you don't want to take this for hiking. off road you'll only see green screen without any geographic feature.

domeng said:you don't want to take this for hiking. off road you'll only see green screen without any geographic feature.

what would you take off road

How does this thing compare to Garmin Nuvi 200 without the Text-to-Speech feature for $149.99 at BestBuy? Doesn't it meant that you have to look at the map for the street name and the GPS won't speek it for you without Text-to-Speech?

goodguy1966 said:How does this thing compare to Garmin Nuvi 200 without the Text-to-Speech feature for $149.99 at BestBuy? Doesn't it meant that you have to look at the map for the street name and the GPS won't speek it for you without Text-to-Speech?

Yes, TTS is pretty big feature for me. Garmin will say make right at next street where the mio will say make right at <street name> which is good for those who don't want to look at screen to double check.

jerzmom said:How does the "speed camera" detection work? Is there anything we have to add onto the GPS or it detects automatically?

Thanks!

There is no "detection"... Read the first post genius.... it is explained there:

bobice said:
Speed camera option (Need to download a speed camera database file)

That means info may become stale....

jerzmom said:How does the "speed camera" detection work? Is there anything we have to add onto the GPS or it detects automatically?

Thanks!

Instructions updated above.

goodguy1966 said:How does this thing compare to Garmin Nuvi 200 without the Text-to-Speech feature for $149.99 at BestBuy? Doesn't it meant that you have to look at the map for the street name and the GPS won't speek it for you without Text-to-Speech?I have my Mio C230 since last December and love it. TTS is very useful and helped me navigate well in complex freeway interchange. With TTS you get "Take the next exit [exit name] and keep left towards [location name]". Without TTS you get something like "Take the next exit and keep left". On city streets, TTS is also useful such as two left turns (at different angle) at the same junction, or simply crowded city blocks in downtown area.

Two questions.

1. How are maps in comparison to the Garmin or TomTom?

2. Is this hackable in the way that Garmins and TomToms are to do trip logging? I'd love to use this for geologging.

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dave316 said: The only thing i dont like about the Mio c230 is that when you push the power button and turn the gps off it still burns the battery. you have to hard reset the gps using the button on the back of the unit to prevent the battery from getting drained. if you do this you then have to screen calibrate the unit the next time you turn it on. its kinda annoying and a little bit of a hassle.

This is just like any PDA. How many hours of standby time does the battery give you think?