Customer Ratings & Reviews

It was to hard to install. When I tried to return it, I was told I couldn't. When I asked for help installing it they said "No". I called Rand and they responded the same

The Rand McNally Overdryve is an excellent GPS that works exceptionally well in every area that it has usage. *The initial setup was a breeze! The GPS operates off Android 5.1 Lollipop which is a big plus for me being that I have several products that operates with Android. Firstly, I connected to my Wi-Fi instantaneously without any connection problems. Thereafter, I paired my Bluetooth connection without any problems causing all 200 plus contacts to sync without problems. I believe this was due in part because my cell phone operates on the Android system. *Messaging-the messaging system works fine. I love the fact that I am able to text and talk hands free while driving! *Entertainment-I love the fact also I was able to connect to my Pandora Radio Account without any problems. This was by far the biggest plus for me due to the fact the music that I am used to hearing in my home; I am now able to hear within my car. AWESOME SAUCE!!! *Navigation-Overdryve comes with a map that is very accurate with directions. A big plus is that Rand McNally offers a life time of updates! *The biggest con that I see is that the tablet doesn’t have a direct connection to Wi-FI while in the car. I found this to be a grave disappointment. While the tablet connected fine within my home to my Wi-Fi, but when am in the car, I rely on connections via Bluetooth and hot spots which are paired with my phone. Overall, I think Rand McNally did a great job with this product because of all the wonderful features that come with the tablet. I truly think the tablet/GPS system is worth the money if a person is able to invest in it. My car is an older foreign make that does not have a GPS; therefore, this unit is a welcomed edition because of the various functionalities that it has.

When I first heard about this new tablet I was very interested in trying it out. I applaud Rand McNally for this innovative thinking. It can do a wide range of things and I was able to try out pretty much all of them. To start, the tablet packaging was top notch. A nice magnetic flap on a strong cardboard box stuffed to the gills with protective foam, with cutouts for the tablet and all the extras that come with it. And there are a lot of them. You don't need to buy or scrounge up anything. They provide it all, the suction cup windshield attachment, an adhesive plastic disc (in case you want to mount it on your dashboard), an audio cable, mobile charging cable, usb cable with an AC charging unit and an antenna. Upon power up the unit walks through the set up steps that allow you to connect to WI-fi and Bluetooth and register your tablet. The touch screen is beautiful with rich colors and good resolution that's comparable to standard tablets on the market. It's responsive without being overly touchy, far better than most GPS devices I've tried. The mounting device that you use to hold the Overdryve is a really unique and well thought out holder. It attaches to your windshield and the base of it allows you to connect the mobile charger, the audio cable and an accessory antenna (also included). None of these things are connected directly to the tablet. The tablet itself uses a magnet in the base to adhere itself to the holder and has contacts for all the various cables signals that are already connected to the base. This allows for really quick and easy connection by just holding the tablet close to the base and the magnet draws it onto the base and centers it for you. Removal is just as easy, just grab the tablet and go. No fiddling with special clips. This is a really great idea. The tablet itself looks good and has a brushed aluminum looking bezel and the back has a really nice rubbery tactile feel to it. Buttons are placed well and are different sizes and shapes so it's easy to find the one you want without looking directly at them. The phone and messaging features function as you would expect and you use your phones commands to communicate with it. It understood my Google Voice commands pretty well, and any trouble I did have was likely more my fault due to my inexperience with these commands. You can make and answer calls, dictate and have text messages read, play music, etc.. The navigation portion really looks good and the GPS uses a much nicer voice than the mechanical sounding Google Voice. I didn't get to use this feature much yet, but it seems to work well. GPS devices I already own and use always allow you to input a Home address that you can access by simply hitting the Home button when you want to return from your trip, this is a nice feature I've gotten used to using that doesn't seem to be on this GPS I'm sorry to say. It could be that I'm just not familiar with Rand McNally enough yet. The camera features are plentiful. You can use it as a backup camera if you add an accessory camera above your rear license plate. I didn't do this so I can't comment on the interaction. But you can also use it with the built in forward facing camera that you can use as a dash cam, a collision warning system and if you're driving into a nice sunset that you would like a photo of, you can take a snapshot, or even a video of it. It also has a cabin camera that faces the inside of the vehicle. There's also a monitoring system that you can use if you purchase the accessory OBD-II Dongle which plugs into the port that's usually right under the steering wheel on most cars. This seems like it would be a great feature. I didn't purchase the dongle, but there is apparently a huge amount of data that you can see about your car's engine. And additionally, if you purchase the accessory valve stem sensors, you can read each tires pressure and temperature. Personally I would find this very interesting and useful especially since this device is being marketed for slightly older cars or ones that don't have a full gauge cluster. What I was really anxious to try were the music features. The Overdryve will let you stream music from you phone or play it from the uSD drive that it has (which to me is a really bonus feature). From reading the limited documentation, it seems that you can also use apps that you can download to the tablet to stream music from various sources. I didn't have any luck with this feature. The Apple app store or the Google Play store are not available to download apps from. Instead you're given a choice of several other sources to download apps from. Being as this is basically an Android OS I tried to load Google Music to it, but alas, even though I found it in one of the other app stores, I was not able to get it to run on the tablet. Oh well. Since my car is a little older, I don't have an audio jack on my stereo, so I decided to use the FM Transmitter. I've used these types of devices before and have had good luck with them. The Overdryve comes with it's own antenna, so I expected better performance than the FM transmitters I have used previously. My experience with the Overdryve transmitter has been, in a word, frustrating. I've tried literally 12 to 15 different stations and they have all ended up having static on them. I have never had to try more than about three stations with my other transmitters before I was able to find a station that would give me crystal clear reception of my music. Since I don't have an audio jack, this is very disappointing. That aside, it will stream music from my phone and I can play music from the uSD card I loaded, but all in all the music feature has been far from what I had hoped and expected. I've seen several screen shots of the music player and it doesn't look anything like what I have on mine. The screen shots show a nice big picture of the artist and has large transport buttons that would be easy to use. What I see on my device, is a tiny 1" x 1" picture of the album cover in the top left corner. The artist, album and song next to it. There's also buttons for repeat, shuffle and list view. All of these graphics are crammed into the top left quarter of the screen with the microscopic transport buttons showing up at the bottom. They are so small it's actually really difficult to hit them without looking closely for them. It actually looks like a phone sized app that was used for a tablet sized device. Very un-cool. In fact aside from the main screen, text on this tablet is ridiculously tiny, even if you go into the settings and change the text size to large, that doesn't affect the text size anywhere but on the main screen. This tablet would have gotten a much higher overall review from me but the lack of smooth interaction (especially with the music player), and the overall text size on all the apps is a bit of a show stopper. The developers need to actually use the device in a real word environment to fully understand where the short comings are. I believe the usability issues could (and most likely will) be fixed with future firmware updates, but for now, I find it a bit tedious to use. I will continue to play with it though and as I stated in the beginning, the hardware is really nice and there are some really well designed features on this tablet, but unfortunately, for anyone to embrace it, it needs to be much more user friendly with intuitive ways to get to what you need to get to, without squinting at it while you're driving.

I purchased this item to work on an older car. The syncing with your phone via radio is awful. It is extremely static and you won't enjoy your music.

This product stopped working after a few months. It wouldn't even turn on. It wasn't easy to use when it was working.

I've been using my Overdryve for a couple of weeks, including one extended road trip. It's definitely a step up from what traditional GPS devices provide, but will probably be let down for anyone already happy with their smartphone for navigation. The Overdryve is essentially a 7" Android tablet with some key differences: (1) Rand McNally's navigation software is pre-installed (2) There's a magnetic docking system to allow for easy connection to the dashboard/windshield mount (3) Some major features of the Android OS (like the Google app store or ability to synchronize with your Google account) are disabled That third point makes things a bit clunky. For example, Rand McNally left Android's built-in Calendar and Contacts apps. Since I am already using Google for those services, it would be great to sync them, and have addresses for both my contacts and my appointments right there on the device. Unfortunately, since they've disabled the feature to link my Google account, the Calendar and Contacts apps remain empty... and pretty useless to me. I did like the large screen with easy to read display, and the nice loud sound that comes through the amplified speaker in the Overdryve dashboard/windshield mount. Also, since my vehicle is older, and doesn't have a built in wired or wireless connection to my smartphone, the Overdryve's FM transmitter feature allowed me to listen to media from my phone through my car speakers. The dash cam feature was nice to have, but the software requires manually launching the camera each time. I would much prefer an option to run the camera anytime navigation is active, and have the system automatically make room for new recordings by replacing older ones (unless I've marked them specifically for retention). The navigation was about as good as the app built into my smartphone, but without live traffic information. I had to manually enter addresses for most of my destinations, though, which got annoying. There is a database of Points of Interest built into the Overdrive, but at least half of the places on my road trip were not listed (including a national brand hotel in a major tourist area). I couldn't help but compare that experience to my smartphone, which allows me to search for almost anything on the Internet (hotels, restaurants, tourist attractions, businesses, shopping outlets, etc.) then just tap on the Navigate button to begin my trip. After a couple of weeks of use, I switched back to my Smartphone. The driving directions are just as good, and the convenience of having all of my other information sources (email, contact list, calendar, internet) feed addresses directly into the navigation system is much more useful to me than the unique features that Overdryve provides.

The Rand McNally Overdryve was fairly easy to install and set up. There was one extra mounting plate that came with it that I did not use and am not sure what it is for. Setting up the integrations were straightforward except I was a little confused with setting the audio through the car stereo. I ended up using the built-in speakers, and like that better anyway. At first, I questioned whether this was redundant with my smartphone. I quickly realized the advantages of the Overdryve! The navigation system is great - I like it being on a larger screen. Plus it informs you of the speed limit (warns you of upcoming speed changes too), dirt roads, and construction. The other features I found useful were the phone calling and camera. I usually wear my bluetooth earpiece for calling while driving, but that can irritate my ear. This allows me to easily talk and drive safely. The camera features are amazing - with dash cam being very easy to see and operate. I was concerned at first with the size of the device (about tablet size), but it does not hinder visibility at all. I was also concerned with the weighted base moving (I believe this is a separate accessory), but it seems to be staying in place securely on the dash. I think the text messaging may be distracting, so I have chosen not to sync those for the time being. My husband is considering hooking up the OBDII for vehicle diagnostics. One of the best features is the magnetic hookup between the tablet and the base. It makes connecting the tablet quick and easy. I take the unit off it's base when parked so it does not tempt thieves. Overall, a surprisingly useful device! I'm very happy with it and look forward to using it more.

Retuning item rand McNally needs to describe more fully did not fit my application cords to short

Looking to bring it back got it for a Christmas the system dosent work like I expected it to

I wondered about creating a GPS system nowadays with so many people having their smartphones with their own GPS functionality or with most cars coming with some kind of infotainment system, but after using the OverDryve 7 for the last two weeks, I think it is a great system and is a no-brainer for anyone looking to add GPS functionality to their car. First off, my favorite thing about this device is the mounting bracket. I kid you not. One of the things I always hated about car GPS systems was having to lock it in place and reconnect the power and such. In the process of doing that I would invariably mess with my carefully set up positioning and would have to do it all over again. The Overdryve has an awesome bracket that you keep set up in your car and plugged in to everything and the Overdryve unit itself links via magnets and the connections are made through little contacts on the back. Easy-peasy. On top of that, the basestation also has an additional GPS antenna to improve location accuracy. Now I have rarely had problems with previous GPS devices and but the additional antenna could probably help when you are in the 'canyons' of the city, though I haven't gone downtown to try it yet. The GPS system is great. While my car has one built in, it acts a bit too much like my mother and won't let me input anything if I am not at a complete stop. My wife can't even do it from the passenger seat because if we are moving at all it completely locks out the GPS controls. I understand why, but it would be nice for some kind of override. With the Overdryve, we don't have to worry about that. She just plucks the device from the mount, types in the destination and clicks it back into place. The guidance voice is kind of grating but so is my wife yelling directions at me from her phone! I played around with the handsfree and entertainment applications and they are fine, but my car handles that pretty seamlessly, so I don't think I will be using that function of the Overdryve. The voice commands are much more responsive than those for my car system so I will give it that. The other thing I don't have to worry about is the backup camera or tire pressure monitor, because my car already has that, but if your car doesn't, this is a really cool feature. While each of those systems is an add-on, they are both only about $150 each and I guarantee I paid more for that functionality from the auto maker. As for the Overdryve also being an Android tablet, and can be used off the mount like any other tablet, it is true that it can do so, but it is a little bulky for that and it is an Android tablet with all that entails. Sorry, I have an iPad and I can't really see myself ever using this as just a regular tablet, but perhaps if you forgot yours and you have a fussy kid in the back and want to send it to the back seat to quiet them down, this could be a lifesaver. Now for my few quibbles with the device. I had a little trouble syncing it to my phone for the first few tries but after I did a phone restart I didn't have a problem and it had maintained the sync no problem, so it could have been my phone and not the Overdryve. My only other problem is the name. Seriously, Overdryve?! I realize that Overdrive was probably taken but I kind of feel like some hipster should be on TV telling me how 'swaggy' this thing is. Every time I have had to type Overdryve into this review, I have had to roll my eyes and they are getting tired. In summary, if you want a great functioning GPS system, and that is all, this is a phenomenal GPS and it costs about the same as other 7-inch GPS systems. If you need the functionality of an infotainment system, and want the ability to add safety features like a back-up camera and tire pressure monitoring, this is a no-brainer because you get all of that for the price of a basic 7" GPS. On top of all that, you get a fully functional Android tablet! I really can't see why anyone would buy any other standalone car GPS system now that this is out. Even if you don't need the other functions, they are nice to have and Rand McNally has created the best GPS device I have ever used, for the same price as other systems. Seriously, this is the unit to get.

mount cheap unit is slow and heavy.----------------------------------

Terrible impossible to use. VC is garbage. Buy that agent broccoli!?!

I hooked this up and am very impressed. First it looks and feels like a high quality piece of equipment. The features are really nice if you have a car like mine that only has the basics. I stream Pandora and XM radio from my phone through it and into the car radio. I use the auxiliary jack to connect to the radio. I tried the fm radio wireless connection but I didn't feel the sound quality was as good as using the Aux cable. The navigation is very nice and works like the expensive in car systems. The radio keeps playing but lowers when the voice announces the turns. I tested the phone calling and phone messaging and it worked perfectly. The only downside is convincing my wife I need the wireless camera, The tire pressure readers and the ODB device so I can use the diagnostic tools. I have used the camera but haven't had a chance to test the collision assistance. All and all I think this is a high quality and useful tool.

The screen shakes while u are using it. It would get us lost

No night vision camera definitely not recommended this item

The Rand McNally – OverDryve is a next generation GPS unit which is basically a highly customized version of an Android tablet. In addition to providing traditional navigation like any GPS, it comes with a series of features. Personally I like the voice – controlled voice assistant as the best feature as when you are driving around it easy just to give voice commands and not take your hands off the wheel. I can do hands free calling and messaging and also change music via Bluetooth. It comes with a nice mounting device and it’s very easy to install as well. Overall a nice product and good value for money.

I'm not nearly as wowed by this was I hoped I would be. Navigation works as expected, but I could just use my phone for that. Yes, you can hook up your phone to it, but if you don't have wifi, you'll probably use a fair amount of data. Plus, when I connected my phone (iPhone 6) and tried to use the voice commands, there was a huge delay in the command going through the OverDryve to my phone and actually doing what I said. And the only way to use the system monitoring feature is to buy an additional dongle (and the cheapest I've seen is around $80). Then you also have to buy the app on your phone...that's another $10. This thing already costs $400. For what it does on it's own, it works, but there are a lot of other options out there that won't dig into your wallet nearly as deep.

First off I really can't stand Android so I will avoid any negative issues with that since this isn't really Rand McNally's fault other than they chose to run it in this tablet. The tablet itself is solid feeling and has a nice rubber grip in the back to keep it from sliding around and for holding a good grip on it. I have owned iPads since inception and I am never happy with other tablets touch and sensors but this one has me saying, wow they got it. The sensitivity is great and no need to apply lots of pressure. I like the weight of it as well, a tad heavier than ipads but feels like it should take some abuse for a while. My unit came with all necessary cables, screen protector, dash pad and the heavy duty bean bag dash pad. The packaging and box were solid and well thought out. I have not tested out the tire pressure monitoring system nor the backup camera since it didn't come with it and is an added accessory. I also haven't dabbled in the vehicle monitoring yet. I also did not install any games or apps, no reason for me as I wouldn't use those features. It can link to your phone and hotspot which is great. I enjoyed the pop up text and call features, SIRI links up great as well. The mapping was strange to me but I am very used to google maps for directions on my phone. I have a dash camera but tested out the dash cam option on this tablet and wasn't very impressed, it's very choppy and the tablet is quite heavy so it bounces around just enough to make the filming annoying, but the option is there and integrated into the unit. Mind you though my dash cam was close in price to this tablet and it's only a dash cam. I don't really dig the antenna but that's just me, you would think with the technology these days it could have been integrated into the unit. I may order the back up camera and tire monitoring system to get this baby totally integrated and see if I enjoy it even more. Get this unit and make your non smart car a smarter car. I see big potential and need for these in every car.

I kind of understand what Rand McNally is trying to accomplish with the Overdryve, and that is to give any vehicle the ability to enjoy the modern-day functionalities that even standard equipped vehicles sold by car manufacturers enjoy today. Out of the box you get an Android tablet shipped with pre-installed navigation software that can be mounted on your vehicle's dashboard. You can also pair your phone to the Overdryve and use your phone's mobile hotspot feature to power it's online capabilities as well as listen to your music on your car stereo using the included FM transmitter. The mount itself also contains a "commercial-grade" GPS antenna that promises an exceptional navigation experience. I do wish Rand McNally did a better job at the design and function of their tablet. If you go and buy a budget, sub-$100 Android tablet you will notice that the material quality used in both the Overdryve and the budget tablet are almost identical. There is a lot of light bleed on the LCD display and you can easily bend the panel if you use too much pressure on it. The Android OS also feels very slow and while touted as being able to install third-party apps, it doesn't include the Google suite of apps usually found in most Android phones (Google Play, Gmail, etc.) putting your Overdryve's security at the mercy of unofficial app stores. If I had to get something like this for my car, I'd probably wait until the second-gen Overdryve. It's nice to see Rand McNally taking on the digital era by entering an already competitive space and what they can be capable of accomplishing, but I think it still needs a bit of work. Here's a good start: add a GSM/LTE antenna to the Overdryve and allow your users to bring their own SIM card and pay AT&T/T-Mobile about $5-$10/month for cellular data access. You'd make this device go a lot farther than it currently can.

I spent the weekend testing this out and was surprised by how well it worked. The GPS was accurate with only one incorrect guidance (due to construction occurring in that area within the last few weeks). Set up of the actual device in the car was easy, but I found that using the Crescent Beanbag Dash Pad (a separate accessory) was a more secure option on my dash than just relying on the included arm. The fact that this also doubles as a tablet is an added bonus. Bluetooth works well.