As most of you know I absolutely love my Garmin Nuvi 750. I don’t get lost anymore nor do I have to spend hours printing off maps that usually are erroneous. It will even tell me exactly where in the US I am at almost any given moment. I love it—I highly recommend it but I am so frustrated that I could say a few bad words and have in fact.
Garmin seems to be under the impression that my 60 year old brain is encoded in some way to know the rest of the instructions that were not printed by the printing company and that their proof reader missed. As well, they assume that my bifocal contact prescription for my old eyes allows me to read the smallest serial number ever printed in the history of mankind in the most absurd place I have ever seen. The reason we started this blog was to address just these problems so hold on—here we go.
The Garmin instruction booklet is written in pretty simple terms but leaves out so much that all you can do is pick up the thing and explore all the buttons. I did this with the fear that I might fry it at any moment but I am happy to report that it withstood my crazed punching of buttons and button combinations. I found out how to do just about everything I wanted to know how to do but I am left with a feeling that there are really good things I am missing. As I find out more I will share them with you and of course if you have any questions now please feel free to e-mail them to us and I will find the answer for you. I am trying to do this without help so that I may speak confidently on what was left out of the instructions so please let me try to help you bypass that frustration.
My Garmin sent me a New Years message—it said my information and maps might be over a year old and suggested that I visit their website to obtain new maps. Goodie!! I thought some of the information was old and some places were missing so I am all for new maps!! So I went to the website and couldn’t just find out how much my new maps were going to cost unless I had registered the unit and had my USB cord at hand. I didn’t want to download it at that time I wanted answer to a simple question—HOW MUCH! So many companies assume that we are all techno zombies and that anything new will just open our wallets—but not me. Cost has to have a balance in value for me—will that $69.95 reduce my frustration level significantly? The jury is still out on that one—I may wait until after my first two business trips this year to decide so stay tuned. I still have some brain cells left.
