7" (or larger) GPS Units

bluwtr49 wrote:
Based on the recommendation of some I downloaded co-pilot onto my phone and gave it a brief go alongside of my Garmin Nuvi. Not to bad but lacking a lot of feature of the Garmin and a bit more cumbersome to use. Small problem in that the map never did scroll so once my location scrolled off the map I was sort of lost. Must be a configuration setting I missed and can not find.

Looked at some WiFi only tablets and found some nice 10" ones in the $250.00 range but nothing for dash mounting so that's an issue. I figure that buying all the "stuff" to dash mount a tablet will somewhat north of $400.00 but that's not too bad since a 7" Garmin goes for ~290.00 What I did notice on the Copilot setting is that it want's cellular service and I want to run it on WiFi.....Is this a real issue or not.

If co-pilot doesn't work, try Trucker Path Pro, In-Route, Waze, or Navigon. For $49.99 you can even have the Garmin program on your iPad or phone. I had the same problem with co-pilot until I paid the in-app upgrade.

You'll need the cellular-capable iPads rather than the WiFi only. The cellular iPads have GPS chips built in. But you don't have to activate the cellular to use it.

The dash mounts are cheap. Do a search on Amazon and you'll find the perfect one for you for well under $40.00.

The Co-Pilot should work on wifi.