Product Description

4" TFT LCD PND, Slim and Compact Design, >5.5hr Battery Life, Text to Speech, Real Time Traffic + 3 Month Subscription, 7M POIs, Pre-loaded US & Canada MAP

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #22366 in Consumer Electronics
• Color: Glossy black
• Brand: LG
• Model: LN-740
• Dimensions: 3.50" h x 4.50" w x .70" l, .70 pounds
• Native resolution: 320 x 240
• Display size: 4

Features

• 4-inch touch-screen LCD color display with 320 x 240 pixels of resolution, selectable 2D/3D maps, and day/night views
• Turn-by-turn voice guidance with 16 different language options and street-name announcements, and complete maps of North America
• Includes millions of POIs, text-to-speech, real-time traffic information, an MP3 music player, and a photo viewer with slideshow functionality
• Highly-accurate SiRF Star III GPS receiver, internal lithium-ion battery, 1 GB flash memory, and an SD card slot
• Weighs 0.35 pounds, measures 4.3 x 3.2 x 0.7 inches (W x H x D), and is backed by a manufacturer's 1-year warranty

Amazon.com Product Description
The LG LN740 Portable Navigation Device is highly portable, coming in at less than 0.8 inches wide, yet is also incredibly powerful. With all the functionality you need to get you where you are going in the best possible fashion, the LN740 not only provides you with accurate GPS navigation, but includes convenience features that make your trip more enjoyable as well.

The LG LN740 features a brilliant 3.5-inch touch-screen, and selectable 2D and 3D maps that are easy to read. View larger.

The turn-by-turn voice guidance system is pre-loaded with a map of North America.

The navigator includes up to 1.7-million POI's (points of interest).

The LG LN740 utilizes a brilliant, four-inch touch-screen LCD display with 320 x 240 pixels of resolution and 260,000 colors. This screen provides you with clear, selectable 2D and 3D map views and menus that are easy to read at a glance, and features auto zoom, and day and night views that you can manually switch to, ensuring you can see no matter what your lighting conditions. And not only does this navigator quickly display your routing based upon your user-selected preferences, but provides you with turn-by-turn voice guidance with 16 different language options, even announcing street names so you can keep your eyes on the road during more stressful driving circumstances. As an added convenience, the LN740 also provides you with text-to-speech voice guidance in English, Spanish or French. And especially important to the daily commuter, this unit provides you access to Traffic Information Service (comes with a free 90-day trial), so you can outsmart road delays with access to real-time traffic information in 50 North American cities.

Pre-loaded with complete maps of the United States (including Puerto Rico) and Canada, the LN740 comes ready for you to travel throughout North America right out of the box. This navigator even includes millions of POIs (points of interest) so you can quickly find restaurants, gas stations, airports, hotels, ATMs, and other important nearby services, and instantly route to them with a simple tap on the screen, giving you local expertise at your fingertips. And while you are getting there, the LN740 provides you with speed indication, estimated time of arrival, and distance to your destination. This unit also provides you with a multi-stop planner, detour options, fastest and shortest routing options, and an automatic route recalculation, as well as vehicle and pedestrian navigation modes so you can take it with you when you are out of the car and walking the last stretch.

More than just a convenient navigation device, the LN740 has a built-in MP3 music player so you can take all your favorite songs with you to listen to on the road. What's more, this unit includes a photo viewer that allows you to bring you family photos with you, or view your favorite pictures from the trip while you are still on vacation, and even play them as a digital slide-show while travel. The music player accepts both MP3 and WMA digital music formats, while the photo viewer can display either JPEG or BMP digital pictures. And though the controls and menu system are extremely simple and intuitive, if you need a bit of assistance, this unit provides a handy on-screen help system.

The LN740 achieves fast, and highly accurate mapping with a strong signal reception via its SiRF Star III GPS receiver, and provides you with up to six hours of use from its rechargeable, internal lithium-ion battery. The LN740 comes with 2 GB of internal flash memory for storing maps, POIs, MP3s, and photos, as well as including an SD card slot for unlimited memory expansion, a USB port for fast data transfers from your PC, and an FM RDS-TMC antenna jack for receiving real-time traffic information. The stylish black-on-black LG LN740 navigation device weighs only 0.44 pounds, measures just 4.5 x 3.5 x 0.7 inches (W x H x D), and is backed by a manufacturer's one-year warranty.

What's in the Box
LG LN740 portable navigator, a windshield mount, a dashboard mount disc, a 12-volt car power adapter, a home AC power adapter, FM traffic antenna, a carrying case, a USB cable, a back-up map CD, a back-up installation CD, a quick-start guide, a user's manual CD and warranty information.

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Customer Reviews

Great GPS - Exceeded expectations
After reading mixed reviews I decided to give this unit a try. Coming from a Lowrance Iway 500c, I was looking for the newer sirfstar III receiver as well as faster routing and quicker satellite acquisition. The LG excelled at all three.

- Great satellite acquisition times, about 5 min for the first cold start and then almost instantaneous for subsequent reconnections. The unit has a sleep feature which seems to keeps the unit on similar to that of a laptop without having to reload maps, the OS, etc.

- Quick routing takes under 5 seconds for the initial destination. If you miss a turn, the unit reroute quick enough to make the next turn. Likewise, the logic of the system is pretty good, which will take to on a different route if optimal rather than trying to get you to U-turn back.

- Very accurate location plotting compared to my old GPS. I was impressed by the system mapping me on which lane direction i was traveling (North vs South, etc) and the maps included even the small police-only paths located in the medians.

- The display and speaker both seemed lacking at first in terms of brightness and sound quality, but upon actually use on a 2 day trip in the NY/NJ/PA area and over 300 miles of driving I found that everything worked well. The screen once located about 2-3 feet away on the windshield looks more than acceptable and the speaker works great once you get used to what it sounds like and to somewhat listen for it if you are blasting your music. The layout is simple yet effective, showing your distance to next turn, and the unit doesnt annoying repeat commands from too far away (go straight for 10 miles, 5 miles, then 2 miles etc).

For the price and the features you cant go wrong. No GPS is perfect -- the garmins Nuvi's dont have multistop routing and the TomTom One still uses Teleatlas maps. Both are more expensive and dont include text-to-speech which makes it a difficult comparison. Going to their next series with advanced features adds on another $200-300 or nearly double the cost. Give the LG a chance and I think you will be pleasantly surprised.

Good and bad
I bought this unit when it first came out, because it has the TMC (FM traffic update) built in and a 4-inch screen for much less than the Garmin. Before this I bought the TOMTOM One.

Overall, this unit has been good. It does what the box says it does... But here are my improvements...

1. The map is still 2006 even though it was released in 2007. (the TOMTOM had a newer map)
2. Points of Interest (POI) - lets you find spots by category, either near destination or current location. An option for along the route would be good. Also...sometimes it is hard to figure what category something is in. there is no general search by company name. (It does however have a nice feature that I can click on say Starbucks, and it shows all the Starbucks as I drive by them - kind of nice)
3. When in the menus, you have to keep backing out to get back to the map (sometimes several clicks while driving). It would be nice to have one button to go back to the map.
4. When it calculates routes... I am not sure the logic takes into account turns. It often has me making more lefts and rights than is needed.
5. Traffic updates... it automatically recalculates routes to advoid traffic, but I get the feeling it does not advoid traffic congestion until it is with 3-5 miles. On long routes where I could take two freeways... one is closed. It has me take the closed on then, I notice it changes the route when I approach the closed part of the freeway, instead of in the beginning.

So... I am not sure how this compares to other units. I only had the TOMTOM for a day, but it needed a wireless internet connection from a PDA or something to get traffic updates. If you have a wireless connection or don't want the traffic feature, I like the TOMTOM better. Otherwise, this is a good unit for the price.

Value leader until Garmin lowers prices
I bought this unit after experiencing the frustrations of using a rental Garmin carnav that did not have text-to-speech capability. Just try to navigate DC's traffic circles with the instructions of "turn right in 200 feet"....yes, but which right turn?
The LN 740 gives plenty of warning before an upcoming turn. The screen is large enough to see most upcoming turns and read the street/route name as well as hear the spoken name. On the other hand, the name pronunciations are really strange: e.g. "stay right on traffic L-O-O-P 81", with Loop spelled instead of spoken. Can't handle hispanic names at all - Cervantes street is spoken Cer-VANTS instead of Cer-VAN-teez, Camino is CAM-in-o. The machine's voice is tinny and mildly unpleasant but readily understandable except for the strange pronunciations. Uses the Navtec mapping algorithm (same as Yahoo) which is currently regarded as the strongest system for use in USA although not in Europe. Just gave it a good testing in Austin, Texas, which is unknown territory for me. While it was important to look at the map as well as listening to upcoming changes, all in all it performed very well.
It did have two significant character flaws - directed me twice to turn onto a one-way street against legal traffic flow and it does not differentiate major streets from minor ones. The latter flaw led to following a serpentine path through residential neighborhoods and meeting many stop signs rather than simply following major thoroughfares. I learned how to offset this by using the avoid feature for any leg on the route shorter than .5 mile, forcing the program use a more direct route. The points of interest feature was quite detailed, allowing for rapid route selection to selected restaurants, museums, the airport, etc. so long as they were in the database. If one entered the address, the routing was not nearly so accurate, often being 4-5 blocks under or over. The street would be right but the fact that most commercial buildings do not use visible address numbers would then add to the challenge of finding an exact address while driving in heavy traffic. I tried using the unit portably as a pedestrian but found it confusing and did much better using a simple tourist map.
Do download Microsoft's most recent version of RapidSync because the version on the installation CD will not work. Several evening calls to the support line reached a recording asking for my number for a later call back that never came. I still want to know how I can get updated map and POI versions.
If TomTom goes with the Navtec mapping in the US, it will be the best car navigator. Until it does or its current mapping system improves, the upper level Garmins (text to speech capable) are the best, but MUCH more expensive than LG's LN 740. I would pose this unit as the value leader. While a $200 differential exists, I would continue to choose this one.