Garmin nuvi 750 Portable Automotive GPS Receiver

Unit Size: 2.8”H x 4.8”W x .8”D
Display Size: 4.3” Diag.
Weight: 6.1 oz.
Price:$499.95

Extra Wide, Extra Thin, Portable Navigation Device from Garmin.

Sleek and wide, nuvi 750 leads the way with advanced navigation features, a colorful widescreen display, preloaded maps, an FM transmitter, a travel kit and more. Like the rest of the wide n�vi 700-series, its premium navigation capabilities, like route planning and a handy locator, give you peace of mind on the go. With nuvi 750's widescreen display, you'll always get the big picture. View map detail, driving directions, photos and more in bright, brilliant color. Its sunlight-readable, 4.3-inch display is easy to read - from any direction.

Nuvi 750 comes ready to go right out of the box with preloaded City Navigator NT street maps and millions of points of interest (POIs) such as hotels, restaurants, fuel stations, ATMs and more. Simply touch the color screen to enter a destination, and nuvi takes you there with 2D or 3D maps and turn-by-turn voice directions. It even announces the name of exits and streets so you never have to take your eyes off the road. In addition, nuvi 750 accepts custom points of interest, such as school zones and safety cameras and lets you set proximity alerts to warn you of upcoming POIs. The European version even includes a preloaded safety camera database containing locations of cameras for parts of Europe.

The Nuvi 750 is pre-loaded with the entire Mapsource City Navigator North America NT software. The City Navigator software features street level detail from Navteq for the entire United States, including Alaska, Hawaii, and Puerto Rico, plus all of Canada. Garmin‘s City Navigator data also includes almost 6 million points of interest, with categories ranging from restaurants, hotels, ATM’s, gas stations, shopping centers, plus many more. With the data already loaded to the Nuvi 750, all you have to do is turn it on and enter the address or point of interest that you are traveling to and let the 750 guide you there. If you have more that one stop, the Nuvi 750 will accept up to 10 different stops and can automatically arrange the route in the most efficient order. The Garmin 750 will give you visual directions, plus verbal turn-by-turn guidance with text-to-speech commands. Text-to speech guidance will take the verbal directions one step further by not only announcing the distance and direction of your next turn, but also including the name of the street that you will be turning on. This helps to keep your eyes off the Nuvi 750’s superb display and on the road ahead. If you need to view the map, Garmin gives you the ability to change between the traditional overhead view and a 3-D view of the road ahead and to choose from several different Vehicle icons.

Just like the rest of the Nuvi Family the 750 will accept the optional Garmin Travel, Savers, and Language guides for additional travel information. Other features include a Trip log with 10,000 recorded points, user selectable QWERTY or ABC keyboard, and the Travel Kit with MP3 Player, Picture Viewer, and Currency Converter.

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