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Garmin nüvi 755T 4.3-Inch Portable GPS Navigator with Free Traffic and Maps of the US, Canada, and Puerto Rico
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Technical Details
- Bright 4.3-Inch Diagonal Touch Screen Color Display- 480 X 272 Pixels, Wqvga Tft Display With White Backlight
- Preloaded With City Navigator(R) North America Nt
- High-Sensitivity GPS Receiver For Improved Performance & Reception
- Poi Loader Program Allows User To Set Up Proximity Alerts For School Zones, Safety Cameras & Custom Pois
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By averagepunter (Massachusetts)
I really wanted to like this Nuvi 755t, and for the most part I do. In the Boston area, Lane Assist and Junction View work well. The traffic information has proven useful on a number of occasions. The User Interface is simple and effective and there are a few display options that allow you to customise the information the appears on the screen. A nice touch is the inclusion of the speed limit for the road you are travelling on (Note: not available on all roads).
However, this is an automobile GPS unit. Its primary function is to get you from point A to point B as quickly as possible. All too often this is the downfall of this Garmin - it makes some very strange routing decisions. On many occasions it seems to have a preference for side/back roads over the faster highways. It seems to ignore the fact that these other roads have many stop signs and/or traffic lights that interrupt the flow of the traffic. On two instances in the past couple of days, it has routed me off a highway along a road with several sets of lights and then back onto the highway a couple miles later. It would have been much faster just to stay on the highway all the time. On another trip, it took me across South Boston instead of using the highways to the South or the North of that area. A 40min trip turned into an hour because of this poor routing. I have the unit set to pick the fastest route, not the shortest, and it does not seem to be up to the job - certainly not where roads with lots of traffic lights are involved.
I researched endlessly before buying this Nuvi so to some extent I knew what I was getting into. It seems these routing problems are widely reported but Garmin have so far failed to acknowledge there is a problem. I only hope they are working on a fix. In summary, it is a great unit if you use it primarily for leisure purposes, can put up with the occasional strange route and can take advantage of the new features. It will get you to where you want to go, sometimes it will do so efficiently, sometimes not, BUT...if I needed to use this for business purposes..well, Amazon would have already had it back.
By AlexCartermom
We bought this unit right before we took a long road trip. Playing with it for a week around the Richmond, Va area we had difficulties.
NO Lane assist, Worthless traffic
The lane assist never showed up once despite going through numerous heavy interstate intersections (like I-95 and I-295). The traffic dot was almost always wrong. It showed yellow or red when the roads were empty and when traffic was bumper to bumper it showed green. It was a tiny dot, so even if the color would have been right it would have been worthless because you would not be able to see the dot if you were focusing on traffic. It would be more helpful if the voice had said "Approaching heavy traffic" but there is no audio cue. Several times it tried to take us down a road that does not exist (it's just woods).
When we left the Richmond area the traffic dot completely disappeared. This was not the middle of nowhere. This was I-95, yet no traffic info. No traffic info in Myrtle beach either. Of course we spent an hour standing in stopped traffic, so there was plenty of traffic, just no traffic info. No lane assist ever... not ever in Richmond, I-95 in North Carolina, South Carolina or anywhere in Myrtle Beach.
This GPS loved the scenic route
Then there was this odd thing that our unit did which I can only think had to be a defect. It literally sent us in circles. It would tell us to get off the interstate and send us through neighborhoods with 25 mph speed limits and lots of stops signs while we were paralleling the interstate. Tried all menu functions and it would still send us through neighborhoods instead of the perfectly good interstate paralleling. There were at least three times it literally sent us in circles. If it was a choice between a route with slower speed limits and lots of stoplights and another it always sent us the slower route. Yes, we tried all the menu settings. The GPS didn't care, it was choosing that route regardless of the menu setting.
Route was never consistent
Every night in Myrtle Beach we ate at the same mall area and then went back to our hotel. Never once did the GPS send us back to the hotel the same route and never once did it use the easy route. One night it took us 82nd Street, one night it took us 36th street, one night it took us 45th street, one night it took us 17th street. Never once did it take us the 17 bypass (the straight shot with no lights, higher speed limits).
It did not identify most stores
It is true we did find a couple of things with the GPS, however several times we were looking for a McDonalds or a Walgreens in Myrtle Beach only to be told the nearest one was 17 miles away, etc. So you can imagine our surprise when we passed one in just a few blocks. There was absolutely no record of the McDonalds or Walgreens that we had to find ourselves in the GPS data banks.
Summary
We had updated our software the day we received the unit and we still had problem after problem. I can't help but wonder if we didn't get a defective unit because of the sheer problems we had with route selection. However, I don't think Garmin has it together with Lane assist yet, so save your money and don't buy this feature. Maybe the traffic is useful elsewhere, but it was always wrong in Richmond. Clearly Garmin needs to update their store lists. Perhaps this type of thing is more useful in places like NY city, but you'll be on your own in places like Myrtle Beach. As you might guess, we returned this unit as soon as we returned from our trip.
By Peter Headland (San Mateo, CA United States)
I knew about the problems people had been having with these units, so I made sure to install the firmware update before I updated the maps. And guess what - it still died. So now I have a brand-new GPS that won't even switch on, and I have to send it back to Garmin and wait a couple of weeks to get it fixed. Man, I hope someone starts a class-action suit against these clowns.
By T. Johnson
Garmin Nuvi 755t: At best, I rate this unit at one star.
This is my third GPS unit. My recent 9000 mile round trip vacation to Fairbanks, Alaska through 10 States and 5 Canadian Provinces was my first long trip with the 755t and my fifth multi-thousand mile road trip vacation with a GPS.
Every time I pulled off the route to fill up with fuel or take a rest break the 755t, though left powered on, would lose its mind and was just as likely to tell me to take a U-turn and backtrack my route as it was to have me go down side roads or non existent dirt roads. Seldom did it correctly direct me back to the route to my selected destination until being several thousand feet back on the route. It frequently had gas stations and restaurants on the wrong side of the road. We learned to ignore its incorrect directions after a stop.
The 755t does not display names of towns along the route - just a long purple line through empty space. It always had plenty of blank room on the screen to show city names, the Garmin designers decided we didn't need to see locations and names of cities along our route; they decided all we need to see is a long purple line. Watch the road signs, not the GPS screen for cities ahead. So if you happen to be driving the Alaskan Highway in Yukon Territory or British Columbia, forget about getting any indication from the 755t how far ahead the next town is or the 755t even identifying the name of a town as you approach and pass through it. It may automatically jump into a magnified view of city streets as you pass through, but will not indicate the name of the city. It also doesn't identify on the screen names of rivers or lakes you cross.
In the list of favorites or recently found addresses it doesn't bother giving the city or state/province name, just the street address - not very helpful when you are trying to keep tract of many attractions, hotels, etc in several cities and states. There is PLENTY of available blank space on the screen to list city names and state/province abbreviations, Garmin decided for us that we didn't need that information.
How bad is it? It is bad enough that the 755t doesn't contain information on locations of interstate rest stops or on State and Province Information Centers - better have good paper road maps if you want that info. In fact, if you buy a 755t for a cross country multi-state road trip contact the states/provinces you will be travelling through for free paper maps by mail - you'll need to frequently use the maps to supplement the 755t. Garmin, how about adding locations of interstate highway rest stops and state/province Information Centers and also identify if they have restroom facilities.
Reflections in the windshield: The 755t has a bright silver band around it - could be metal or maybe metalized plastic. When the unit is mounted to the windshield with the provided suction cup mount, the silver band on top of the unit reflects off the inside of the windshield into my eyes and the brighter the sunlight the brighter the reflection - should be flat black to eliminate reflections.
The release button on the mount: It's located on the bottom of the mount, the button ends up pressed against the dash top and as a result the 755t sometimes popped out of its mount. With the button on the bottom, the 755t was impossible to remove when the suction cup was mounted low on the windshield. To remove the 755t it was necessary to remove the suction cup from the windshield or snap the mount from the suction cup ball. Release button should have been put on the top of the GPS mount so you could easily remove the GPS from the windshield mount.
"Where To?" function: When you press the "Where To?" button it goes to two pages of options. There is a trick trap on the options pages. It is at the bottom labeled as "Near". Garmin decided for you that the unalterable default would be "Where I Am Now". "Where I Am Now" is useless when traveling on a rural cross country toll road or interstate highway where you want to find fuel, food, lodging etc along the route ahead, not behind you or in cities miles off the route to the side. This means that EVERY Time you use "Where To?" for "Points of Interest" you must remember to first select "Near" and press the button for "My Current Route" before selecting "Points of Interest".
The "Intersection" option for "Where To?" never did work for me, the 755t requires such exact lettering of street names that it would always fail to find one of the two street names entered.
The "Address" option for "Where To?" does not have a listing for the center of a city, so if you are trying to find rough mileage to a city you are forced to select some random exact address in the city. Garmin, how about adding "City Center" to the list of street names - the same city centers the states use to produce distance signs on roads. But, Wait. I just found a function on page two of the "Where To?" options pages labeled "Cities" which seems to provide distances to city centers. I typed in "Fargo" looking for distance to Fargo, ND. The 755t gave me a random list of 14 cities in 12 states named Fargo, not in order by distance from my location, nor in order of state names - just a five page random list I had to scroll through to find Fargo, ND. Good Grief, looks like Garmin could list cities in distance or state name order.
The Touch Screen "buttons": Get a stylus. I found the QWERTY screen impossible to use without a stylus. On other screens the "buttons" are so small with SO LITTLE DEAD SPACE between buttons that I was constantly activating an adjacent button by mistake. Yes, I calibrated button clicks - may times. Garmin must have designed the 755t for users with pencil thin fingers.
Garmin only gives you one overarching option for units of measure, miles or kilometers. When driving in Canada I would have liked to have been able to display speed in Kilometers per hour (KPH) and elevation in feet rather than in meters and distance to destination in miles rather than kilometers. That way I would have had a digital speedometer in KPH but have been able to view elevation and distance in familiar units of measure.
Traffic worked once - in Kansas City, MO - information was old - there was no traffic congestion.
Lanes function did show up for exits I wasn't taking. Never saw it for my exits.
The 755t is a big disappointment and is definitely not worth the $320+ I paid.
By Andrew P. Sopko (New Carlisle, IN)
I recently purchased/up graded to a nuvii 755 GPS for an up coming out west vacation. I used Garmin software named Map Source to plan out the 5000 mile trip with way points and stops along the way. We left from NW Indiana and the trip out to Arizona with the nuvii went flawlessly and it followed the program route to a tee. However on the return trip across many miles of open land and indian reservations it didn't do so well and kept straying from the pre programed route. Also upon startup of each new day we had to go through a number of steps to get back to the start of our route for that day. Other than these minor problems the product has many welcomed improvements over the older versions. Mabe with more usage I will be able to gain the knowledge as to overcome these problems.
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