John Stephens
Well-known member
I am seriously thinking about buying the new Garmin RV-770LMT-S but have discovered in my research that it no longer has a built in traffic receiver and now relies on a Smartphone App, pulling its information from your phone via cell data.
My question is: has anyone purchased one of these units and used it enough already to know how much cell data it uses? I'm planning on buying it because my old Garmin's are not configured for RV's and on my last trip, I cost myself an arm and leg using the phone maps, not realizing it was drawing cell data the entire time. I want to avoid that on my next trip. If the Smartphone App is constantly accessing my cell data, I'll buy a different unit.
My question is: has anyone purchased one of these units and used it enough already to know how much cell data it uses? I'm planning on buying it because my old Garmin's are not configured for RV's and on my last trip, I cost myself an arm and leg using the phone maps, not realizing it was drawing cell data the entire time. I want to avoid that on my next trip. If the Smartphone App is constantly accessing my cell data, I'll buy a different unit.