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Posted at 6:16 AM on Thursday 12/2/10 by
Ben
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Newegg has the refurbished Garmin nuvi 765T Portable GPS Navigation System for $130 with free shipping. Features a 4.3" TFT LCD, Bluetooth, and is preloaded with City Navigator for North America. [Compare]
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    gassyjoe - Posted 6:21 am PST 12/2/10 (2519 Posts)  Report Spam

    Good navigation but extremely poor touch screen. We have the 755T (same unit minus the bluetooth) and entering an address is a total pain. You hit a button and it registers you hitting a different button on the other side of the screen. Once you can get the address in and don't have to push anymore buttons it works fine but typing on this is horrible.

    If I were shopping now I'd pass this up and wait for the Garmin 3700s to come down in price. They have many more features and supposedly a much better touch screen.

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    GrumpyCat - Posted 7:00 am PST 12/2/10 (282 Posts)  Report Spam

    I have a 765T and do not have the touch screen problems gassyjoe alludes to.

    Have had many generations of Garmin GPS since the GPS III+ (not the StreetPilot III) and every generation I appreciate the added features but bemoan the changes in user interface. On the old units one could customize the text screens which display raw numbers.

    On the 765T when entering and address in Find one might as well take a coffee break after typing the 2nd letter of the street while the unit builds a list of suggested spellings.

    I think its too hard to jump from one screen back to the map display.

    As for this particular offering, I'm wary of "refurbished" from any other than direct from Garmin. The only warranty is that which is remaining from the original sale. Presumably somebody returned the unit for a reason.

    Believe I've seen 765T's with lifetime map updates (this one does not), new, for $200. That would be a much better deal than this. But you might get lucky.

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    barrysanders - Posted 7:39 am PST 12/2/10 (209 Posts)  Report Spam

    I have to agree with number 1. The screens on some later model Garmins have been having issues. The screens do not respond correctly to button presses. That's the reason why you'll see a lot of these being refurbished. Calibrating the screens also has little effect on correcting the issue. Looks like there may be a firmware fix, but people have reported the same issue after the fix.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sj22fv6aLoc

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    gassyjoe - Posted 7:45 am PST 12/2/10 (2519 Posts)  Report Spam

    #2 you must be one of the lucky few to get a good screen on his. Search the forums and you'll see hundreds of posts complaining about how bad the interface on the 7x5 models are.

    One of the features of the 3700s is the ability to customize what information is displayed in each window (speed, eta, distance, etc.) if that is what you are referring to by text screens.

    Once the 3750 gets down to under $200 I'll be upgrading to it as it looks to be everything I need and works correctly.

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    gassyjoe - Posted 7:56 am PST 12/2/10 (2519 Posts)  Report Spam

    Oh, thanks for the info on the software update #3, going to update mine now. Hopefully it'll help with the screen issues but I highly doubt it.

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    cga - Posted 9:21 am PST 12/2/10 (72 Posts)  Report Spam

    I agree with all the previous replies complaining about the touchscreen problems--also the very long wait, but in my case for POI searches, not street addresses.

    When I recently bought a car with NAV, I retired my 765T. Frankly, I do miss a few of its features, but have learned to adapt to the car's NAV.

    With more and more car makers incorporating NAV, even in their cheap cars, I'm wondering how Garmin and its competitors will be able to stay afloat.

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    gassyjoe - Posted 2:09 pm PST 12/2/10 (2519 Posts)  Report Spam

    I've read that the in-car GPS have weaker signals and are not up to snuff to the hand-helds from Garmin or TomTom. How is your NAV one for routing and satellite acquisition?

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