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3.0 stars
"Good but sluggish"
Pros: Navigation seems very good
Cons: User interface is counter-intuitive, display changes can be SLOW
Summary: Overall, nice unit. My first navigation GPS. The address lookup can be quirky if you don?t know the exact zip, city, or street name (i.e., if the address is in Clinton Township, but the mailing address is different...good luck). I moved past this thinking I could work around it.
A major issue is the user interface is counter-intuitive. However, I thought I?d figure it out sooner rather than later.
The thing that pushed me to take it back?press the zoom in, zoom out, 2-D/3-D, etc. button?sometimes the unit responds immediately, but sometimes it takes minutes for the unit to acknowledge that it should do something, then awhile longer for it to do it.
I drove around Detroit for a few days ? it did a nice job. I used it in Manhattan ? it took a long time to acquire satellites (understandable considering the high-rise buildings), but once it acquired the satellites, I drove under cover briefly, then it wouldn?t track again until I re-booted (two bridge tolls and a half-hour later). Going up-state NY it did great. Coming back, at one point I asked it to use ?least amount of freeway?, then I realized that I may not want to travel that route and wanted to recalculate using ?shortest time?, although I was able to engage this function several times before ? I couldn?t get the unit to do it when I most needed it.
Navigation is good, but I had too much trouble with the user interface (and I?m a gadget geek). It?s going back. I guess I?ll try Tom Tom next.
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After doing EXTENSIVE research on portable GPS systems, I thought this was the one to get ... WRONG!the car mount ALWAYS has the unit upside-down because there is no place to mount it in my car. it loses signal too easily. The sound is not nearly loud enough and heaven forbid you TOUCH the thing anywhere ... it goes into spasms. Nope, it has to go! Back to my research......
