Discover the New and Versatile Garmin Nuvi 3790T GPS

| Wednesday, February 1, 2012
By Mary D. Hester


One of the pioneering companies in the Global Positioning System industry offers us the latest in its engineering efforts, the Garmin Nuvi 3790T GPS. 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. But no matter, it is a good move for Garmin because that is what consumers want. With the constant improvement they seem to be doing, we continually have to ask ourselves if the bells and whistles can really get any better.

Along with the clear trend toward micro-designs and very small profiles, there has never been a let-up for the love of 3-D in just about everything. There seem to be many people who love the sense of realism. Garmin created a proprietary 3-D imaging algorithm for buildings and terrains to meet the need for realism. Another thing the Nuvi 3790T provides is the highly detailed City Navigator NT street maps. What that provides is close to six million points of interest in the US, Canada and Mexico. If you are unfamiliar with City Navigator NT, then what you can see are hotels, restaurants, stores of all kinds, entertainment locations, ATM's, gas stations and a lot more.

Although it doesn't include absolutely everything, with the use of the 3-D Building and Terrain capability, it will be able to show you major buildings and the surrounding terrain. The Nuvi 3790T not only offers the City Navigator NT, it also comes standard with the SUNA Traffic Channel which has a life subscription. A consequence of creating such a low-profile design is that evidently there wasn't any room left for a FM receiver. Without a receiver, you won't be able to get traffic updates from SUNA. This means you will need a charge unit which also houses the FM receiver. Traffic updates will be available on the road because the charger is a mobile device.

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.

If you are looking for ideas of where to go when traveling around the country you can download photos from Garmin Connect and then just navigate to where suits you. Some people might find that feature a bit odd, but others could find it very useful to them. It offers an anti-theft device called Garmin Lock as well as Garmin Garage which can be used to download customized security features. That seems like such a slightly odd feature, but it could be convenient and fulfill a need with some people.




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