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Cobra GPSM 7700 Pro 7-Inch Widescreen Portable Truck GPS Navigator Description:

The Cobra GPSM 7700 Professional Driver Navigation has an easy to use, sleek, thin, and light-weight 7″ touch screen. This unit is equipped with AURA camera and driving hazard protection, which alerts drivers to speed and red light cameras, as well as speed traps and dangerous intersections. The Cobra GPSM 7700 also calculates the quickest travel route in accordance with national and state truck restrictions using the vehicle dimensions (height, width and weight). Additional features include ProMiles truck-specific points of interest which provides all major travel centers with detailed amenity information such as food options, internet access, shower availability and more! Using the TruckDown commercial vehicle service & support information, you can quickly and conveniently find towing companies, repair shops, truck-friendly motels, and emergency services. When it comes to your safety and convenience, Nothing Comes Close to a Cobra.

• Amazon Sales Rank: #7212 in Consumer Electronics
• Brand: Cobra
• Model: GPSM 7700
• Dimensions: 4.60″ h x 1.00″ w x 7.20″ l, 2.00 pounds

Features

• 7 inch touch screen
• Enhanced truck-specific routing
• Truck-specific points of interest powered by ProMiles
• Comercial vehicle service & support information powered by TruckDown
• AURA camera and driving hazard protection

Customer Reviews:

Poor graphics and zoom funtion.
I bought this unit for to use primarily in a truck because of the large 7″ screen. Right off the bat, I was disappointed because the screen resolution is very poor. While driving, as roads on the screen get larger, the poor resolution makes them blocky and jumpy. Honestly, I haven’t seen graphics this poor since I upgrade my PC from CGA to EGA! My first thought was, Why doesn’t the screen look as clear as it does in all the advertising pictures, and Why don’t the colors match the nice crisp green that’s shown Cobra’s web site and elsewhere? So I called Cobra’s tech support number, and was told that the product pictures on the web site and the product box and virtually everywhere else where only “artists concepts” and not pictures of the actual product! How’s that for truth in advertising! Although the multi-stop trip feature is good (it does show both the mileage to the next stop as well as the total trip mileage) there is no way to sort or group your locations. If you’ve got a lot of locations inputted and you want to find one at the end of the alphabet, you’ve got to scroll through the whole alphabet to get there. May not be a big deal to some, but it is annoying. Here’s the worst thing about the unit, and the thing that made me finally get rid of it… you CAN NOT zoom in or out while in navigation mode. The ONLY way to change the zoom level is to leave the navigation screen, go to the set-up screen, change the zoom setting, save your changes, AND THEN SHUT THE UNIT OF AND TURN IT BACK ON! Totally unacceptable! I like to keep the unit zoom out so I can see intersections and ramps coming up a mile or two away while on the highway, and then zoom in down to city block level when in the city or a more urban area. I’ve got two other units, a SONY for the car and now a Rand McNally TND-500 for the truck and this is a standard feature on both units. Bottom line… unless your virtually blind, stay away from this unit (and if your eyesight is that bad, you probably shouldn’t be driving anyway.)

Best I’ve used, Highly recommend
The Cobra is the third GPS I have owned. It is the best yet. I am a truck driver who uses it to find my way around. It does a great job both visually and with the spoken instructions. The seven inch screen is a big plus. It is very easy to do comparisons between different routes. At the lowest zoom levels, 400 or 800, feet you know exactly when to turn, a nice feature in the middle of the night with no street lights around and no street sign easily readible.

It is easy to set up, but only comes with a “Quick set up guide” you have to go on line for more full featured information. I don’t know if they have solved the problem yet, but when I first went on line I got the “Quick Guide”, and had to e-mail Cobra and they sent me back the address of the correct place to find the manual.

It can be set to the exact type of truck you drive, number of axles, weight, length, height and so on. When the unit first turns on it asks whether you have a car or truck.

The features like zoom, turn list, change route options, change from 2d to 3d are easy to do. You have a choice of different screen colors. The information on screen as you drive is exellent and easy to read. Like most things, the more you use it, the easier it becomes to operate.

While I highly recomment this unit I only gave it a four star rating because I would like to see perfection (something I am afraid will never occur in a GPS).

At times it will not let me input the exact address I am looking for. This may have to do with with the mail address (one town) and actual address (another town), sometimes it thinks a road is shorter than it is.

The routing system used in not always logical and can add extra miles to your trip. Not a good thing driving a truck that gets under six miles a gallon, at three bucks a gallon. If you know the way, go for it. If not you can trust this unit to get you there.

Lastly pay attention, as sometimes the vocal instructions say go one way and the arrow on the screen shows another. In my experience always trust the arrow. I have had it not route me on a road because it thinks there is a weight limit (there is not) and have it route me on a road with a weight limit. Like I said before these things are nowhere near being perfect.

All in All, I really like this unit, and would recommend it very highly.

When I bought this unit I was in a hurry (my last GPS had just crashed) I ordered it a 4:30 pm on a Friday and it was at my front door 9:00 am Saturday.

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BEST GPS FOR TRUCKERS…

I looked at many gps systems and found COBRA to probably be the best. I wanted a large screen because I didn’t want to have to squint or try and make out where I am going at freeway speeds on a four inch screen. This one is seven inches and that is easy to see. I can push enter my settings or searches or I can use a remote. I can sit back and use the remote to go where I want. Ease of use is there… for locations I can set it to home and push hoome and it goes there. If I like a place where I am at… I add it to favorites and then I can go there again and again… if I have searched for something and gone there… forgot how to get there or don’t want to put in a big complicated search… I go to recent searches and voila… there is is and I click on that… and then it finds it and then GO TO and it tells me how to go there. I have always been a little indimidated by gps systems… and the other guy things was I don’t need one… I can do it. I tell you… I have driven up into Canada where everything is FRENCH… and this thing told me step by step how to get around… it even offered me a baggette. Look… this is a great system… I actually bought two from amazon for they had the cheapest price…. I bought a portable one for my Moms car and I actually bought one for my truck that is permanent… but has no monitor… it works with the monitor I have and the sound comes out through my speakers and I can adjust it through my speakers… as to the sound on my Moms… I seriously thought it was going to be very weak… Not at all… it is perfect… you will have problems listening at all. For my Moms… she calls her Mrs. Worthington… because I did the English accent on hers… and mine is Sally because she just has a American accent… if there is such a thing. Bottom line… you will get VERY VERY lazy with these… you will not pay attention how to get to places and therefore you will not remember how to get there or learn it. You will GPS it every single time… that is the only bad thing about these that I can see. But if you do it a few times… to the same place… you will start to remember but then what fun is that if you don’t hear it say… in 1.5 miles… turn right… nothing is cooler than that. I will never go back