GarminDriveSmart 76, 7-inch Car GPS Navigator with Bright, Crisp High-resolution Maps and Garmin Voice Assist

I got this to upgrade my very old Nuvi model. On those old GPS displays, the touch screen is SO frustrating and you have to really press and wait for it to recognize each tap. The old one was also frustratingly slow to recalculate the route if I detoured for something like a rest area or exit to get gas. The voice saying "Recalculating" becomes a running joke on long road trips.So, enough about the old one... the new Garmin models have a much more responsive touch screen just like cell phones. The processor in there is a lot faster to recalculate if you're doing a detour (and without the annoying voice telling you about it). It also supports extra nav systems besides GPS which seems to help it be even more accurate (with 10 feet is usually what I got). The old one would sometimes lose signals in valleys or downtown between buildings and might show me a hundred feet away, but this model does a great job of showing where I really am.The voice navigation is amazing. It was so cumbersome to type in addresses on the old one but with the nice touchscreen, that's a breeze, but what I really loved was being able to say "Okay Garmin, go to Walgreens" or something and then pick which one I wanted to go to from the list. I don't know how thorough the database of locations is, but on my recent 3500 mile road trip, I rarely asked it for something it couldn't look up. Fast food and gas stations are just fine, I even asked it to go to a Verizon store when we needed a new phone and it pulled up the nearby locations.My one gripe is probably about the connectivity to my Android phone. The Garmin Drive app works, but the GPS keeps wanting to change the volume of my phone on its own. I also connect to my car radio over bluetooth to play music, and I've setup the Drive app and GPS appropriately for that case, but it seems like when the GPS connects it wants to lower the volume of my phone (and thus how loud it plays music to the car stereo). I can turn it back up, but that only lasts until the next time I get going again. Very weird.I also had problems where the GPS would keep showing "Galaxy S8+ disconnected" over and over. I think that was the power savings on my old phone putting the Drive app to sleep... maybe? I disabled it from being able to sleep, but I haven't driven long enough after that to see if it helped, and then I updated to a newer phone anyway so the jury is still out on whether that's still an issue. That doesn't concern me too much because when I'm driving, I don't really need the GPS linked to my phone although, if I understand correctly, it can get data through that phone connection for even minor things like weather updates or road conditions that maybe the traffic data doesn't get? Or using that tether for software updates too if I'm not within range of my wifi (which really only happens when it's parked in the garage anyway).Overall I'm very happy I splurged for the update. I miss my old Nuvi 1390's ability to connect to the ecoroute module plugged into the OBDII port so I could see the real time gauges right there on the GPS, but I do have a bluetooth dongle for OBD that I can use to see that on my phone. It was just handy because I'd use that whole ecoroute stuff on the GPS to keep track of my gas usage between fillups and it would show my MPG. I got an app for that now, it just means manually putting in my mileage instead of having the GPS already know that. It'd be cool if Garmin added a gas tracker app directly on the GPS... shouldn't be that hard?

I have Wave and all the rest but was taking a cross country trip in my Crysler Crossfire 2 seater convertible. Decided I should have the availability of a larger screen with GPS and Live Traffic reports and was I glad I purchase this. Saved me a lot of time avoiding many construction sites going on across the country, especially a major detour on Rt. 71S in Ohio. The vocal instructions and the city pictures were right on the mark. Not one wrong destination.

Garmin one of the best , easy to follow and change route, I been using Garmin for.over 15 years , I Travel all part of the state. very easy to understand. Now I upgrade to the 66 6" with Bluetooth and voice commands. I have 4 different Garmin gps , for work , my car, bicycle. And it good for the price. GARMIN ALL THE WAY.

I do like the larger size as compared to the former TomTom I had. This GPS is not perfect. I am led to sites that are on the opposite side of the road, or down the street still. That has happened at least three times. For the most part, it leads to me to where I need to be with no problem.The screen is big enough to read. It is bright and does not get washed out by the sun light as my old one did. It is easy to navigate once you know where everything is located on the menues.

This is a very nice unit with a lot of features. I downloaded the complete Garmin owner's manual from the internet and read all the instructions thoroughly. Even then, it took some trial and error to figure out how to load addresses, etc. into the unit.But once everything was loaded the unit work as expected giving clear directions to every destination.

Simply put, the verbal directions function is very good (i.e. turn here, etc.), everything else is very, very poorly designed and not even close to "smart".The cord is fairly short and if you accidentally pull it from the lighter, instead of switching to battery, it checks for an update and shuts down. By the time it starts back up, you could miss your exit etc. BTW, there is no "resume trip" button, but if you click "map" the trip will still be there (at least it was for me).The button to turn it on is on the back of the unit so don't think about mounting flat against anything. The power supply connector can only be mounted, in the back, pointed up or down, which points the cable in the 2 places it probably won't need to go: up towards the windshield and down in front of whatever is directly under the unit (other than that the mounting system is fairly good).The software design is one of the worst I've ever seen. I searched for Smith Road and Smith Road appeared on the list of streets. But when I clicked it, it said not found. The solution was to type Smith Rd. (which was not on the list). FYI Rd = Road.The other way to select a route is to touch the map at the start and stop points. I figured I'd get close to the exact spot and then edit the address. There's a pencil symbol (which usually means edit text) and there was something else, but neither would let me edit the address.There are so many really stupid features and nothing is intuitive (IMHO). I installed the Garmin app, so that I could use Alexa (the little yellow bus version of AI) but the app didn't connect to Alexa. Two apps that transmit data around the world to use a cell phone to operate a device that is less than 2 feet away (that's genius). The interface is almost as bad as the Pluto TV interface. In the meantime I'm sure all the privacy invading features are working flawlessly.