Automotive GPS Systems

5 comments

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   V. Vanderbent says:

   November 1, 2009 at 9:24 pm (UTC -6)

   This may work well for those on the dark side, but what the documentation doesn’t tell you, unless you dig for it, is that the DVD and CD that come with it are only compatible with Windows computers. It used to be that Windows people were proud of the products they support, but if a manufacturer won’t even tell the consumer that their products are OS limited, well, you get the picture. Stay away from this.
   Rating: 1 / 5

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   G. Murema says:

   November 1, 2009 at 11:15 pm (UTC -6)

   thanks to pc magazine and alot of self-research i decided to order nav 740 gps i’m yet to see how it is..i had a fine drive 400 gps and it’s the worst unit ever made..
   Rating: 5 / 5

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   G. Hall says:

   November 2, 2009 at 12:05 am (UTC -6)

   I stopped into a pawn shop with my mother with no intension of buying a GPS unit, but I do love to browse and had been ‘ off and on ‘ checking out GPS units.
   
   Quite honestly I had never read any reviews, I had never checked into whether any of them were any good or not. With technology now days you never can tell. You simply have to try and keep up with it all. Eiter this or just ‘ go with a gut feeling ‘.
   
   Anyway, I seen the GPS unit and walked out of the Pawn Shop with it. I’ve read all or most of the reviews here about the NAV 740 and well, was hoping I would fall into any of the ‘ problem categories ‘. I just read one review, what was the name? David I believe. Great review with great detail and very well written. My grammer stinks somtimes. Ha ha.
   
   Ok, back to the point or points. I have had no trouble with the battery. I’ve used the unit for almost or maybe longer than an hour after a complete charge and it’s still going strong. ( It looked new when I bought it, but after browsing History and what not I could see that the unit had been used; never the less. Which is a good thing perhaps. Maybe whoever had the unit before just didn’t need that type of unit or needed other functions.) Ok, i have not had any problems with browsing from one screen to another; even though sometimes or on some options it ask ‘ do you want to _____? And when i click ‘ Yes ‘ it won’t do anything. Perhaps only a mess up on my own part.
   
   Ok, I’m taking a breath …
   
   Let’s see, battery good; check, switching from screen to screen; check, …
   
   The Satelite hooks up pretty quick. I mean, not instantly, but within a few minutes and your good to go. And not to mention it does a really good job of ‘ finding you ‘ or ‘ where YOU are. Within just a few feet every time for me. Which from my experience with GPS units this thing is doing a very nice job of it.
   
   I finally had the chance to actually drive with this unit this morning. I was going to check it out for the fun of it and am tickled how well it worked. I was a bit skiddish like I said, after reading some of the reviews. But, there was no need for my breaking or ‘ turning around ‘. The unit found me, kept up with me ( the Arrow >>> went with me in complete accuracy ). No problems there. In fact it told me something like 3 times before I came to the next turn that I needed to turn > and this is how it works. Turn left on so and so Hwy, .8 miles ahead > then it would narrow it down to ‘ turn left at the next street ‘. WElllll, I missed my turn. Wasn’t use to the area and blinked, plus had someone behind me which added to the pressure. BUT, IT WORKS … very well if you ask me.
   
   ok, let’s see … as for the lack of ‘ Maps ‘ in the V7 units … I don’t know. the 740 seems to be very extensive in map knowledge. At least I have ran into any problems there. I’ve looked a few things up. And was actually happy the GPS found me this morning and told me what road I was on.
   
   Well, I honestly don’t know what else to add. Yes, with any bit of ‘ new ‘ technology or ‘ change ‘ from anything you are use to. They can all be a pain sometimes.
   
   Over all though. This unit rocks …
   
   5 stars … God Bless

   Oh yeh, well, my car sits low to the ground anyway, which adds to ‘ noise ‘ and not to mention I just had the unit sitting in my lap so, I could here what the lady was telling me. I’d have to grab the unit and hold it close to my ear in order to hear. Ah, had the window cracked to. I’m a ‘ bad, bad smoker ‘eh ‘. Anyway, it’s very audible, clear, easy to hear and to understand. Even with having to grab the unit up I could make out what she was telling me.

   Ok, I’m done. Hope this was all helpful. I was really weary of this unit at first, but quite honestly I don’t see any problems with it.
   Rating: 5 / 5

4. 

   marv says:

   November 2, 2009 at 2:57 am (UTC -6)

   Almost everything on this gps was great except the battery would not have only a 20 min life and die.Good color and sound and navagation was good almost everything was out dated.
   Rating: 1 / 5

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   theredwillow says:

   November 2, 2009 at 3:08 am (UTC -6)

   I bought this because it says that it can handle up to 16gb of sd card. So I plugged my 8gb card into it with the map files copied over to it and my music.

   The music interface is terrible. It has no shuffle option and there’s no way to listen to music as you’re navigating. I think it defeats the purpose of having mp3 possibilities because I wanted it to pause the music to give me directions. I heard that many other gps systems have that option, but not this one.

   It runs on Windows CE, so I’m going to try to replace their crap software with better ones.
   Rating: 3 / 5