Garmin Nuvi 765 - Expert Reviews

Review summary: Despite costing £229, the Garmin nüvi 765T wipes the floor with similarly priced satnav devices in terms of value.

Verdict: The Garmin nüvi 765T offers bags of value. With a simple-to-use interface and a TMC receiver in the box, getting to your destination in the least possible time will be easy even for novice navigators.

Review summary: The Garmin nuvi 765t is an in-car GPS satnav with 4.3-inch, 480x272-pixel screen, pan-European maps, TMC traffic and Bluetooth. Navigation includes spoken road names, motorway lane guidance and optional 3D landmarks.

Pros: What exactly is wrong with reversing up the motorway when you've missed an exit? Now Garmin has jumped on this perfectly innocent manoeuvre as though it's something shameful, with new motorway lane graphics that make negotiating exits as tediously ...

Cons: Cluttering the screen with 3D landmarks doesn't actually make urban driving any easier, especially in historic city centres cluttered with windy roads and ‘quaint' buildings. While satellite lock on and initial route calculations are fast, traffic ...

Verdict: A decent enough mid-range unit thanks to its comprehensive new Euro maps, but the Garmin's graphical gimmicks can actually make driving more difficult. Shop around for the previous 760t model to save yourself 50 quid - and some navigational headaches.

Review summary: Garmin has a bewildering range of in-car sat-navs, but this one is closest to our perennial favourite, the TomTom Go 730. But is it as good?

Pros: Well made. Clear screen graphics. Good value

Cons: Weak speaker. Near-field mapping. Confusing range

Review summary: The widescreen nuvi 765T sat-nav's design looks remarkably similar to last year's nuvi 760 and could have benefited from a revamp, but plenty of new features have been added to bring the device up to modern standards, such as motorway lane guidance, ...

Pros: Geo-tagged image support ; customisable points of interest ; text-to-speech conversion ; HotFix technology

Cons: Old-fashioned design ; fiddly FM transmitter set-up ; distracting motorway lane guidance and 3D landmarks ; sluggish reroute calculations ; occasionally insufficient volume

Verdict: Appearance-wise, the Garmin nuvi 765T is almost identical to last year's nuvi 760. It's only when you look beneath the surface that you can see where modern features have been included, such as the motorway lane guidance, road-speed warnings, 3D ...

Review summary: The nvi 765T introduces 3-D lane assist, 3-D building view, faster screen redraws, route planning, and host of other new enhancements to Garmin's already top-notch nvi product line. A few grievances aside, the new 7x5T series is a major update from ...

Verdict: The nvi 705 series replaces the nvi 700 series, and offers a number of significant improvements. Compared to the older nvi 760, the 765T offers: Free lifetime traffic Lane assist 3-D buildings Faster route calculations HotFix for faster GPS ...