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Monday, February 6, 2012

Meet Your Navigation Needs With the Garmin Nuvi 3790T GPS

By Mary D. Hester


The latest in engineering effort from one of the pioneering companies in the industry is the Garmin Nuvi 3790T GPS (Global Positioning System). The Nuvi 3790T shows that Garmin is continuing to update and expand from a technological point of view as well as in its design. The move to the "ultra-thin" look is a bit late as many other electronic hand-held devices have had that design for a while. The consumers wanted this design and Garmin responded, so it was a good move for them. Because the bells and whistles always seem to be improving, we ask ourselves, how much better can they get.

Ergonomic considerations are almost a must-have aspect for consumer electronics. However, the convenience factor for carrying the Nuvi 3790T in your shirt pocket and Pedestrian navigation mode addresses a new marketing demand. Its too early yet to see if Garmin's latest release is a hit though. As well as the trend toward micro-designs and small profiles, there has always been a love for 3-D in almost everything. There seem to be many people who love the sense of realism. With the creation of its proprietary 3-D imaging algorithm, Garmin works to create realistic terrain and buildings. The highly detailed City Navigator NT street maps are included in the Nuvi 3790T. There are around six million points of interest provided in the US, Mexico and Canada areas If you haven't used City Navigator NT before, then what it shows is a wide variety of places including hotels, restaurants, entertainment locations, ATM's, gas stations and so much more.

Using the 3-D Building and Terrain capability, you get a representation of the terrain including major buildings and it is not comprehensive to include everything. Beside the City Navigator NT, the SUNA Traffic Channel which offers a subscription that is valid for life is also a Nuvi 3790T standard. The one possible consequence of such a low-profile design is apparently there was no room left for an FM receiver. So that you can get the SUNA traffic updates, you do need to have a receiver. Since the FM receiver is in the charge unit, you will need to have it.

So that you can get the SUNA traffic updates, you do need to have a receiver. This means you will need a charge unit which also houses the FM receiver. But the charger is a mobile device so at least you can get traffic updates while on the road. Yes, there is Bluetooth capability that allows for hands-free phone calls. The microphone usually isn't of very good quality and seems to be the last thing they think to install, so you will probably want to experiment with the device first. There are so many features available that we can't cover them all in detail.

Garmin Connect can download pictures of places so if you are traveling around the country and need ideas of where to go, you can just download then navigate to whatever place seems interesting. If you are traveling around the country and run out of ideas of what to see, you can download pictures from Garmin Connect and then just navigate to whatever the picture shows.




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