| Garmin nüvi 3790T 4.3-Inch Bluetooth Portable GPS Navigator | 
| Brand: Garmin
Category: CE
List Price: $449.99
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Rating:  67 reviews
Sales Rank: 186
Media: Electronics
Autographed: No
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Number Of Items: 1
Batteries Included: Yes
Display Size: 4.30
Battery: 1 Rechargeable Li-ion
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 5.3 x 5.3 x 2.6
MPN: 010-00858-20
Model: 010-00858-20
UPC: 753759099800
EAN: 0753759099800
ASIN: B003EYVHH4
Release Date: June 10, 2010
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Less than 9 mm thick - about the same as a standard #2 pencil | | • | Full glass 4.3" diagonal multi-touch display | | • | Dual orientation capabilities allow you to use the nüvi 3790T either horizontally or vertically | | • | Innovative speech recognition let's you control your nüvi with your voice - allowing you to keep both hands on the whee | | • | Bluetooth® compatible with a built-in microphone and speaker |
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Product Description
Nuvi 3790T GPS
Amazon.com Product Description
Experience uniquely personal navigation from the elegantly slim nüvi 3790T. It features a multi-touch glass display, nüRoute⢠technology with trafficTrends⢠and myTrendsâ¢, voice-activated navigation, 3-D building and terrain view, lane assist with junction view, hands-free calling compatibility and subscription-free traffic alerts.
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Less than 9mm thick
| Award-Winning Design |  Versatile and compact for car or pedestrian use
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The new nüvi is less than 9 mm thick, about the same as a standard #2 pencil. It has a full glass 4.3” diagonal multi-touch display. Dual orientation capabilities allow you to use the nüvi 3790T either horizontally or vertically, fitting smartly in your hand when walking. Sleek design also disappears neatly into your pocket or purse. With a rechargeable lithium-ion battery, it’s ready to guide you by car or foot.
Experience nüRoute⢠Technology with trafficTrends⢠and myTrendsâ¢
Smart and good-looking, this uniquely personal navigator comes with advanced routing capabilities that include trafficTrends⢠and myTrendsâ¢. There’s no subscription necessary, no added costs, your nüvi 3790T just does it.
With trafficTrends, your nüvi 3790T automatically learns daytime trends for traffic flow to improve your routes and better predict your estimated time of arrival based on time of day and day of week. And you get free trafficTrends⢠updates every time you connect your device to myGarmin.
With myTrends, when you save your regular destinations in your “Favorites,” your nüvi 3790T will, over time, begin to figure out where you’re going even without your telling it! It provides time of arrival and relevant traffic information. So whether you’re driving to and from work or a regularly scheduled weekly event, your nüvi 3790T will help you get there on time.
Speak Commands
nüvi 3790T not only tells you where to turn but listens to your spoken commands. With its innovative speech recognition, you can control nüvi with your voice â allowing you to keep both hands on the wheel. Simply wake up nüvi with a customizable voice command and begin speaking menu options that are clearly displayed on the screen. Tell nüvi ""Find Address"" and speak an address to start navigating.
Know the Lane Before It’s Too Late
No more guessing which lane you need to be in to make an upcoming turn. Lane assist with junction view guides you to the correct lane for an approaching turn or exit, making unfamiliar intersections and exits easy to navigate. It realistically displays road signs and junctions on your route along with arrows that indicate the proper lane for navigation.
Make Hands-free Calls
For hands-free calling, nüvi 3790T integrates Bluetooth® wireless technology with a built-in microphone and speaker. Just pair it with your compatible Bluetooth phone and talk hands-free through the 3790T while staying focused on the road. Simply dial numbers with its touchscreen keypad to make a call. To answer calls, just tap the screen and speak into its built-in microphone. Enjoy convenient one-touch dialing for contacts and points of interest.
Receive Subscription-Free Traffic Alerts
Steer clear of traffic with the integrated FM traffic receiver and free lifetime¹ traffic updates. Receive alerts about traffic delays and road construction that lie ahead on your route. Next, simply touch the screen on nüvi to view traffic details or detour around the problem area.
Dual orientation capabilities allow you to use the nüvi 3790T either horizontally or vertically, fitting smarly in your hand when walking. | Navigate City Transit
With its enhanced pedestrian navigation capabilities and dual-oriented screen, nüvi 3790T is the perfect travel companion for getting around town. Download optional cityXplorer⢠content to help you navigate the big city. In addition to knowing where to walk, where to catch the bus, subway, tram or other transportation you’ll also have access to mass transit schedules and estimated travel time to your destination. cityXplorer maps are available for select cities throughout North America and Europe. And with prices as low as $9.99, you'll have money left over to spend in the big city.
Get Turn-by-Turn Directions. See Buildings and Terrain in 3-D
nüvi 3790T has an intuitive interface that greets you with two simple questions: ""Where To?"" and ""View Map."" Touch the color screen to easily look up addresses and services and get voice-prompted, turn-by-turn directions that speak street names to your destination It comes preloaded with detailed City Navigator® NT street maps for the U.S, Canada and Mexico with nearly 6 million points of interest (POIs) such as stores, restaurants, hotels, entertainment venues, gas stations, ATMs and more, and speed limits for most major roads. With 3-D Building and Terrain view, you’ll see representations of prominent buildings in many cities and map contours at low zoom levels, giving you a realistic perspective of the terrain.
Go Beyond Navigation
Also offered on nüvi 3790T are standard nüvi features that go beyond navigation. For example, ecoRoute â a green feature that calculates a more fuel-efficient route, tracks fuel usage and more. The 3790T includes many travel tools including JPEG picture viewer, world travel clock with time zones, currency converter, measurement converter, calculator and more. With photo navigation, you can download pictures from Garmin Connect⢠Photos and navigate to them. With its ""Where Am I?"" emergency locator, you always know your location. Simply tap the screen to get your exact latitude and longitude coordinates, the nearest address and intersection, and the closest hospitals, police stations and fuel stations. The 3790T features Garmin Lockâ¢, an anti-theft feature, and is compatible with our free Garmin Garage where you can download custom voices and vehicles. Enhance your travel experience with optional plug-in microSD⢠cards.
Compare the nüvi 3700 Series Features
| | | nüvi 3700 Series Features | | | nüvi 3750 | nüvi 3760T | nüvi 3790T | | Detailed Map Coverage* | Y | Y | Y | | Voice activated navigation | N | N | Y | | Traffic | Compatible | Lifetime traffic | Lifetime traffic | | Hands-free calling | N | Y | Y | | 3D terrain and buildings | N | N | Y | | * Full coverage mapping for the U.S. and Canada. Now includes Mexico. | |
What's in the Box
nüvi 3790, preloaded street maps for the U.S., Canada and Mexico, vehicle suction cup mount with speaker, FM traffic receiver/vehicle power cable, USB cable dashboard disc, and quick start manual.
¹Lifetime traffic extends for the useful life of your Garmin traffic receiver (as long as you own a compatible Garmin GPS) or as long as Garmin receives traffic data from its traffic supplier, whichever is shorter. Traffic content not available for all areas. See www.navteq.com/rdstraffic for traffic coverage areas and www.garmin.com/traffic/fm/navteq.html for program License Agreement containing complete terms and conditions.
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 Nice Graphics and better interface but routing weird September 7, 2010
D. Morgan
The graphics on this device are much sharper and colors much better than previous versions I have owned (Nuvi 660 was the last). That makes the display interface more inviting although the map displays seem pretty much the same (albeit better resolution). The voice pronunciation is significantly improved over previous models. It is more fluid and streets are pronounced much better. The fact that it can be used in "portrait" mode is great...I like seeing further ahead on my route when I want to. I also love the customization of the display info on the map to include things like mileage remaining or altitude or time remaining or time to turn or direction etc. All these things are much better than previous models...in fact an order of magnitude better.
I found the voice recognition to be pretty good given the noisy environment of a car (turn off your radio when you talk and it works even better!). However, the number of commands controlled by voice is very limited. You cannot pan and zoom using voice and you can't switch to the "data" screen from the map (but you can go the other way). They should make a lot more of the commands available by voice but just zoom in/out would be a major major improvement for "hands free" use.
The major disappointment for me was in the routing. I drive from Houston to San Antonio and back four times a month. It is 200 miles each way of which 189 miles is on Interstate 10. I have one stoplight each way. My Nuvi 660 (and daughters 270w) both route me along I-10 for 189 miles. Unfortunately, this device has me exiting off the highway at one exit and getting right back on after going through the intersection. This makes absolutely no sense. I estimate there were 30 instances of this. I have tried changing the preferences for routing and that helped some but it still wants me to get off. I think that for some reason it wants me to take US90 rather than I-10 but clearly that would be foolish. Also, leaving home, it sends me six blocks up, one block over and five blocks back to get on the highway so you drive right past the very street it puts you back on later--and it even recognizes they are interconnected. It also can't direct me to my home but admittedly it is hard to get to my place because it is right next to a huge urban interchange and the roads are hard to map. Nevertheless, you buy a GPS for routing and this did a very poor job.
I cannot recommend the traffic reporting. It didn't see any of the traffic directly in front of me but it did for accidents 70 or 100 miles out. Not very useful. Also, the killer for this is that I paid a HUGE amount of money for this device but apparently they insist on selling advertising on the traffic display (how much do they make? one or two cents??).
This is supposed to show the signs above the highway interchanges but it only did it once. Since then, no joy...it tells you about the route but it doesn't show the signs.
The display of 3-d buildings is fun and surprisingly accurate but not very dense even in Houston. Therefore it doesn't really help navigate by providing visual clues on the route.
They have come a long way with the device but, unfortunately, the routing problems are significant. In the end, that makes it, at best, a "3" for me. Of course, you may have a better experience living in another part of the country.
Pretty darn good device September 6, 2010
pokeysman
Overall I'm pleased with "Karen" (I like the Ausie gals voice). The power cord goes to the mount instead of the gps, and that's a great idea. I suppose this is like many other units in that it takes you to the wrong place or it doesn't recognize places; e.g., I looked for the nearest post office, and Karen took me right past a big one on my way to another. It is generally intuitive except when it comes to saving, modifying or deleting favorites. The resolution is very good, and I have had no trouble locating satellites. The touch screen seems to have some calibration issues: you try to select something but the screen moves up or down or what you want doesn't get selected. Overall it's a very good unit and I recommend it.
 Overall, it's a step down from previous Garmin Nuvi GPS devices September 6, 2010
SalsaBoy (Bay Area, CA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I've had my Garmin 3790t now for a couple of months. This is my fourth different model of Garmin devices (and because of their susceptibility to break and malfunction, it is my ninth or tenth unit in just over three years -- meanwhile, I was overseas for nearly one year of that time without my GPS . . . but the sturdiness of the unit is a different story).
Superficially, this is a great GPS. It's simply beautiful. The screen is much brighter; the size is thinner; the speaker on the back of the mounting device makes it much easier to hear while speaking on the bluetooth (though it is still sometimes difficult to make out what people are saying with the road noise). I've been having some issues with the bluetooth, however, which I'll get to in a moment. The Voice Recognition software is a wonderful addition, though far from perfect. I imagine that it will only get better with time. The first couple of weeks using the Nuvi 3790, I enjoyed it so much more than earlier models, but over time I began to see the same issues arise over and over again.
The biggest problem with the Garmin 3790 is the routing. In a word, it's terrible. I don't know what Garmin has done, but they've apparently ditched perfectly good routing software from previous Nuvi versions to some cockamamy routing that makes little sense. Sure, sometimes, even on older Nuvis, the unit would suggest un-optimal routes, but the routings with the Garmin 3790 are truly obscure. Whereas the routings on previous Garmins were direct and simple, this Garmin tends to zig-zag me to my location. If my destination is ten blocks east and six blocks north, instead of having me travel on the main road ten blocks east and another main road six blocks north, it will send me one block east, then one block north, then two blocks east again, then one or two blocks more north, etc. This is NOT because I'm programmed the unit to have eco-friendly routing or to avoid traffic or the shortest distance -- of which, incidentally, these routings wouldn't qualify. I've tried playing around with those settings, but I've seen no noticeable difference. Even on routings that are clear -- such as going down one road to get to my destination -- this Nuvi will often direct me to go to a parallel road and then come back. I have never seen this before on any other Garmin unit. It's atrocious. When I know my way around, I simply ignore the Nuvi. When I don't, it often sends me in circles. I get where I'm going, eventually, but it's not an efficient or effective system. It's not the trustworthy mate I'm used to having with a Garmin device. To be sure, these routings are so bad, I'm going to call Garmin personally and let them know they've screwed this up and I am one unhappy customer about it.
I also have problems with the bluetooth. About half of the time, it doesn't connect. I'm accustomed to haivng the Nuvi take a minute or so to find and recognize my phone every time I start it up. With the Nuvi 3790, however, it often never finds my phone. It doesn't necessarily give me the message "Bluetooth device disconnected" -- it only says that when I don't have my phone with me -- but it still doesn't connect. In these instances, I have to turn off my Garmin 3790 and then turn it on again, in which case it recognizes my phone immediately.
I have noticed that it is taking an increasingly long time to find satellites as well. When I first bought the unit, it found satellites within seconds. Now, it takes minutes, and sometimes, it's often three or four minutes.
Overall, I'm not terribly pleased with the Garmin 3790. It's sexy, but it's not reliable. I don't understand why Garmin would change what was working so well before. With earlier models, the navigation routings were on-target about 80% of the time. With the Nuvi 3790t, the routing is on-target about 25% of the time. It's the biggest issue by far. The bluetooth is a slight annoyance, but it wouldn't detract from my appreciate for the well-made enhancements. Still, at the end of the day, with all of the sex-appeal stripped away, I bought a GPS unit for direction and navigation, and the Garmin 3790 does not do a good job with that fundamental task. Personally, I'd wait before getting one, until Garmin recognizes and corrects these issues because the whole Nuvi experience is significantly dampened.
 very nice September 5, 2010
greg stephenson
Never thought Garmin would be able to keep up with Navigon but its about time someone did.This model with its 3d graphics- a screen that is very easy to read and all the info it has with it is all it says it is -it is worth more than its price for sure.ABT has a good deal on amazon if you can catch one.
Almost GREAT but a bit buggy!!! September 5, 2010
Radio Man (NY, USA)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
First, as everybody has commented..the display on this 3790t looks AMAZING! Compare it to ANY other GPS and the difference is almost like Black and White TV in 1956 to today's HDTV! The Display not only looks good it's VERY use-able in any light..even direct sunshine hitting it's screen. I have a top of the line Magellan...you can barely see the screen when it gets very bright out. Anyway, I'd rather talk about a few quirks or negatives as I feel a review should help one decide if the pros of a device out weigh any negatives.
My first major con is that I have only seen the Juntion View screen pop up MAYBE 3 times in over almost 2 weeks of driving. I live in NY and there are a ton of Juntions I have passed thru. The 3790t DOES show lane assist (the arrows which lane to be in for upcoming turns) BUT It simply almost NEVER shows a Juntion view. I actually returned my first unit thinking it was simply defective..it was NOT. So from my experience you are BARELY going to see Juntion view on this unit at least in NY. I have read other reviews that state they see a lot of Juntion Views..but in NY unless I have a second defective unit?...you can almost forget the fact the 3790t HAS Juntion View. As a side note my Magellan shows a Juntion type view at 1,000 times to one vs this unit.
My second con..is more about refinement. This darn GPS is roughly $400 depends on the deal you get. The voice inside my unit SOMETIMES though rarely, will crack. Meaning..if a map is zooming in or or out I have noticed the voice breaks up. This has only happened 2 times in 2 weeks..but in a $400 unit this is unacceptable.
Another CON for me is my first unit froze up the minute I decided to NOT follow the gps's route as I knew a shorter way to go. I had to re boot it..all was well but again...refined?$400 NO!
My last and maybe biggest con is traffic??? WHAT?? This Garmin is telling me there is a ton of traffic on my route YET my radio's traffic report is not mentioning any traffic where the Garmin is telling me it is. Also the Garmin was auto re routing me OFF my route because it THOUGHT there was a ton of traffic coming up. Well..I didn't listen to the Garmin, and there WAS NO traffic where it said it was. On the other hand..one time the 3790t told me all roads were clear..while I was sitting in traffic, barely moving 10mph on 55 mph road. So it has been my experience that the traffic feature is near useless.or at least maybe it's an hour or 2 behind reality. That being said my Magellan's traffic feature was just as useless.
So after all this complaining why do I still give it 4 stars? Well..OVERALL I actually LOVE this unit. OVERALL it picks excellent routes, I like the timing of the voice telling me where next to turn..it is VERY difficult to miss a turn with the 3790t..it's EXCELLENT at guidance. I chose a female New Zealand voice (built in) and it's very refreshing to be able to change voices...as one voice can get monotonous after you own a gps for a long while.
I LOVE the size of the unit..more than as a toy..it's so pocket able a HUGE plus over the other dinosaur gps units out there now. Battery life seems good and overall construction seems high end..except I get a little creeky sound on the small plastic part on the back if I press on it, that also houses the speaker.
The voice quality is AWESOME blows away the Magellans..(I don't know TomTom)..and it's loud as you can stand. Voice Command (YOU speaking to the unit) is near excellent though you may need speak rather loudly or it may just stare at you. :)
I DO love you can even use your voice to choose your CUSTOM favorites. HOWEVER you only get 5 favorites at a time to choose from. If you don't see the one you want..you have to say DOWN..it will scroll down another 5 and another 5 (or it's 4 at a time) don't recall. Eventually you see your favorite..choose the NUMBER next to it..and bam, all by voice you can start navigating. I wish you could SAY the NAME of your favorite(AS in Speech to TEXT)...say you named your favorite Mike's place or whatever you have it named. Instead you need scroll possibly thru 100's of favorites till yours is found VIA voice. Of course you can simply use the screen and type it takes a second actually BUT so much for voice command then.
Lastly one feature common to I think all Garmins which I love is within favorites you can see all the favorites NEAR the one you just went to. My Magellan can not do that..and being I am in sales..this is a WONDERFUL USEFUL feature cause I may have a customer 2 blocks away from where I am and the 3790t will tell me so...which may have skipped my mind otherwise.
To sum up my book (sorry) This is truly a wonderful UNIQUE great gps..with excellent routing..which is why we buy a gps. I just initially wanted to point out some negatives as too often reviews become almost like a TEAM event..meaning I love Garmin..or Panasonic or WHATEVER, Often that clouds being objective..I wanted to be objective here...All in all quirks and all, I think THIS may be your favorite GPS of your lifetime..till the next model improves on his one "somehow" Highly recommended!!
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