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 - Gift for T.O.I purchased this product as a birthday gift for a friend. The gift was very well-received, however, the product did not live up to its expectations. My friend said the GPS would consistently lose its signal, or would take a more than reasonable amount of time to find one. There were also some issues with the POI's. To make a not-so-long story a bit shorter, the GPS was returned. (I have no idea what the birthday boy did with his very generous refund...) Rating:  - Very Accurate and Easy to UseVery easy to use right out of the box. Have used while driving around several cities on business (Richmond, VA and Atlanta). I even used it recently to track the progress of my flight to Atlanta (max speed now shows 520MPH)! I really like the size of the screen and that this model speaks actual street names instead of "turn right in 500 ft". Rating: - Review of Garmin nuvi 759I especially like some of the features that the 750 has like multiple waypoints, pronuncing street names and choice of voices.The music and picture playback features were good too. One thing I would like to see would be consolidation of menus. I feel that I have to open too many screens to get to the features that I want. Also I found that it could not always find things stored in it's memory on the first search. I live in California and traveled to Minnesota. The nuvi failed to find Minnesota until I zoomed out on the screen and selected a point in Minnesota. Read the fine print about free trial features, you may end up having your credit card charged for these things after the trial period is up. Other than these things, I am happy with my 750 Rating:  - I no longer get lost in a parking lotYep, With the Nuvi 750 I travel with confidence and no longer get lost in the parking lot. I do a lot of disaster work and travel in unframiliar areas with out stress and with confidence that I will reach my destination. I have four GPS units and for travel this is by far the best. The Nuvi is easy to operate and I have no reservations reccomending this unit to all my friends. Rating:  - More problems appear after you work with it a while....I have had the unit for 6 months and bought it for a move to a new place where I would have to be driving to many unfamiliar locations. For the most part, the multipoint routing and such works OK, although the steps to program all the points seems more tedious than it needs to be. And then I started finding strange things, like a major Southern California post office that had been built seven years ago in a large town is not in the database (the post office on Hovely in Palm Desert). A 5-year-old home address I tried to find was not to be found -- not even the street it was built on, and that was in central Tucson. To make matters worse, after owning it for only 6 months, I get an email that to get the updated 2009 database, presumably containing all the points that should have been there all along, I am supposed to pay another $70 on top of the $430 I paid when it came out? C'mon! At least give free updates for a year!! At least it costs less to buy the upgrade from Amazon than from Garmin. Satellite reception definitely improved with the software updates, but is still sluggish sometimes even with sunny, unrestricted skies - or can't locate satellites at all. And strangely it often asks me to do unnecessary things like drive past my destination, sometimes half a mile farther, do a U-turn and return a half a mile back again to turn right into a parking lot -- when a simple left turn would have done just fine. Now that the first excitement of the device has worn off and I have had enough time to see all these quirks, overall I am underwhelmed. The device itself (hardware, aesthetics, durability, etc.) is good but the software is not up to par, and a GPS is only as good as its software. A price of $250 with at least a year of free upgrades would seem a better value.
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