Garmin Nuvi 3760T Europe with Premium Traffic

 

 

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It's a really beautiful GPS. Super slim and slips easily into a pocket, with fantastic screen resolution. Navigation and accuracy is typical Garmin - very good. Usability is also excellent. You won't need to use the manual, its easy to pick up and use straight away with a bit of common sense. I also find its sluggish at times - but I'm comparing it to the Apple touch screens. It actually works fine 90% of the time. The screen resolution is a major upgrade, so much so you'll hate using anything older!

My only gripe is the traffic (hence not 5 stars). Its not accurate at all. 4 out of 5 times it reports hold ups and accidents that have completely cleared (I know because I ignored its advice and did not divert). It does get it right sometimes - not often enough to make it worthwhile buying it based on its traffic credentials.

Overall, I like it so much I'm thinking of buying a second one.

For the past seven years I have used a Garmin Street Pilot 111 de lux and would still be using it if Garmin had not stopped updateing maps for it in 2009. So I looked carefully at what was on the Market and narrowed it down to the Garmin 1695,3760T, or 3790. I really wanted the five inch screen which the 1695 has as we use a motorhome and it is some distance from the passenger seat to where the Garmin would be sitting, but ruled it out mostly because as far as we are concerned garmin had tried to produce an all singing all dancing unit 90% of which we would not use. We do about seven thousand miles a year all over Europe and we wanted a good basic clear screened no nonsense navigator.
We turned to the 3760 and 3790, we were not interested in voice controlled so ruled out the 3790 and that left us with the 3760T. Delivered by Amazon very speedly, I got stuck straight into sorting out how it worked. The high resolution screen is a pleasure to look at, it locked into the satelites very quickly so I then carefull read the instructions and linked it to my computer, the computer sorted the drivers and took me through to garmin and found the 3760T without problems. It informed me that I needed to update my maps. This was a long process and took about three hours, but may be faster depending on the speed of your broadband (mine was 4mbs). The update went smoothly and my garmin was up to date and registered with Garmin. The screen was fast, flipping through the menus fast and easy. So far so good.
I am using it on the garmin sandbag type base which we had found worked well with the previous Garmin. So it was out to test on the road. I live in Guernsey, 9miles by 3 miles with a mass of small lanes so a real test for its accuracy where lanes interlink within meters of each other. As soon as I started driving the Garmin updated its traffic monitor (Don't think it applies in Guernsey as I heard nothing more) The navigation accuracy was excellent, although the electronic voice (female) had great difficulty pronouncing Guernsey street names and did miss words at the beginning of some sentencies, not as good as our previous Garmin. The 3D mapping view was excellent and very clear on the high definition screen. ( I still wish Garmin would do a high definition seven inch screen, more useful for motorhomers). This slimline unit can easily be unclipped from its holder and then can be used for city exploring and easily slips into a top pocket, can be used in landscape or portrait. I found it for the most part a pleasure to use. I deliberatly drove off route on a few occasions and its rerouting was accurate and very fast.
I got in touch with Garmin as I had three specific questions.
1)Can I update the mapping on my laptop to the current mapping spec of my new Garmin? The answer was yes and i was sent a list of instructions, the whole download went very smoothly.
2) Can I download all of the waypoints saved on my computer in my old Mapsource 2009 system to my new Garmin 3760T. Yes that should not be a problem. Sure enough instructions came back and that went very smoothly.
3) The instruction do not tell you the max size of the SD, SDHC micro cards the unit can take. Answer came back Max of 16gb and the unit can cope with both Micro SD and Micro SDHC cards.
Garmin's service i have to say was excellent and I now look forward to using the unit accross Europe in 2011.

This was bought to replace a Garmin Nuvi 670 which was never the same after a Garmin update, & would freeze up at the fist sign of a junction, needing a re-boot.... very annoying. The battery life had also reduced to minutes.

This unit works fine (much as my 670 when I first had it), but has a much clearer screen, with better graphics. The addition of lane identification is also extremely useful. One criticism is that the speed camera "bong" (another £20) is similar to that of an aircraft stewardess button, & too quiet. I got into GPS navigation over 10 years ago, prior to it being popular, using a Palm Tungsten T3 & mapping software. Being PDA based, all displays were taller, rather than wider, which is far more intuitive, & you drove up the screen.... the 3760T supports this very well. Its also much thinner, & genuinely slips into an inside pocket of a jacket. We recently used it to navigate Valencia on foot, & it was very good at that, getting us to the door of the hotel from the train station. (It also worked in the plane next to the window!!!)
Minus points..... The glossy screen is a fingerprint magnet, but looks good when clean! The speaker is build into the mount, & yet another change of plug connection means I have to rewire the hard wired plug in the car. Needless to say my old Garmin mains adapter won't fit either, so more money for Garmin if I want to charge it out of the car.

Overall its a great unit, a bit pricey, but the best one I've owned yet.

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2.0 out of 5 stars great hardware but poor navigation
Bought one of these (NOT from Amazon) and what a mistake that was. Looks great, very light, compact, and with lifetime map updates (the main reason I bought it instead of the 4... Read more

Published 26 days ago by Dave M

1.0 out of 5 stars Randon rebooting problem
I had been pleased with the device but one failing has lately dominated. The device randomly closes down and reboots without warning. Read more

Published 1 month ago by A. O'Brien

1.0 out of 5 stars DO NOT BUY & THROW AWAY YOUR MONEY..
After a lot of research we invested in this GPS = After many years of successfully using a Tomtom, we decided to plunge into the Garmin instead as looked really sleek and small... Read more

Published 2 months ago by Shelly

4.0 out of 5 stars Very good, but not perfect
My first foray out of the TomTom homestead for gps hardware. My initial impression was not good, updating the maps on the Mac was a horrible experience. Read more

Published 3 months ago by Michael Foord

5.0 out of 5 stars Garmin Nuvi 3760T - an excellent choice.
My opinion of this equipment can be summed up in two words - "absolutely brilliant". I travel frequently throughout Europe, for business and for pleasure. Read more

Published 3 months ago by johnaustin

4.0 out of 5 stars Fascinating and useful
Being a newcomer to SatNavs in general, this was slated to be an adventure of sorts. Our youngest has moved to a new job in Warwick, and had asked us to bring some of his... Read more

Published 3 months ago by DS9

2.0 out of 5 stars Some good features but major disadvantages
At the outset I have to admit that we returned our Garmin Nuvi 3760T for a refund after three and a half weeks. This was due to two major flaws. Read more

Published 4 months ago by M. PEART

5.0 out of 5 stars How do I plug in the antenna?
Do not try to plug the aerial directly into the Garmin. It is not designed to do so.

The aerial plugs into the 'External antenna connector' (a rectangular block which... Read more

Published 4 months ago by C. X. Linton-Willoughby

2.0 out of 5 stars Returned after 1 day!!
Got the 3760t delivered yesterday and first impressions were great. It's a lovely looking unit with crystal clear screen and user friendly on screen functionality. Read more

Published 4 months ago by Sally Sorento

3.0 out of 5 stars Garmin Nuvi 3760T
I've only used my Garmin Nuvi 3760T for a couple of trips, so this is not a full review. A couple of routing issues have come to light so far. Read more

Published 4 months ago by Zepp2010

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