 | Garmin StreetPilot 7200 7-Inch Portable GPS Navigator Brand : Garmin Model : 010-00400-10 Overall Rating :  From : 111 Reviews Color : / Size : |
Technical Details
- High-end automotive GPS navigator with 480-by-234-pixel 7-inch color TFT touch-screen display
- Text-to-speech technology announces the names of streets and delivers turn-by-turn directions
- Compatible for XM services (must purchase optional accessory GXM 30 for this feature to work)
- Includes MapSource City Navigator NT North America software with maps of U.S., Canada, and Puerto Rico
- Built-in A/V input for connecting portable DVD player; 7.5 x 4.5 x 2.2 inches (W x H x D); 1-year warranty
Product Description
The StreetPilot 7200's huge 7-inch touch-screen display means you'll always see where you're going, from anywhere in the vehicle. Designed for larger vehicles such as RVs, semi-trucks, and buses, it is a premium automotive unit that comes preloaded with City Navigator NT detailed maps of North America. With the purchase of an optional sensor (not included), the unit notifies the driver of accidents, road construction and weather-related traffic delays before they are encountered (requires subscription, traffic service only for select cities where coverage exists). Either of two optional purchase sensors can provide these features, the GTM 10 FM TMC traffic sensor or the GXM 30 Smart Antenna (separate purchase required). In addition to traffic data, the GXM 30 provides real-time satellite weather information. The 7200 model features all of Garmin's well-known GPS functions, including intuitive navigation and automatic route calculation; voice-prompted, turn-by-turn directions; 2D or 3D map view; and automatic rerouting if a motorist strays off course. With its POI Loader software, users can load custom points-of-interest such as school zones or safety cameras. The StreetPilot 7200 also includes entertainment options, including an internal MP3 player, XM radio, and playback of audio books. The built-in MP3 player lets users browse music by artist, album, song, or genre. The XM Radio (with the optional GXM 30 Smart Antenna and XM Satellite Radio subscription - not included) features 150-plus channels of commercial-free entertainment. The StreetPilot 7200 is also compatible, a subscription-based audio book service. The face of the StreetPilot 7200 only has one button, an on/off switch. Using simplicity to manage complexity is a hallmark of the quality from Garmin, the premier maker of GPS products.
Customer Reviews (see all-reviews)
D. Hart ( unionville,tn. ) Just took a motorcycle trip.Put in an address it was right on the mark,at the front door.only neg. thing it's not weather proof,but a clear baggie and you can keep on down the road!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I searched a lot of sites but amazon had the best prices!!!!!!
I searched a lot of sites but amazon had the best prices!!!!!!
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A. Black ( Montreal, Canada/New York ) I looked at many gps systems and found Garmin 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.
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T. T. Myers ( usa california ) great gps easy to see and operate i on two now one on my honda goldwing 1800 for 6 years and now one in my car its easy to useand has great fitures with mp 3 xm radio and video books to read and you can hook up a back video cam if you want to
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Charles L. Brown ( columbia, mo. usa ) THE GARMIN 7200 IS A BETTER UNIT THAN MY FACTORY SYSTEM IN A NEW VEHICLE---I AM LOOKING FOREWARD TO USING IT OUR MOTORHOME IN THE NEAR FUTURE-THE LETTERING IS LARGE AND SOOO CLEAR ////
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MW ( Miramar, Florida United States ) I have owned this GPS for a few weeks now and for a while debated on whether to keep it or return it. In the end, I have decided that the features I like about it outweigh the negatives, so I will stick with my purchase.
Here are the main features I like about it:
1. It has a large 7-inch screen, which is bright and sharp. This screen size is very difficult to find on any model of any brand and for me was the biggest selling feature.
2. It can play MP3 music, but keep in mind that this is the ONLY recordable format it can play. If you have wma files, for example, you will have to convert them to MP3.
3. It has a removable SD card that you can add music or POI files to. I use a 4GB card that it reads with no problem.
4. You can download POI files and categorize them. You can also add customized POI icons that appear on the map as you are driving. You can set an alert to inform you of the POI as you get close to the location, and choose the range at which you want the alert to sound.
5. You can use it to play XM radio through, with the additional purchase of an antenna Garmin GXM30 XM Satellite Antenna for GPSMap 376C, 7200 and 7500 (010-00423-00), which is fairly expensive, I might add.
6. With the XM radio added, the 7200 will download and display traffic information as well as weather information. This service costs extra to your regular XM subscription.
7. It has an audio out jack, so if your car radio has an auxiliary in jack you can hook it straight into your radio via a patch cable. When driving and listening to XM (or MP3), the music stops while it gives you street-named directions, and then the music comes back on again. Admittedly, this can get annoying if a song is on you like and several directions in a row come around. You can, however, turn the voice direction off and just watch the screen. You can also transmit through the FM radio, which I have not tried.
8. It does not require an external antenna for the GPS reception, although a jack for one is available on the back of the unit. I keep it on my dash and the GPS reception is great without one.
9. It mounts beautifully on a Garmin made bean bag mount Garmin Beanbag for Portable Friction Mount for Garmin GPS Units (Beanbag Only - Mount not Included). I have sitting in a crevace on the dash of an SUV and it does not block my vision at all, even with the large screen size.
10. The touch screen is great. Due to the screen size, it is very easy to read, very responsive, and sounds a pleasing little "click" every time you tap a key.
11. On the routing, it has a handy "take me home" key that can get you going that direction from wherever, quickly and easily.
Things I have found that are not so great:
1. This is probably the biggest one....the early reviewer who stated that it does not show street names in any detail is absolutely correct. I also own a Garmin Quest that is four years old and has a tiny screen, and it shows much, much more street detail than the 7200, even when the 7200 is zoomed in all the way. It does have the latest map and device software/firmware loaded. Oddly, though, the 7200 shows me the name of every single canal I cross over. Why Garmin would think I would want to see canal names instead of the names of the streets is beyond me.
2. It has steered me wrong on several occasions. When I am going to the airport, for example, it will try to take me across the city instead of via the freeway, even though I have it set for "fastest route." To avoid this, I now have it set so that it believes that the vehicle I am driving is a truck instead of a car. It also once sent me the completely wrong direction while I was in the Florida Keys. After six miles, it told me to make a u-turn. It also tries to take me down a street that is not a through-street when it is routing me home. My older Quest never gave me any of these routing errors.
3. I don't consider this a big deal, but it does not have an internal battery. So, if you want to take it indoors to enter an address, etc you will need to plug in the AC cord (provided).
4. When it takes you quite a few clicks to get to a screen to do something, it will take you just as many clicks to go back to where you started, normally the map view screen.
5. The XM radio interface is poorly designed. You have three sections for pre-set stations, and each section allows six choices. Moving from one section of pre-sets to the next is cumbersome. They should have set it up for either more favorite stations in each section or perhaps only two sections with nine entries.
Also be aware that this model is now discontinued by Garmin, so this will be about as good as it gets. Some of the newer models have things like the speed limit of the street you are on, vehicle icons that can be customized, etc. Every GPS has some features others don't, so careful research pays off.
I should also add that if you already have XM capability within your current car radio, this may not be the best choice. If you want to add the XM traffic feature, you have to add the cost of an additional radio as well...you can't just add the traffic update on its own.
In the final analysis though, because it offers MP3, XM, and a large screen size, I have decided to keep it. This probably sounds odd because the actual GPS capability of the unit is the least reason I decided to keep it. It isn't bad as far as providing directions, but from my experience it is far from perfect. Hope this long-winded review helped, thanks.
Here are the main features I like about it:
1. It has a large 7-inch screen, which is bright and sharp. This screen size is very difficult to find on any model of any brand and for me was the biggest selling feature.
2. It can play MP3 music, but keep in mind that this is the ONLY recordable format it can play. If you have wma files, for example, you will have to convert them to MP3.
3. It has a removable SD card that you can add music or POI files to. I use a 4GB card that it reads with no problem.
4. You can download POI files and categorize them. You can also add customized POI icons that appear on the map as you are driving. You can set an alert to inform you of the POI as you get close to the location, and choose the range at which you want the alert to sound.
5. You can use it to play XM radio through, with the additional purchase of an antenna Garmin GXM30 XM Satellite Antenna for GPSMap 376C, 7200 and 7500 (010-00423-00), which is fairly expensive, I might add.
6. With the XM radio added, the 7200 will download and display traffic information as well as weather information. This service costs extra to your regular XM subscription.
7. It has an audio out jack, so if your car radio has an auxiliary in jack you can hook it straight into your radio via a patch cable. When driving and listening to XM (or MP3), the music stops while it gives you street-named directions, and then the music comes back on again. Admittedly, this can get annoying if a song is on you like and several directions in a row come around. You can, however, turn the voice direction off and just watch the screen. You can also transmit through the FM radio, which I have not tried.
8. It does not require an external antenna for the GPS reception, although a jack for one is available on the back of the unit. I keep it on my dash and the GPS reception is great without one.
9. It mounts beautifully on a Garmin made bean bag mount Garmin Beanbag for Portable Friction Mount for Garmin GPS Units (Beanbag Only - Mount not Included). I have sitting in a crevace on the dash of an SUV and it does not block my vision at all, even with the large screen size.
10. The touch screen is great. Due to the screen size, it is very easy to read, very responsive, and sounds a pleasing little "click" every time you tap a key.
11. On the routing, it has a handy "take me home" key that can get you going that direction from wherever, quickly and easily.
Things I have found that are not so great:
1. This is probably the biggest one....the early reviewer who stated that it does not show street names in any detail is absolutely correct. I also own a Garmin Quest that is four years old and has a tiny screen, and it shows much, much more street detail than the 7200, even when the 7200 is zoomed in all the way. It does have the latest map and device software/firmware loaded. Oddly, though, the 7200 shows me the name of every single canal I cross over. Why Garmin would think I would want to see canal names instead of the names of the streets is beyond me.
2. It has steered me wrong on several occasions. When I am going to the airport, for example, it will try to take me across the city instead of via the freeway, even though I have it set for "fastest route." To avoid this, I now have it set so that it believes that the vehicle I am driving is a truck instead of a car. It also once sent me the completely wrong direction while I was in the Florida Keys. After six miles, it told me to make a u-turn. It also tries to take me down a street that is not a through-street when it is routing me home. My older Quest never gave me any of these routing errors.
3. I don't consider this a big deal, but it does not have an internal battery. So, if you want to take it indoors to enter an address, etc you will need to plug in the AC cord (provided).
4. When it takes you quite a few clicks to get to a screen to do something, it will take you just as many clicks to go back to where you started, normally the map view screen.
5. The XM radio interface is poorly designed. You have three sections for pre-set stations, and each section allows six choices. Moving from one section of pre-sets to the next is cumbersome. They should have set it up for either more favorite stations in each section or perhaps only two sections with nine entries.
Also be aware that this model is now discontinued by Garmin, so this will be about as good as it gets. Some of the newer models have things like the speed limit of the street you are on, vehicle icons that can be customized, etc. Every GPS has some features others don't, so careful research pays off.
I should also add that if you already have XM capability within your current car radio, this may not be the best choice. If you want to add the XM traffic feature, you have to add the cost of an additional radio as well...you can't just add the traffic update on its own.
In the final analysis though, because it offers MP3, XM, and a large screen size, I have decided to keep it. This probably sounds odd because the actual GPS capability of the unit is the least reason I decided to keep it. It isn't bad as far as providing directions, but from my experience it is far from perfect. Hope this long-winded review helped, thanks.
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Accessories
- Garmin MapSource MetroGuide of Denmark and Sweden for Garmin GPS Units (CD ROM)
- InstallerNet Navigation System InstallCard
- Garmin City Navigator Nordics for Detailed Maps of Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden (microSD/SD Card)
- Garmin City Navigator France for Detailed Maps of Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, and France (microSD/SD Card)
- Garmin City Navigator for Detailed Maps of the United Kingdom and Ireland (microSD/SD Card)
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