JVC EXAD eAvinu KV-PX9BN user reviews (GPS receiver)

Pros not darn thing...the bigest mistake I've ever made is throwing my money away on this product.

Cons I don't like that this product is still being sold. It's outdated, most places I want to go to are not on the map, and it's imposible to get a map update. It's cheaper to by a new gps...I'm buying a LG or tomtom.

Pros storing pictures,videos and mp3

Cons loses signal to much and freezes,you have to keep resetting it

Summary i bought this gps because it was on sale in Comp U.S.A. for $249 with $70 mail in rebate($179) when i bought it about a year ago,it kept on losing signal almost everywhere in Connecticut,so i went to JVC.com and purchase the external antenna for $40 with the shipping,it got a little more signal but still was losing it, also sometimes when i was typing the name of the street it used to freeze and i had to reset it by switching the button on the side of the gps off and on, and sometimes when it takes you to where your going it makes you do unnecessary turns for example if im going straight like 4 blocks it'll say make a left turn then make a right turn then make a right turn then make a left turn to bring me back to the same street,the only thing that i like was that it had mp3,i took it to Florida on vacation,i rented a car and was playing my music threw the stereo with a wireless fm transmitter,other than that i wouldn't purchase this gps again

Pros Great Price

Cons Poor screen vsibility in sunlight

Summary For the price this GPS is fine. After a lot of usage i found that there are two issues. The first is a very big issue which will leave you very frustrated. It does not announce the direction when you have to take an exit. Example if you have to take 95 North it just announces to take I-95. You are lost as to which one to

Pros Good GPS system, great music system

Cons Does not speak street name you are going to turn into

Summary I do not think the other reviewer understood
that when the street name is on a grey back
ground that indicates the street you are
ON. When the street name is on a white
background, that indicates the street you
are to turn into. Also, plugging it into
your USB port does NOT charge the unit.
It says so in the manual.

I do not have any other experience with
GPS systems, but if it is true that this
unit cannot pick up the GPS signal inside
my solid brick (140 year old brownstone).
But maybe it could with an external
antenna (not sure).

If you buy this unit for under $300 you will be wowed. I don't understand why the product is so cheap. Is there reliability
issues? But its a JVC.

I'm new to GPS so I can't compare it
against other products,
but I am a fairly demanding user. This is what I found. I'm
writing a detailed review, since many sites do not contain one.

Navigation is nice. You get the option of a 2D or 3D view.
In the 2D view you can choose to have any combination
of the categories (hotels, fastfood, gas etc.) of the 13 million
points of interest come up. The voice commands are quite useful
and are stated on time. There is the nice option of finding routes
to minimize tolls, use of highways etc. In about 4 hours of use
so far, it never got me lost.
The only negatives I could think of are:
a) that it would not announce the street names when prompted to turned into them. The street name
is put on the top of the screen, but even that is confusing since the DIRECTION is not put up. For instance, often on a HWY you will get two exits (i.e. North/South East/West) for the same road. This unit
does not distinguish (on the screen) from Central Ave West
and Central Avenue East. I did not find this an option since the
GPS is fairly accurate but it could be for very close together
exits.
b) This is a minor quibble, it was very good at taking you directly
to a location. For instance it routed me to the drop of location
of our location airport (not to the back of it like some other GPS
are reported to). However, for resteraunts, it did not tell me what
side of the street the resteraunt was on. For backstreets this is
not a problem, but for wide streets it can be.
c) When it loses the GPS signal, it will still show you progressing
on the screen based on your previous velocity. This works great
on highways, but not so good on back streets.

The reason I bought this is because of the music system.
With 5GB of storage for MP3s and an audio output that
can be plugged into your car stereo head unit's input this
is going to be great for putting books on tape and a whole
bunch of music. I can report that when playing music,
the music is put on low while the announcements on
directions to take are made. The sound quality is good
even with the built-in speakers. Unfortunately, there is no
way to rearrange the songs into folders once they are on
the GPS system. Instead you need to put them in folders
on your PC and these will be copied over to the GPS.

The GUI is intuitive but I think there are a few bugs, which
I'm trying to work through (none of these make the unit
unusable).

I was a bit concerned about only having 8 channels instead of
12 and I found
that if the unit sits in your lap (while driving) that it OFTEN looses
the GPS signal. However, when I mounted it on my dashboard near
the windscreen I did not have any problems at all in over 3 hours
of driving. It always have at least 5 satellites. I note that JVC
sell an antenna which could improve performance if you
do not want to mount it on your dash.

I was surprised to see when you plug in the USB cable
it does NOT charge the unit. But since the battery last for
about 4 hours this should not be an issue if you want to
use it predominantly in your car.

The unit is the same dimensions as most other GPS
systems but is thicker (about 2 inches) but does fit into
your jeans pocket (barely).