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Navman iCN 510 32MB GPS NavigatorUser Review: - Navman iCN 510 32MBThis product is just what I needed. I was looking for a small portable GPS that would also give me all the same features you'd expect of a vehicle unit (voice directions, touch screen, trip planning, POI, etc.) I am very happy with the unit and Amazon.com had it for half the retail price. Shipping only took 2 days!! User Review: - good bang for the buckHere is what I think about the Navman. Pros= price, good features, good screen visibility. Ilike the speed feature, it is accutrate. cons=outdated maps, atleast a few years old. There are some glitches, for example, it told me to get onto the Masspike through an entrance reserved for restricted vehicles... overall, cant beat the price User Review: - First time GPS owner/userI have been wanting to joing the world of GPS users for quite some time now but could never justify the spending of $750-1000 or more on a unit. When I found the iCN 510 and it's attractive price I did quite a bit of research before deciding to buy. The unit itself seems pretty decent and it comes with everything I wanted for multi-car and motorcycle use. The car charger and internal battery allows me to use it plugged into the car or pull it out and hook up to my motorcycle for a 3-4 hour trip off the battery. The only thing missing from the box was a decent owners manual. The quick reference card was ok, but didn't help me in some of my trouble shooting issues. I also downloaded the patcher 80 fix after reading some of the reviews here. I don't know if it was just me or not, but one word of caution. I ran into A LOT of trouble getting the iCN to recognize the SD card I bought. I loaded all the maps onto the SD via a multi-card reader/writer but as soon as I loaded the card into the iCN, it would say "no maps loaded" and fail to work properly. This is when NAVMAN support stepped up. I sent two emails and both were responded to in a couple of hours. The first one suggested a couple of resets to try as well as to check to make sure the SD was not locked. When I wrote back the next day saying I had tried all that and more, and that the SD was working in my card reader, I got a response back, again within two hours, saying they will replace the entire Navman unit for me if I would like to try that. Before taking that step, I decided to go buy a different brand SD card and see if that would work and it did. Now I don't know if it matters, but the first card that did not work was a Lexar 512mb brand. When I bought a 256MB SanDisk and loaded the maps the iCN loaded them and now seems to work just fine. I also have a 1Gb SanDisk on order so that I can attempt to load as much of the US as possible. It has been two days and no map error problems, no lose of GPS signal, and the device is working as promised. I have a 1,000 mile trip coming up at the end of June that I'm really looking forward to as the final test of this unit. User Review: - ICN 510After reading all the reviews below, I was a little nervous purchasing it. However, i decided to give it a shot. Like one review I read, as soon as I took it out of the box I downloaded the patch from the Navman website and installed it. I have not had any of the problems described here or any other website that has reviewed this product. It has been an absolute pleasure and for 1/2 the price of the other options out there I think that I did the best for my money. My only problem with it is that you have to manually end the route once you have reached your destination, not such a big deal just tapping the touch screen and hitting cancel. User Review:  - Good GPS - Bad routing softwareI bought this unit for a drive from the Chicago suburbs to Fort Meyers Florida. I found that the the GPS worked fine on this unit, at least while the auto-rerouting was disabled. If you turn on auto-rerouting, that software has multiple problems. When the unit goes into auto-rerouting, the unit quits displaying your current location, ie., the screen freezes. Fairly often during the auto-rerouting, software crashes. To recover from the crash, you have to reset the unit. Nothing else will do, power cycling it does NOT clear the crash. To reset it, you have "shake hands with it" (the reset button is a tiny button on top of the unit, you have to tilt the unit forward, pull the stylus from the unit, push the recessed button, put the sylus back, and tilt the unit back into place). When you reset the unit, during the boot sequence, you have to agree that playing with your GPS while driving is a bad idea (of course, I was still speeding down the interstate while doing this). Of course it's only about 15 minutes before it crashes again. During two days of driving, it crashed about 40 times. When the unit does pick a route, you had better look it over closely, at least three times on this trip, it picked routes which took a spurious side trip, out about 15 miles, u-turn, back to where you turned off. When I initially started out on the trip, I did check the route (no spurious side trips), however, while driving down the road, the unit will decide that you've left the route and start rerouting. It does this in demonstrate route mode also! I have a 1G SD card loaded up with the eastern half of the US basemaps. I did not observe the rerouting crashes when the entire route was within one basemap (ie, I was in Illinois and my destination was in Illinois; however the other problems still occur). I did contact Navman support (via email) with these issues, no response. And there have been no updates to the software for at least 6 months. If they fix these problems, it will be a good deal. If I had any idea how slow they would be to update the software, I would have returned it immediately after the trip. |
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