Customer Reviews

Teletype 720060 7-Inch Portable GPS Navigator

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The Worldnav Teletype 7200 series is a great idea. It is way over stated by the manufacturer. If you haul hazmat or over sized loads, this unit "may" be of benefit. Otherwise, go with a better known more feature packed unit like the Garmin or high end Magellan's. The address search is very cumbersome, the built in auto select feature is way out of wack. Usually not even in the same state.

It does have a totally useless USB interface. I have not been able to find a single ability in the unit that uses the USB. You are locked into using the old slow low capacity SD's. They require you to use their proprietary cards and you're ability to add music, ebooks or movies is very limited. The way it is set up, you pretty much have to have several low capacity cards and you have to change them whenever you want to switch from GPS modes to the entertainment modes.

To be brutally honest, with exception to the larger screen, this unit doesn't even begin to compare with a DUAL stereo/gps unit I bought at Walmart for under [.........]. You should save your money until these guys get a clue about what technology is actually about.

Teletype 720060 7-Inch Worldnav Truck Portable GPS Navigator

We thought we'd done our research, and chose to believe the positive reviews (about 50%) Big mistake. The graphics are primitive and dark, it's difficult to leave the map, do some searching and return to the map without potentially losing your route. Some common sense locations are missing or almost impossible to find: i.e., "Rest Areas"!!! The find features are cumbersome and it's difficult to guess what clues they want in order to provide the information you need. We chose to keep rather than pay a 15% restocking fee, even though we knew immediately out of the box that this was way overpriced and over stated. Our disappointment is huge, and if we could give a rating of less than one star we would. We ran it at the same time to compare with our other GPS (TomTom - also NOT recommended) and between the two, TomTom is better. The customer service people are pleasant and try, but even though we called immediately upon receipt trying to ship it right back, they wouldn't wave the restocking fee. We should have just paid it and taken the $90 hit. It would have been cheaper than keeping what I consider an inferior and highly overpriced product.

But neither can even be spoken of in the same breath as our new Garmin 255W. Heads and shoulders above both. For bridge heights/trucking compatibility - wait for the Garmin 465T due out the second quarter of 2009. We will buy as soon as available for RV'g, and sell the WorldNav on ebay.

im a commercial truck driver that delivers hazardous materials. I bought this product thinking it would help, but became a total nightmare. The minute I received the gps the sd card was corrupted so they needed to send me a new one. The device is extremely slow and is not accurate at all. I would not recommend this product to anyone else especially truck drivers. I return it in 3 weeks

I got this unit to drive my semi. Routing is excellent around Chicago and Indianapolis. I have this GPS for several month now. I love big screen. I used to play with Garmin and I could not see much.

I do not use this GPS for movies or for reading books. I think my DVD player in the truck probably better.

For routing I would strongly recommend. Big screen for a person of my age is must.
I have now couple of friends that purchased the unit from Pilot and are very happy.

I 'm just wondering why the battery is so weak. But other than that it seems to work well .

I purchased my system almost 1 year ago.
I think that my knowledge of roads in US is not very good. The WorldNav GPS system was a godsend to me.
On many occasions although it did not route it the way I thought it was right I followed it to find that suggested route is actually better.

I think it is the first time I had a system where I could call company to ask a question and not spend 2 hours to look for an answer in the manual.

Having 7 inch screen with a loud speaker is a plus for me. The battery does not last long if you unplug the device (It hink about 40 min) but then again I keep my GPS plugged in all the time.

I like that maps show restricted roads in PINK color and I can always click on the road to see why it is restricted. Another thing I like about the system is that updates are simple. They send you a new card and you just need to plug it in. No downloads that take hours and then do not work

I do not know how I managed to drive a truck without using commercial GPS. I purchased WorldNav on line and glad I did it. Screen is big and device looks rugged. Speakers are loud and routing is so far been great.
I travel a lot and having this type of GPS is essintial.
I like that device offers on the screen preview of route and shows all the restrictions as you travel.
Maps are updated 3 to 4 times per year and I like that.
Put recently rear view camera on the device. At the push of the button I can see on my screen clearly the rear view.

Any trucker that used this would toss this out the window so fast. Very unreliable. Very primitive graphics, truck routing is pretty much a gimmick. Any road that is not assigned a number designation is considered a restricted route. This is unreal and criminal if you ask me. They are selling technology from 2001 at top top dollar and the bottom line is, it don't even come close to doing what it promises it will. Please folks take my advice and do not waste your money on this. It is absolute junk. Any review that says other wise is written by a rep from this company. Call them and talk to them, they talk like a bunch of lawyers, it is rediculous.