Garmin nüvi 750 Review

What the reviewers like:

• Lower price without sacrificing most helpful features
• Excellent navigation
• Easy to use
• Multi-point routing

What the reviewers don't like:

• Users can't exclude specific roads from a route
• Weak FM transmitter makes routing unit's audio through stereo a chore
• Speaker can sound tinny or too quiet

Garmin nüvi 750 review highlights

GPSMagazine.com's comprehensive review does a good job helping readers decide whether the nüvi 750, which leaves out a few advanced features in favor of a low price, will meet their needs. Two other reliable sites, GPS Tracklog and GPSLodge.com, recommend the nüvi 750 on their buying guides but skip the full review (the nüvi 750 performs similarly to the exhaustively reviewed nüvi 760). Reviews at Amazon.com are posted by consumers, not experts, but they are particularly useful when considering the nüvi 750 - users have detected flaws that eluded the experts, and recently added reviews reveal that Garmin's updates have fixed certain early problems. For example, a CNet.com review faults the nüvi 750 for being sluggish, but more recent user reviews report that is no longer the case.

The Garmin nüvi 750 hits just the right balance between price and performance, reviewers say. It includes advanced features that experts say can help you navigate - multi-point routing and the ability to speak street names - while leaving out two extras you might not miss: traffic alerts and the ability to make Bluetooth hands-free calls. If you want those two extras, you can spend more for the nüvi 760 (*est. $425), which is the GPS experts most often recommend in this price range. The nüvi 750 beats Magellan and TomTom GPS units in repeated routing tests. The nüvi 750 also gets better reception than its predecessor, the nüvi 650 (*est. $275) in tests, and with all of the nüvi 750's extra features, reviewers say it's worth the extra cost. Both experts and owners downgrade the entire nüvi 700 series for its underpowered FM transmitter, which is supposed to allow users to route the unit's audio through their car stereos via unused FM stations. Users also repeatedly comment that the nüvi 700 series' speakers can sound tinny or too quiet.

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*In order of credibility (see our Ratings Criteria).

1. GPSMagazine.com
Garmin nüvi 750 Review
Editors of GPSMagazine.com
Feb. 21, 2008

This e-zine, with its plethora of comprehensive reviews, is one of the most reliable sources for GPS reviews we have found. This thorough road test does an excellent job evaluating every feature of the Garmin nüvi 750, comparing it not only with competitors from other brands but also with other models in the nüvi line.

2. GPS Tracklog
Garmin nüvi 750 Review
Rich Owings
Nov. 1, 2007

The Garmin nüvi 750 is an alternate high-end recommendation in GPS blogger Rich Owings' buyer's guide. The guide includes pricing information and links to this dedicated nüvi 750 page, which displays Owings' brief description of the unit's features and links to reviews from outside sources.

3. GPSLodge.com
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Scott Martin
Nov. 11, 2007

The Garmin nüvi 750 is one of the best high-end GPS units you can buy, according to Scott Martin's buying guide at GPSLodge.com. Martin briefly lists the nüvi 750's most important features, distinguishing it from the other recommended units in the category, but there is no link to a full review.

4. Amazon.com
Garmin nüvi 750 Reviews
Contributors to Amazon.com

Amazon.com sells all the major brands of auto GPS units, and encourages customers to submit ratings of products they've used. The Garmin nüvi 750 gets mostly positive reviews from more than 120 users, but users do find some problems the experts don't.

5. CNet.com
Garmin nüvi 750
Bonnie Cha
Mar. 5, 2008

The findings at CNet.com are not in line with other reviewers, as tester Bonnie Cha finds the Garmin nüvi 750 sluggish in alerting her to turns, and in recalculating her route when she misses them. User reviews on other sites explain that updates have fixed the sluggishness, but this review has not been revised.

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Garmin nüvi 750 Review