Initially, I was very disappointed in the GPS ability to see and lock on to satellites. Sitting in my den, and comparing side by side to my rooted gingerbreaded Fascinate. The Fascinate saw 8 almost immediately and locked on to 5 in about 10 seconds. The GT7+ saw only 2 and never locked on to any, even though I waited several hours. Next day I take the GT7+ out to the car. In about 20 seconds it saw 14 and locked onto 8. Pretty darned good I would say. Now we just need to find a good Nav program that stores the maps on the device or SD card. I have tried CoPilot Live and find the latest versions very poor. (I'm in Huntersville, North Carolina but every time CoPilot tries to give my current location it says I am in El Yaqui, Columbia, South America! It also quite frequently mis-locates addresses by up to half a mile.) Sygic and Navigon are expensive and get very mixed reviews. Any one using any good ones they would recommend? If google will get off its duff and let us download regional, national maps we will have some Nirvana.