Product Description

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #18725 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

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

LG enters navigation market well
The LG LN740 is a great product. This is the first navigation device that I have owned, but I truly love it. The large screen makes it easy to read and the menu system is easy to navigate. The directions are clear and precise.
There have been a couple of times where the GPS was unable to locate my position and on a few occasions the GPS has frozen up completely which requires a full shutdown. This has only happened about 3 times in the year that I have owned it. My main frustration with the GPS is that there is no menu option for the number of times that it notifies you about an upcoming turn. The GPS tells you four times that a turn is coming. Once at 1 mile, once at 1/2 a mile, once at 1/5 of a mile, and finally at the actual location. I have resulted to turning the volume all the way down. If I could change this in the menus somewhere, I think I would have rated this GPS a full 5 stars.

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.

Listen to its voice before buying.
I own this GPS for a few weeks. Bought it because of very good reviews and value. This is what I don't like based on my short expirience. The most important: Voice sounds very distorted. It's like listening to radio without fine tuning. It's so annoying, I'm surprised other reviewers didn't notice it. There is only one voice you can use with TTS-American English female voice. There are so many voices in Tom Tom I have in my work truck! It's not very accurate. Tells me my home is 0.2 miles ahead when I'm on my driveway. Takes me to major highway far away from the route instead of using nice county and local roads. May be it would be faster if not numerous traffic lights and congestion on that route. It spells NJ Turnpike as "North J Turnpike". Tells me turn left and right when the road keeps straight and so on. It had me turn to what happend to be dead end while I should have just stayed straight on the road. I travel north on NJT and there is a place where it splits into car and truck lanes so LG wants me to take truck lane (???). At my exit there is a very dangerous place where I have to quickly cross 2 busy lanes to get on Rt.18 instead Rt.1. You better know such thing in advance to make it. But my LG doesn't tell me anything. Every time you turn it on you have to push Agreement button first. When you're off road on parking lot and turn it on it doesn't tell which way to turn on the road. You have to start moving on the road before it figures out. I looked for train stations in POI-they not there, just a few major stations (we have dozens of different stations here in NJ). Although there are all kinds of museums in it which I do like. Bottom line: I could live with other cons but the voice is too bad.
My advise-listen to it before buying and remember that it will sound worse in confined space of you car.