Nuvi 780: Best Garmin Car GPS?

Posted by admin on January 29, 2010

Today, it’s a must that every individual car owner must have a GPS navigation device installed on his or her own vehicle. Why? First and foremost, GPS navigation devices help its owners find correct direction each and every time. I’ve experienced this when I was in an unfamiliar location and was searching for a friend’s house. My GPS was a godsent. It helped pinpoint the street where my friend lives and saved me a lot of time and agony. Not only that, GPS devices can help its owners save money on gasoline, tire repairs and auto maintenance all related to lengthy “search” time.

Now let’s dig in a little deeper into the vaults of the best portable handheld gps devices. Today, we’ll take a closer look at Nuvi 780 – considered as the best Garmin car GPS in the market. Of course we shouldn’t take any answer immediately just like that. We need proof, evidences and other technical specifications to support that claim.

And that’s exactly what we’re going to do right now.

Garmin Nuvi 780 Features and Review


Garmin Nuvi 780 has tons of features to offer to its users, more so, several people testified that this Garmin car GPS exceeded their expectations by providing them 1) Innovative designs 2) User friendly interfaces 3) Extremely helpful Navigation functionalities and 4) Entertainment add-ons.

Without going into too much technical details, this Garmin car gps device sports a 4.3 in. display screen that has a good sunlight legibility. This means that it is ideal for day time travels and adventures since navigation info is readable. The Nuvi 780 is also loaded with millions of POI (points of interest) that ranges from gas stations to ATM machines, hotels, hospitals, Zoo, Theme parks, police stations, local attractions and many more.

The good thing about this handheld GPS device is that it allows its users to customize its own POI like the house of your son, daughter, grandparents, relatives and loved ones. It comes with a USB cable (to easily organize it with your PC), an instruction manual and has a pretty good battery life of up to 5 hours.

The Nuvi 780 can be programmed to scan the best destination route, thanks to its multi-destination routing feature. Using this Garmin car GPS device, its users won’t have a tough time dealing with traffic jams due to vehicular accidents and other obstacles on the road. The Nuvi allows its users to plug-in up to 10 unique spots and it will do the rest. This gadget will trace the quickest route to your destination in a snap. It’s quite cool isn’t it?

Other than navigation, the Nuvi 780 car navigation device can give weather information, stock market updates, movie listings, news, entertainment and current commodity prices. It can also function as a picture viewer, MP3 player, calculator and a clock. (seems like this is an all-in-one gadget) The built-in memory can be expanded with a separate SD card. This gadget comes with a North America city navigator software and Free 3 month subscription to MSN Direct Connect. If you’re wondering about the price, ahh, that’s the best part, for $175 you’ll get all the good stuff without spending a fortune. This really sounds like a good deal to me.