V7 NAV740 GPS

usability, price, performance, maps, size

reliability, route planning

60% of the reviews on Amazon.com give this product a positive rating.

Buying a lesser-known brand like the V7 can be a support and service gamble, but the Nav740 seems like a heck of a deal--as long as the navigation glitch was specific to my review unit alone. Nevertheless, coming from Magellan, a long-time player in...

Inexpensive. Text-to-speech functionality. Multisegment routing. Eleven-million-POI database. Multimedia players. Two-year warranty.

Very minor user interface quirks detract only slightly from an otherwise excellent GPS device.

The Editors' Choice winning V7 NAV740 offers mid-market navigation features with entry-level pricing.

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Finally, the built-in multimedia player supports most audio, video and photo formats. The picture quality was outstanding for the size of the screen

Customization, ease of use, keyboard options, blanking of characters while typing, large POI base, speed of satellite detection, elevation reading, refresh rate while traveling, Multimedia (if that's your thing), bright screen with night mode,...

Voice does stutter a little on hard names though understandable, sometimes it is off by a few houses one way or the other (but many GPS's do the same). These are the only things that would otherwise make this unit perfect, IMO

Works as advertised. Installed a 16G SDHC and load all software and maps. Manual says you need FAT or FAT 16. FAT 32 is the only way you can format SDHC. Worked with tech support and decided to try FAT 32. It worked fine. It took a little time, but I...

Manual at times somewhat confusing, but tech support was able to help me through. Map data base could use some updating as some places and roads were not poperly named

text to speech ; good battery life (CHARGE THE UNIT UNTIL IT HAS A GREEN LIGHT BEFORE YOU USE IT! The instructions don't make this clear, but you NEED to let it charge for a couple of hours the first time) ; tons of POI's (~11-12million) ; recalculate...

has come close but missed a couple of POI's. Finds my house perfectly ; maps need updating. Doesn't have my office in the right spot (its about 5 years old) ; english female voice seems to crackle a bit, cant get it to make Dave the default voice ;...

Many good features in this product for the price

Text to speach is only available in english ; First unit I recieved crashed whenever exposed to tempratures less than 65 degrees ferenheight. New egg was fast in allowing me to return it ; Second unit randomly crashes and re-boots irrespective of...

Pre-load maps are up-to-date Movie/MP3 player works fine

Standard battery only last 1h or less USB connection not working on WinXP