Garmin Nuvi760, Car GPS Navigation

I own both the Nuvi 660 and the 760, I'm title this reconsider for people having vexation deciding between the two of the same kind with the price debate betwixt the two products at the interval of this review is near to 100 dollars. I'brawl not going to converging-point on the feature differences, as that information can have existence easily obtained from specifications and online reviews. The 660 was a fine produce back in 2005-2006, but the new 760 outdoes the 660 in practically everything, but-end in that place are some key usability fixes that make the 760 a advantage purchase for the frequent user.

1. 760 has abundant better fonts for street names than the 660. This may appear to be like a trifling update to some, but the 760's fonts greatly improve conspicuousness. The 660 uses wholly capitalized text since way names on the map, and the font is incredibly cartoonish and unaligned, something find to one's mind the scribbling Comic Sans font steady the PC. The 760 uses your standard Verdana-like font by street names in capitalized and lowercase letters. The fonts on the 760 are smaller, cleaner and surprisingly abundant easier to read while driving. The maps extremity up looking professional, and not some cartoony children's video sport.

2. 760 has better representation in 3D map fashion than the 660. In the 660 when you are zoomed in under 3D chart mode, the roads close to your car are displayed incredibly generous, so large that they run into other roads, making the zoom exercise essentially kindly of ineffectual for dense roads. The 760 does not oversize your roads pure because you zoomed in to explore smaller roads in recital. This establish is very nice in quest of those who compel in places through dense roadways, like New York City.

3. No antenna on the 760 makes hooking up your Nuvi to the cradle one progression easier. On the 660 you lack to flip up the antenna before attaching the cradle. For folks who park their cars in succession the way overnight, removing the GPS from the cradle for storage in the relieve from distress or glove separate part is a fustiness, and it's a lot easier hooking up the 760 to the cradle than the 660. It'sitting hard to aim the 660 to its cradle in the dark as you have to align the one and the other the alluvial land edge and the lade port under the antenna. In the 760, the charge port is directly adhering the grounds of the one; you can hitch it to the cradle by one hand in the dark easily forward the 760.

4. It takes the 660 a good 45 seconds adhering average (sometimes longer than 2 minutes) after profit up to locate the satellite without ceasing a cold start. If you have firmware 2.6 installed on the 760, the hanger-on acquisition time afterwards avail up is between 10-20 seconds. After the firmware update, my 760 also holds a stronger lock to the satellites than my 660, I can get satellite close fast inside my house by the 760, whereas I can't get a lock by my 660 (adjusting the antenna does very little).

5. The ability to set multiple ad hoc viapoints on the 760 substance it'sitting a destiny easier creating one after another routes (real close at hand to forbear a especial interstate or a high exchange road). Whereas the 660 gives you uncorrupt one viapoint.