Discover the New and Versatile Garmin Nuvi 3790T GPS

| Monday, January 30, 2012
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.

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.

The Nuvi 3790T and a #2 pencil have the same slim profile cut. Other cool features at a glance include the ability to use the device in either a vertical or horizontal orientation - convenience. While it isn't comprehensive enough to include absolutely everything, by using the 3-D Building and Terrain capability, you will get a representation of the terrain and the major buildings. Another standard that the Nuvi 3790T offers along with the City Navigator NT is the SUNA Traffic Channel that has a valid life subscription. A consequence of creating such a low-profile design is that evidently there wasn't any room left for a FM receiver.

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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