some comments, I don't worry about whether the route is the shortest, fastest, most efficient possible. It will never be as good as a knowledgeable human being. The point is, it gets me there and I'm not exhausted as I would be if I had to navigate from maps. The nuvi 750 is a major step up from all of the other GPS' I've owned.
On the down side, to make it so slim and sexy required compromises. The built in amplifier is feeble and the speaker is tinny and buzzy! Inexcusably poor. Fortunately, it has an earphone jack and a built-in fm transmitter which works very well if you tune to the lower end of the fequency range. Since that means you can't listen to anything else on the radio, I use a small sports radio clipped to my belt to monitor directions instead.
Another thing that seems to be characteristic of Garmen is a tendency to lag just a bit. I have to give Magellan credit, the display showed where I was in real time. Although the Garmin gives me turn directions in plenty of time, With both the visual display and voice instruction I'm often actually in the turn before it gives me the last "Turn right on", etc. A minor irritation.
Where it counts though it works beautifully, I have no complaints. In fact UPS just delivered the four more I ordered as Christmas presents.
 Great GPS but lousy maps October 31, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Before buying the 750, I used to have a Garmin nuvi 260 and it was my very 1st GPS. I was very happy with the 260 because it did well everything it was supposed to do, except that at some times it would give me wrong directions, mention street names that didn't exist, recalculated routes that forced me to do multiple u-turns like an idiot, the USB slot is useless (no MP3 playback), keyboard was only available as alphabetical (unusable!), and used to get locked up if destination addresses were entered inside a parking lot with no satellite signal. In this last case I was forced to reset the unit or it would never come out of simulating routes.
When I saw the 750 reviews I noticed some of those things had been fixed, like the keyboard now can be switched to QWERTY (finally!), the USB slot can be used to load MP3 music and audio books, the media player can be linked to the car's FM radio with or without cables, the road speed limits are now shown on screen (I like that!), and the power cable now connects to the mounting bracket instead of the unit itself, which makes for less fiddling with the cable. You can also set multiple stops in a trip, which was not possible with the 260.
On the other hand, the maps are still ridiculously inaccurate. For my 1st use of the 750, I traveled from Prescott to Phoenix (Arizona) with my wife. We wanted to try new and different Asian restaurants and the Gamin Nuvi 750 had plenty to choose from. Here are some real world results from this GPS:
1. We chose one at random based on the shortest distance, and let the 750 take us there trusting entirely on the GPS map. We ended up on a parking lot of a private house in a residential area.
2. We tried another Asian restaurant in the vicinity, choosing randomly again from the GPS list by proximity, and this time it took us to the parking lot of a Mormon church in the outskirts of the city.
3. We tried a 3rd Asian restaurant from the list, again by proximity, and it took us to a place that was indeed a restaurant, but that people told us it had been closed for at least 2 years.
After 40 minutes of total failure, driving around trying to find a place to eat, we GAVE UP on the 750 and went looking around ourselves, and found a place nearby in just a couple of minutes.
4. After this we wanted to find a Wal-mart because my wife wanted to buy a hard case for this GPS. The Garmin nuvi 750 is quite expensive but comes with no case whatsoever. Already laughing, we used the GPS to find the nearest Wal-mart and this time it took us to a Sam's Club instead, which we cannot enter because we are not members (ugh!!).
5. We used the 750 to trace a route to the the nearest mall, and it drove us into a desert wasteland (I am not kidding you!!).
6. We tried to get to the closest BestBuy and later (to make this short) to a CompUSA store and both had been closed for at least a year now.
7. We asked around to avoid following the GPS blindly, and found out a place that actually existed, the Metro Center Mall in Phoenix, and used the GPS to take us there. The problem was that the highway 51 was under construction and the nuvi 750 GPS insisted on re-routing back to the same ramp we already knew was closed. We had to drive quite FAR AWAY from that ramp for the 750 to finally choose another route, but by then we were already far away from the intended route and had to take the longest way.
8. I have to admit that what Garmin thinks it's the "fastest" route sometimes involve going through absurd routes, and this has been confirmed by reviews from other people. In the most typical case, the "fastest" route almost always involve being the longest, like I could had turn right and got the destination immediately, but Garmin preferred to go around the block in the opposite direction instead, which takes 4X more time and it's obviously not the "fastest".
Conclusion:
The Garmin nuvi 750 is definitely an improvement over the 260 in what comes to features and ease of use, but the maps are still terribly inaccurate and some of the glitches still persist from the 260. I checked on the maps info using the 750 and it claims to be using the 2009 maps, which only confirm my suspicions that even the latest Garmin maps still prove quite inaccurate after all these years.
The MP3/audio book players, FM transmitter, QWERTY keyboard, wide screen LCD, and display of local speed limits are all very welcome additions that make using the 750 a much more pleasing experience comparing to the older 260 model. Re-routing is VERY fast, almost instantaneous in my driving experience with it, which in some cases can be life-saving. Satellite signal reception is also much stronger than with my older 260, where in some cases I get signal locks even from inside houses and parking lots - really awesome.
So there you have it: the pros and cons. I have never used GPS from other makers, so this experience is solely based on what Garmin has to offer and my need to get directions while driving on a city I am not familiar with. I am giving the 750 3 stars because of all the improvements and ease of use it has over the older 260 model, but taking 2 stars off because of the unacceptable map inaccuracies and the ridiculous routes Garmin put us through to get the "fastest" route.
 Great GPS October 31, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Very good GPS. Touch screen is great. Provides trip info like average overall speed, drive time, stop time, total trip time, speed (very accurate). Countdown time to destination. Really incredible.
 MY CHEAP TOM TOM WAS A BETTER UNIT October 29, 2008
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
I have had my Nuvi 750 a few weeks now and I am returning it. I had a cheap older Tom Tom from a previous job and it was much better than this. For $349 this thing should be much better performance and quality wise. The volume is almost inaudible, then out of the blue the voice just stopped working, the machine says no voices found, no idea where they went just happened suddenly. Takes entirely too long to recalculate and orient itself, takes upwards of 5-10 minutes to find the satellites, reboots itself telling me it's loading maps. Cannot/does not find way too many adresses, places that have been around a long time too, to be very useful to me as a truck driver. Oh yeah, you cannot search by zip code which for me is a major issue. A couple other things I can't remember right now but overall I say it's junk and I'm returning mine this weekend for something else.
Good product October 24, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Good device, but the FM modulator is not the greatest, very staticy can't seem to get the right station.
Also would be nice if it displayed the time when you have the map open
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