GPS receiver with fast auto-routing, voice-activated navigation, voice guidance including announcement of street names, lane assistant, traffic news receiver, brilliant high-resolution color display with multi-touch touchscreen, worldwide base map, pre-loaded detailed maps of all of Europe plus Blue Tooth and USB interface. Well suited as navigation system in vehicles but may also be used as hand held device.
The model GARMIN Nüvi 3790T provides fast automatic route calculation - including multiple intermediate destinations if required - plus visual and voice guidance. The voice-activated navigation feature allows you to talk to your Nüvi 3790T while you keep your hands on the wheel and your eyes on the road. The lane assistant indicates the correct path in great detail if there are multiple lanes. There is also a TMC receiver included to
incorporate traffic news. The Nüvi 3790T is easy to use, has a brilliant, easy to read, high-resolution color display with touchscreen supporting multi-touch, an extremely sensitive antenna and an integrated worldwide base map. It is very well suited as a navigation system in cars, but you may also use it as a hand held device.
It has 4.9 GB built-in memory to store detailed maps with even more information, such as local roads, hotels, restaurants, public buildings and points of
interest. This model comes with pre-loaded maps of all of Europe including 3D building and terrain view, which occupy approximately 2.6 GB of memory including various language files. The remaining 2.3 GB memory is available to store additional detailed maps, waypoint files or pictures.
This model also has a speech computer to announce the names of the roads. The Nüvi 3790T is equipped with a BlueTooth interface to communicate with mobile phones which have the required communication
capabilities in order to call car rental offices, hotels, restaurants etc. whose phone numbers are stored on the GPS with a single touch on the screen. It can also act as a hands-free extension set to the phones. In addition, the GPS has a slot for an optional microSD memory module to store additional maps or data and an USB connector to exchange data with a computer. The device is powered by a rechargeable battery. The Nüvi 3790T provides navigation information outdoors, in a car, in a train or
even in an airplane (see MapSource examples).
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- Integrated 12 channel receiver with very sensitive built-in antenna.
- User interface in 35 languages: Afrikaans (South Africa), American English, British English, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, Finnish, Flemish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish and seven asian languages.
- Voice prompting in 42 languages: Afrikaans, American English, Arabic, Brazilian Portuguese, British English, Bulgarian, Canadian French, Cantonese, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, European French, European Portuguese, Finnish, Flemish, German, Greek, Hakka, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Luxembourgish, Mandarin (China), Mandarin (Taiwan), Norwegian, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Taiwanese,
Thai and Turkish.
- Integrated worldwide base map with countries of all continents including major cities and major highways.
- 4.9 GB built-in memory to store detailed maps with even more information, such as local roads, hotels, restaurants, public buildings and points of interest. This model comes with pre-loaded maps of all of Europe including 3D building and terrain view which occupy approximately 2.6 GB of memory including various language files. The remaining 2.3 GB memory is available to store additional detailed maps, waypoint files and pictures.
- Routing speed: 10.28 (see GPS Routing Speed for details).
- Supports FM traffic news receiver (TMC receiver included). Receives and processes traffic news messages broadcasted by radio stations. If the GPS receives a message about a traffic jam, blocked road etc. along the planned route, it can automatically compute a detour. Traffic news messages are broadcasted by many radio stations in various European countries including Austria, France, Germany, Italy and Switzerland. These messages are broadcasted for free and do not require any
subscriptions. The TMC receiver works independent from the car radio and finds stations with traffic news messages automatically.
- Slot for µSD memory card (µSD memory cards available as options).
- The GPS provides the following additional features:
- Picture viewer, displays pictures and provides various options, such as zooming, rotation etc.
- World clock
- Calculator
- Currency converter
- Measurement converter
- Suited as a hand held device or to be used in any kind of vehicles. Comes with power cable and mounting kit with suction cup for quick mounting and dismounting to easily remove the GPS receiver (seamless switching between cars, theft protection etc.), does not require any installation.
- Brilliant, illuminated, high-resolution LCD display with automatic backlight adjustment. Dimension: 97x57 mm (3.81x2.25 inches), resolution: 800x480 pixels, 65536 colors
- Easy to operate via touchscreen. Supports multi-touch - use two finger guestures to control the device.
- Manual or automatic switching of the display between daytime and nighttime, based on time and the current position (changes the colors of the display between sunset and sunrise for more comfortable viewing) Daytime: bright background, nighttime: dark background.
- Device is not waterproof.
- Powered by built-in rechargeable battery (lasts up to 4 h) or by an external 12/24 V power source, e.g. from a car's cigarette lighter (power cord included).
- Short time to first fix (TTFF¹: approx. 15 seconds after a warm start, meaning there are valid coordinates of the satellites available, or approx. 45 seconds after a cold start, meaning there are no valid coordinates of the satellites available).
- Data exchange with PC via USB connector (connection cable included).
- Firmware stored in Flash-Memory, can be updated by the user
- Operating temperatures 0 .. 60°C (32 .. 140°F)
- Dimensions: 122x75x9 mm (4.8x2.9x0.35 inches)
- Weight: 113 g (4 ounces)
¹) TTFF: Time To First Fix, time until the first information about the local position is acquired.
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Voice-activated navigation:
Example of a dialog between a driver and the Nüvi 3790T:
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In order to start the voice-activated navigation you have to speak a particular keyword. The preset word is "Voice Command". You may chose any word or sequence of words to start the voice-activated navigation. |
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"Voice Command" |
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Nüvi 3790T: |
"Speak a command" |
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Driver: |
"Down" |
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The GPS displays more commands |
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Driver: |
"Find Address" |
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It is quite difficult to speak the name of a city in a non-local language in such a way that the GPS recognizes the name. Therefore it asks to spell the name of the city if you travel in a country with a different language. "Spell city in Switzerland" |
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An even easier alternative is most likely to spell the postal code "Spell postal code" |
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Nüvi 3790T: |
"What postal code in Switzerland ?" |
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Driver: |
"Eight" |
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Nüvi 3790T: |
"Eight - correct ?" |
Driver: |
"One" |
Nüvi 3790T: |
"Eighty-one - correct ?" |
Driver: |
"Five" |
Nüvi 3790T: |
"Eight hundred fifteen - correct ?" |
Driver: |
"Three" (Note: You could also just say "Eighty-one fifty-three") |
Nüvi 3790T: |
"Eighty-one fifty-three - correct ?" |
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Driver: |
"Yes" |
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Nüvi 3790T: |
The GPS displays a list of all postal codes starting with the given number. The driver has to select the correct number, even if there is a choice of only one item. |
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"One" |
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Nüvi 3790T: |
"Spell street in 8153" |
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"L" |
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Nüvi 3790T: |
"Select a line number or continue spelling" |
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"I" - "N" - "D" - "E" |
Nüvi 3790T: |
The GPS tries to auto-complete the name of the street and provides a list of possible street names. |
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Driver: |
"Three" |
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Nüvi 3790T: |
"What house number on Lindenstrasse ?" |
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Driver: |
"Eight" |
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Nüvi 3790T: |
"Eight - correct ?" |
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Driver: |
"Yes" |
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"Would you like to begin navigation ?" |
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Driver: |
"Yes" |
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"Start new route or add to current route ?" (The GPS will ask this question only, if there is already an active route. This allows to add vias (intermediate destinations) to the current route.) |
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Driver: |
"Start new route" |
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The GPS computes a route and shows the map with the first driving direction. |
Note: You may also speak names of cities and roads and house numbers; Names of points of interest (hotels, restaurants etc.) must be typed in using the keyboard.
- Automatic computing of a route to a user selected destination including optional via-points.
Various options to control route computation including manual and automated sorting of via-points.
- Lane assistant shows exactly which lane to take and when to switch lanes.
- Automatic re-calculation of the route when leaving the planned route.
- Automatic re-calculation of the route when receiving a message about a traffic jam or a blocked road along the planned route
(TMC receiver included).
- Guidance on the display (visual guidance) and voice guidance via the loudspeaker (acoustic guidance). Also announces road names with navigation instructions.
- Fast route calculation and re-calculation.
Finds routes 10 times faster than the GARMIN StreetPilot III, see GPS Routing Speed for more information.
- World map with zoom function.
- Pre-installed detailed map of Europe (City Navigator Europe NT) with 3D building and terrain view
- Information on the map displayed in 5 levels of details.
- Find waypoints, cities and exits.
- Extended search function for points of interest, addresses and intersections.
- Stores up to 1000 waypoints with name (up to 30 characters), icon (choice of more than 80 symbols), image and phone number. Supports categories to organize waypoints.
- Current elevation above see level
- Current time
- Current bearing
- Current, average and maximum speed
- Trip duration and distance (Odometer)
- Supports metric and U.S. units
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The image below shows the display of the Nüvi 3790T in true resolution (800x480 pixels). This does not necessarily mean the display is shown it its true size (97x57 mm), the actual size of the image depends on the properties of your display. All following images have been reduced to improve the appearance of this document. Many of the pages are configurable, the pictures are just examples.
Main Menu |
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- Status bar with GPS signal strength, Blue Tooth status, current time, status of the battery
- Search destination
- View map
- Stop navigation (only shown if there is an active route)
- Compute a detour (only shown if there is an active route)
- Adjust volume
- Tools (system settings, information about current position, manage data, image viewer, world clock, calculator etc., see Tools 1..2 below)
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Tools (1 of 2) |
Tools (2 of 2) |
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- Settings (system, navigation, display, time, languages (text and speech), map, safety and alarms)
- Current position (coordinates and elevation, nearest address, nearest intersection, find nearest hospitals, police stations, gas stations and road side assistances, save current position as waypoint)
- Help about using your Nüvi 3790T
- Information about the economy of your driving style
- Configuring voice commands (speech recognition)
- Route management
- To next page
- To main menu
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- Picture viewer, displays pictures and provides various options, such as zooming, rotation etc.
- World clock showing current time at different locations
- Alarm clock
- Calculator with four basic operations
- Unit converter to convert units such as distances, areas, volumes, speed, weight etc. in metric and american units.
- To previous page
- To main menu
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Satellites |
Current Position |
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- Coordinates of the current position
- Accuracy of the current position indication
- Position of the satellites, the sun and the moon
- Current speed
- Current elevation above sea level
- Strength of the satellites' signals
- To main menu
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- Current position (coordinates and elevation)
- Save current position as waypoint
- Nearest address
- Nearest intersection
- Find nearest hospitals
- Find nearest police stations
- Find nearest gas stations
- Find nearest road side assistances
- Back to previous page
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Map (day mode) |
Map (night mode) |
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- GPS status
- Map in 3D view in day mode with current position (blue car) and active 3D building view
- Traffic news (green icon)
- To main menu
- Current elevation above sea level (selectable data field)
- Current speed (selectable data field)
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- GPS status
- Map in 3D view in night mode with current position (blue car) and active 3D building view
- Traffic news (green icon)
- To main menu
- Current elevation above sea level (selectable data field)
- Current speed (selectable data field)
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3D Map with no Data Fields |
3D Map with Data Fields |
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- Map in 3D terrain view with no data fields
- Back to previous page
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- GPS status
- Map in 3D terrain view with data fields
- Traffic news (green icon)
- Current time
- Current elevation above sea level
- Current heading
- Current speed
- Back to previous page
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Route |
Track |
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- Planned route (pink line) with current position (blue car), vias (orange flags) and final destination (black and white flag)
- Back to previous page
- Estimated travel time for the complete route
- Length of the planned route
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- Map with travelled path (track, blue line) and current position (blue car), you may show or hide the track on the map
- Change scale ("-" and "+")
- Back to previous page
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Direction |
Lane Assistant |
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- Type of and distance to next turn
- Direction
- Map with planned route (pink line), current position (blue car) and next turn (white arrow)
- Traffic news (green icon)
- Back to previous page
- Estimated arrival time at final destination (selectable data field)
- Current speed and speed limit (selectable data field)
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- Detailed view of the lanes at the next turn
- The arrow indicates which lane to take
- Back to previous page
- Estimated arrival time at final destination (selectable data field)
- Current speed and speed limit (selectable data field)
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Directions |
Autozoom |
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- Additional functions
- To the previous directions
- To the next directions
- Back to previous page
- Type of turn, distance to turn and name of the road on which you will turn
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- Highly zoomed map with detailed view of next turn (will be display automatically when approaching a turn)
- Change scale ("-" and "+")
- Direction
- Estimated time to next turn
- Distance to next turn
- To previous turn
- To next turn
- Back to previous page
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Trip Computer (1 of 2) |
Trip Computer (2 of 2) |
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- Odometer A
- Current moving direction and current speed
- Odometer B
- Estimated travel time to final destination
- Distance to final destination
- Estimated travel time to next turn
- Distance to next turn
- Current elevation above sea level
- Maximum speed
- Additional functions such as resetting trip data (odometer, average speed, maximum speed, time)
- To next trip computer page
- Back to previous page
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- Odometer A
- Current moving direction and current speed
- Odometer B
- Total moving time
- Average speed without stopped time
- Total stopped time
- Average speed including stopped time
- Total time (moving time plus stopped time)
- Additional functions such as resetting trip data (odometer, average speed, maximum speed, time)
- To previous trip computer page
- Back to previous page
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Traffic Messages |
Traffic Message |
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- Color code (green = traffic still flowing, yellow = traffic partially congested, red = traffic is heavily congested or stopped)
- Name of affected road (touch to display traffic incident on the map)
- Distance from current location to traffic incident
- Direction from current location to traffic incident
- Previous traffic incidents
- Next traffic incidents
- Back to previous page
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- Map with traffic incident
- Change scale ("-" and "+")
- Type of traffic incident, distance from current position to incident and name of affected road
- Length of incident
- Color code (green = traffic still flowing, yellow = traffic partially congested, red = traffic is heavily congested or stopped)
- Previous traffic incident
- Next traffic incident
- Back to previous page
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World Clock |
Unit Converter |
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- Cities with time and day of week (choose cities from list)
- Time and date at current position
- Show world map with daylight and night
- Back to previous page
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- Choose unit (distance, area, volume, speed, weight, temperature, fuel consumption)
- Input (unit and amount)
- Result (unit and amount)
- Basic unit convertion
- Back to previous page
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Alarm Clock |
Text Entry |
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- Set time for the alarm
- Back to previous page
- Enable / disable alarm
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- Field for text entry with suggestion for auto-completion
- Delete last character
- Keyboard
- Back to previous page
- Switch to special characters
- Finish text entry
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- GARMIN Nüvi 3790T:
This model has been discontinued; however, you can still order options for the Nüvi 3790T.
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Quick start manuals, owner's manuals and firmware upgrade for GARMIN Nüvi 3790T:
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