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Product
Description - January 8,
2008
Garmin's
nuvi 700 series brings two exciting new
features multi-destination routing and,
"Where am I?/Where's my
car?" to its popular pocket-sized
GPS navigator lineup. As with all nüvis, you
get Garmin reliability, the fast satellite
lock of an integrated high-sensitivity
receiver, a slim, pocket-sized design with a
gorgeous display, an easy, intuitive
interface, and detailed NAVTEQ maps for the
United States, Canada and Puerto Rico with
more than 6 million name-searchable points
of interest.
All of the Garmin nuvi
700-series navigators also feature a rich
array of features including spoken
directions in real street names, MP3 player
and photo viewer, and an FM transmitter that
will play voice prompts, MP3s, audio books,
and more, directly through your vehicle's
stereo system.The
Garmin nuvi 760 and 770 add
integrated traffic receivers and Bluetooth
capability for hands-free calling. The Garmin
nuvi 770 adds maps for Europe. The Garmin nuvi
780 adds enhanced MSN direct content
capability..
New Features Where Am I? Where's My
Car?
The Garmin nuvi 700 series is the first to
answer two common questions: "Where am I?" and
"Where’s my car?"
At any time, with a single tap of the
screen, drivers can display their exact
latitude and longitude coordinates, the nearest
address and intersection, and the closest
hospitals, police stations and gas stations.
And to help drivers find their car in an
unfamiliar spot or vast parking lot, all Garmin
nuvi 700s automatically mark the position in
which they were last removed from the
mount.
New Features
Multi-Destination
Routing
This lets you
enter several spots into the device (day
care, supermarket, cleaners, office, for
example) and it will plot the fastest route.
And once you've found the best router, the
"Route Planning" feature lets you save up to
10 different routes, Garmin touts the
feature for providing, "the most efficient
route for errands, deliveries and sales
calls." The feature also makes this an
instant essential accessory for anyone who
shops garage sales (you know what we're
talking about).
A trip log provides an electronic bread crumb
trail of up to 10,000 points, so you can see
where you've been on the map.
See Better, See More
The super-bright, 4.3-inch (diagonal)
touchscreen display gives is anti-glare for
ease of viewing during the day and
automatically changes its color profile for
easy viewing at night or in dim light. It
offers 2d or 3D perspective views.
The widescreen format gives you 70% more actual
screen area than a 3.5-inch screen. Primarily
this translates into a better view of the area
through which you are driving. This is
especially useful in showing you what parks,
restaurants, ATM, gas stations, etc. are
nearby, or in letting you know whether a detour
is a good idea. Also, the device itself is
larger, meaning controls on the screen are more
widely spaced and somewhat easier to push.
First Rate Map
Data
All Garmin nuvi
700s come preloaded with highly detailed
City Navigator NT road maps for the entire
United States, Canada, and Puerto Rico. This
map database features nearly six million
points of interest (POIs), including hotels,
restaurants, gas stations, ATMs, and
attractions. Garmin gets its map data from
NAVTEQ, a world leader in premium-quality
mapping.
Important
note about map updates: Due to our high
volume of sales, almost every Garmin portable
GPS navigator sold by Amazon.com will come with
the most recent map version. If you ever do
need a map update, you can purchase one from
Amazon.com.
Hands-Free
Calling
In more and
more places, it is becoming illegal to use
cell phones while driving without a
hands-free kit. WIth Bluetooth capability,
microphone and speaker, you can match your
nüvi to any bluetooth-capable phone to make
hands-free mobile phone calls. Simply dial
the phone number with the nuvi's touch
screen keypad to make a call on a compatible
phone. To answer an incoming call, just tap
the screen and speak into the built-in
microphone. Making and taking calls on the
road has never been easier, or safer. In
addition, Garmin makes it a breeze to
look-up and dial numbers from your
personalized phone book or even tap into
your cell phone's call history log.
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