Suppport Thread for the TND 500, TND 700 or future Rand McNally products.

Well I have had the TND 700 for 5 days, and I am not to impressed with it. I have been using GPS's for maybe 7 years now. I think I am going to take a look at the Garmin Dezl 560LMT.

The TND 700 just seems like it is very cheaply made. Not impressed with the Made in China sticker on the back of it either.

 

everything is made in china these days. that is just common to see. if u look at everything you buy from ipods to gps units to computers to shoes to clothes they are all made in china.

 

when you enter a destination it is on the page when you hit the calculate route button. look on the left. it is under the picture on the left side.

 

My speaker will break up when the power gets low. It also would break up when I had the wrong power supply which was not powerful enough to charge and use at the same time.

 

Including the Dezl.

 

all though used every GPS product out there since they became available never heard of that term what are bread crumbs refering to as per GPS terms

 

mark is there a place in the POI's that certain well known places that drivers deliver to such as walmart dc's home depots dc,Etc.can be found or do you have to put in a physical address

 

A lot of dc's aren't in the mapping database since they're not common addresses. I use google maps to look at the general area from space. Dc's stand out. Match up the nearest streets, touch the screen, and tell it to route to that point. When I get to the entrance, I save the exact position to the address book.

Speaking of which, it'd be nice if we could swap location info like that across one online database.

 

Gotta second what Kaji said. Also I strongly believe alot of problems that people have with this product are related to just turning it on and going. It took me years and years to get used to this. But I have to say after a few weeks of reading the small booklet that came with the unit and on my spare time just tinkering around with it. I am very impressed with my TND700 although sometimes it will goof up an NYC address but I believe nothing is perfect in life and a GPS means u still have to use common sense. (LoL) Sorry for the long rant but just talking about my thoughts on this GPS

 

I do a lot of home depot stores and their address are not always in the gps. Because the road is the name of the mall road. What I do is look up address of store on phone then look for cross streets in the area. Once you get close you can see a home depot sign a mile away.