NaviNavi Nav7 20GB 7-Inch Portable GPS Navigator

Mon, Apr 26, 2010

Large 7″ 16.9 Touch Screen
20 GB Hard Drive
2006 Navteq US Maps Loaded
Plays MP3 Files
RCA Output

Product Description
Listen to music and get turn-by-turn directions, all with one device. The NAV7 car navigation GPS system. It has a giant 7 inch digital touch screen with a color display, 20GB hardrive for plenty of music and map storage, and turn-by-turn voice navigation…. More >>

NaviNavi Nav7 20GB 7-Inch Portable GPS Navigator

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5 Comments For This Post

Min Bang Says:
April 26th, 2010 at 1:46 am

It seemed like working ok in the begging but POI did not work.

If you do not mind using POI then it is ok navigator.

The screen is 7″ but the letters and the contents are too small to view.

Good luck.
Rating: 1 / 5

David Matovich Says:
April 26th, 2010 at 4:23 am

This product is complete junk. It’s so bad that the manufacturer (Nextar) has no evidence of there link to the product on thier website. They offer no software or map updates. I was going to use it as a digital juke box. However, the MP3 player will only play 1 song then stop. You cannot set up playlists, or play more than 1 song in a row without picking the next song and pressing play each time. Also, It typically will freeze up after playing 1 to 3 selections. The only usefull thing I can see for this is to use it as an expensive, but flickering night light. Run Away, run away!!!!!
Rating: 1 / 5

Samantha B Says:
April 26th, 2010 at 5:56 am

I purchased the GPS at a clearance center (they do have lots of really good items there as well) thank goodness I took a guarantee because I am returning it, it’s a piece of junk, unable to access anything for Canada, even if you type it in, but the most disappointing thing was that you can’t upgrade the software. Looked into the original setup of it and it’s 2003 with some setup from March 2008, refurbed I guess, although that’s not how it was advertised.
Rating: 1 / 5

J. Power Says:
April 26th, 2010 at 8:34 am

I bought my unit from “Woot” (never again),,, the antenna wire broke off so I had to go internal and solder a permanent connection. The on/off button broke and I now use a toothpick to turn it on. All POI’s are totally wrong and there is no “fix”, the print on the screen is too small for even the youngest eyes, Nextar will not support it’s product!!!

Useful as a navigator but there are MUCH better GPS products out there!
Rating: 1 / 5

C. Koch Says:
April 26th, 2010 at 10:33 am

This is yet another (not so) cheap Chinese knockoff that fails to deliver. It seems to be a product that was made “good enough” to put in a box and sell, but the software on it is nowhere near what I would consider a complete, functional, product. If the software was high quality things might be different, but it’s not. The company responsible is either gone or moved on to their next sub-par product, so what you get is what you get. No fixes, no updates. The company that did the GPS software won’t acknowledge this things existence, so once again, no fixes, no updates.

The user interface is balky and buggy. Trying to drag the map around with your finger just causes it to jerk in different directions in a way that defies logic. When you go into screen setup options, there is only a “calibrate” utility which locks up when you try to use it. You’d expect there to be things like brightness and contrast settings, but there aren’t. The little window that looks like it was designed for a light sensor has nothing behind it. The things that do work seem to do so in balky or non-intuitive ways. No useful instructions come with it. No explanation of things like how to download MP3s to it. It’s not that hard to figure out, but still… There’s a USB host port on it, but unless they happened to put some drivers in the Linux kernel, it’s a useless port. The 20GB hard drive… works. That’s about the only good thing I can say about it. It appears all you can do with it is plop MP3s on it and play them. The software to actually play them is very primitive. I doubt Apple is worried about Ipod competition from this.

The thing that should be a shining light is the 7″ display. Decent brightness and good resolution, but, and you knew there had to be a but, it flickers. It appears the processor they used couldn’t drive this resolution past 60Hz (or thereabouts). There is noticeable flicker, especially when you aren’t looking directly at it, which is precisely where this thing will be most of the time. That’s inexcusable for a product like this. The 7″ display also turns out to be too large for wind shield mounting. It’s hard to put it above the dash without blocking part of your view.

The GPS part does seem to work, though I’ve had it report me a mile due east of where I actually am. Dunno what was up with that.

OK, I can think of one thing that’s OK. They used a RAM ball mount as the windshield mount, which is a common mount for assorted gadgets on motorcycles, so I might be able to use the windshield mount for something else.

If someone had hacked it and found a path into the Linux OS, you might be able to figure out some useful things to do with it, but I don’t think anyone has done that.

I got it cheap ($199 shipped). I’ll probably figure out something to do with it, though I’m not sure what at the moment. I see ‘geeks has pumped the price up to $353. Don’t even give this thing a thought at that price. Unless someone comes up with a way to add/upgrade the software, don’t consider this at any price. You won’t like it.
Rating: 1 / 5

Min Bang Says:
April 26th, 2010 at 1:46 am
It seemed like working ok in the begging but POI did not work.

If you do not mind using POI then it is ok navigator.

The screen is 7″ but the letters and the contents are too small to view.

Good luck.
Rating: 1 / 5
David Matovich Says:
April 26th, 2010 at 4:23 am
This product is complete junk. It’s so bad that the manufacturer (Nextar) has no evidence of there link to the product on thier website. They offer no software or map updates. I was going to use it as a digital juke box. However, the MP3 player will only play 1 song then stop. You cannot set up playlists, or play more than 1 song in a row without picking the next song and pressing play each time. Also, It typically will freeze up after playing 1 to 3 selections. The only usefull thing I can see for this is to use it as an expensive, but flickering night light. Run Away, run away!!!!!
Rating: 1 / 5
Samantha B Says:
April 26th, 2010 at 5:56 am
I purchased the GPS at a clearance center (they do have lots of really good items there as well) thank goodness I took a guarantee because I am returning it, it’s a piece of junk, unable to access anything for Canada, even if you type it in, but the most disappointing thing was that you can’t upgrade the software. Looked into the original setup of it and it’s 2003 with some setup from March 2008, refurbed I guess, although that’s not how it was advertised.
Rating: 1 / 5
J. Power Says:
April 26th, 2010 at 8:34 am
I bought my unit from “Woot” (never again),,, the antenna wire broke off so I had to go internal and solder a permanent connection. The on/off button broke and I now use a toothpick to turn it on. All POI’s are totally wrong and there is no “fix”, the print on the screen is too small for even the youngest eyes, Nextar will not support it’s product!!!

Useful as a navigator but there are MUCH better GPS products out there!
Rating: 1 / 5
C. Koch Says:
April 26th, 2010 at 10:33 am
This is yet another (not so) cheap Chinese knockoff that fails to deliver. It seems to be a product that was made “good enough” to put in a box and sell, but the software on it is nowhere near what I would consider a complete, functional, product. If the software was high quality things might be different, but it’s not. The company responsible is either gone or moved on to their next sub-par product, so what you get is what you get. No fixes, no updates. The company that did the GPS software won’t acknowledge this things existence, so once again, no fixes, no updates.

The user interface is balky and buggy. Trying to drag the map around with your finger just causes it to jerk in different directions in a way that defies logic. When you go into screen setup options, there is only a “calibrate” utility which locks up when you try to use it. You’d expect there to be things like brightness and contrast settings, but there aren’t. The little window that looks like it was designed for a light sensor has nothing behind it. The things that do work seem to do so in balky or non-intuitive ways. No useful instructions come with it. No explanation of things like how to download MP3s to it. It’s not that hard to figure out, but still… There’s a USB host port on it, but unless they happened to put some drivers in the Linux kernel, it’s a useless port. The 20GB hard drive… works. That’s about the only good thing I can say about it. It appears all you can do with it is plop MP3s on it and play them. The software to actually play them is very primitive. I doubt Apple is worried about Ipod competition from this.

The thing that should be a shining light is the 7″ display. Decent brightness and good resolution, but, and you knew there had to be a but, it flickers. It appears the processor they used couldn’t drive this resolution past 60Hz (or thereabouts). There is noticeable flicker, especially when you aren’t looking directly at it, which is precisely where this thing will be most of the time. That’s inexcusable for a product like this. The 7″ display also turns out to be too large for wind shield mounting. It’s hard to put it above the dash without blocking part of your view.

The GPS part does seem to work, though I’ve had it report me a mile due east of where I actually am. Dunno what was up with that.

OK, I can think of one thing that’s OK. They used a RAM ball mount as the windshield mount, which is a common mount for assorted gadgets on motorcycles, so I might be able to use the windshield mount for something else.

If someone had hacked it and found a path into the Linux OS, you might be able to figure out some useful things to do with it, but I don’t think anyone has done that.

I got it cheap ($199 shipped). I’ll probably figure out something to do with it, though I’m not sure what at the moment. I see ‘geeks has pumped the price up to $353. Don’t even give this thing a thought at that price. Unless someone comes up with a way to add/upgrade the software, don’t consider this at any price. You won’t like it.
Rating: 1 / 5

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