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A great GPS cursed with the most inaccurate touch screen ever created.

yes, agree with #1. I personally don't recommend this to anybody in my family... sorry, Garmin. Check out other brand.

Punching in an address is like using a random number generator.

I have the exact same GPS. While this is not a perfect GPS but I never had problem with the touch screen entering address. Do you guys have ginormous fingers or something?

I've had two Garmin 765 GPSs. The one I have now was purchased from Newegg a few months ago, refurbished. The power button seemed flaky right off the bat. It's been getting steadily worse, to the point where sometimes I have to fiddle with it for a full two or more minutes before it will turn on.

I wouldn't risk buying a refurbished GPS again. You just never know how thoroughly it's been tested and refurbished. It's a reliable GPS otherwise, and the map's routing performance is outstanding.

As for the buttons, you've got to be VERY careful when touching the screen. If you're not dead center on the letter, it's hit or miss. Must admit, however, I do have pretty enormous fingers.

Maybe disability homer can loan them his dailing wand in order to type on the screen.

This model has lifetime free traffic feed on the FM band, which requires plugging into the outlet adapter. I like mine, works well.

OK, I sm somewhat of an expert in satellite data so here:

Each GPS manufacturer must launch or pay to have launched their own GPS satellite(s). The GPS unit in your car can only "speak" to it's own company's satellite. The satellites in turn "speak back" to the individual GPS units. That is why they were so expensive several years ago.

The bigger companies have more units communicating with the distinct possibility of overload or crash. This has happened many times recently with Garming and TomTom since they are the most popular. If too many people are using their GPS at the same time, the satellites overload and can actually crash into another planet, star, meteor or asteroid...or worsed case back down to Earth.

Also, the beams that are transmitted as the GPS units "speak" to the satellites can cause beam deflection errors which usually occur on bridges or the entrances to tunnels. Additionally, GPS radar microwave beams can be warped and/or "wrapped" from satellites that are about to transpond and overload because of too many people beaming to them at once.

Also, the satellites can lock their beams to the wrong GPS units and it is possible to reeive someone elses meant transmission which force people to get totally lost. For example, you live in San Francisco but you receive the satellite beam from the TomTom satellite unit of a person living in Prague. This is why I only buy offbrand GPS units like Pharos

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#8 is full of BS.

OK, I sm somewhat of an expert in satellite data so here:

Each GPS manufacturer must launch or pay to have launched their own GPS satellite(s). The GPS unit in your car can only "speak" to it's own company's satellite. The satellites in turn "speak back" to the individual GPS units. That is why they were so expensive several years ago.

The bigger companies have more units communicating with the distinct possibility of overload or crash. This has happened many times recently with Garming and TomTom since they are the most popular. If too many people are using their GPS at the same time, the satellites overload and can actually crash into another planet, star, meteor or asteroid...or worsed case back down to Earth.

Also, the beams that are transmitted as the GPS units "speak" to the satellites can cause beam deflection errors which usually occur on bridges or the entrances to tunnels. Additionally, GPS radar microwave beams can be warped and/or "wrapped" from satellites that are about to transpond and overload because of too many people beaming to them at once.

Also, the satellites can lock their beams to the wrong GPS units and it is possible to reeive someone elses meant transmission which force people to get totally lost. For example, you live in San Francisco but you receive the satellite beam from the TomTom satellite unit of a person living in Prague. This is why I only buy offbrand GPS units like Pharos

#8, wearing an aluminum foil hat DOES NOT make you an expert in satellite data.

Peakmaster so so full of crap.

Mahavishnu

Peakmaster is wrong. Prove it.

Peakmaster, is someone paying you to be an "expert"? I'd ask if they were hiring, but I don't think I'd be as good as you making stuff up.
FWIW (not made up but from memory so I might have some inaccuracies), the primary GPS sats currently in use are from the US military. The original purpose was missile guidance, which is one reason that other nations plus the US are working on anti-satellite weaponry. The EU and China are in the midst of launching their own sats. What we currently get as GPS signal is "detuned" from the one the military uses - and they can turn it off altogether if that seems like a good idea. The full resolution signal is encrypted, which implies the whole cypher/dycyper sigint deal. It wouldn't surprise me if the sats can be switched from using the current encryption scheme to one or more different ones - so that nations that have been working hard on a decrypt (lots of data to work on, what with sats broadcasting) won't have anything useful if the balloon ever goes up (and I hope to God that it never does).
And I don't consider myself to be somewhat expert in this area - probably anyone here calling bs knows the same stuff...