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Psy472
- Member
posted: Dec. 8, 2006 @ 10:09p 
wale said:Mine came today.
Really disappointed - using the tiny QWERTY keyboard is hard, the street names can't be seen at a distance and simply asking like, where's the closet McDonalds is not only time consuming but hard with the tiny buttons and multiple screens.
Gets fantastic reception clear through most of my home, and the shirt pocket size is great.
Nevertheless, tempted to send it back. I've been spoiled by the Garmin's large keys and more intuitive interface.
You just need to press the "Keys" button on that qwerty to change the keys into all alphabet or all numbers with very big keys. |
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ragnacor1234
- Happy Member
posted: Dec. 10, 2006 @ 12:40a
WARNING DO NOT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES USE THIS GPS UNIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I just got back today from a trip using it and it sent me the wrong way down a one way street. The routing software incorrectly identified a street as a two way street instead of a one way street. It was dark and I nearly hit another car head on. Relying on this unit is downright dangerous and you could get yourself or someone else seriously hurt. I am not making this up. I repeat DO NOT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES USE THIS GPS UNIT. Its not worth getting killed just to save a few hundred bucks on a GPS unit. |
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sky7
- Tired Member
posted: Dec. 10, 2006 @ 3:11a
ragnacor1234 said:WARNING DO NOT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES USE THIS GPS UNIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I just got back today from a trip using it and it sent me the wrong way down a one way street. The routing software incorrectly identified a street as a two way street instead of a one way street. It was dark and I nearly hit another car head on. Relying on this unit is downright dangerous and you could get yourself or someone else seriously hurt. I am not making this up. I repeat DO NOT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES USE THIS GPS UNIT. Its not worth getting killed just to save a few hundred bucks on a GPS unit.
I can bet you that any TeleAtlas based unit will send you on the same death trap. |
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darkfyre
- Senior Member
posted: Dec. 10, 2006 @ 5:19a
ragnacor1234 said:WARNING DO NOT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES USE THIS GPS UNIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I just got back today from a trip using it and it sent me the wrong way down a one way street. The routing software incorrectly identified a street as a two way street instead of a one way street. It was dark and I nearly hit another car head on. Relying on this unit is downright dangerous and you could get yourself or someone else seriously hurt. I am not making this up. I repeat DO NOT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES USE THIS GPS UNIT. Its not worth getting killed just to save a few hundred bucks on a GPS unit.
WARNING!!!!!!!!!!!!! REMEMBER TO READ ROAD SIGNS AND USE COMMON SENSE!!!!!!!!! |
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rigor
- Senior Member - 8K
posted: Dec. 10, 2006 @ 6:25a
james kim used google maps |
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steveg944
- Happy Member
posted: Dec. 10, 2006 @ 7:29a
darkfyre said:ragnacor1234 said:WARNING DO NOT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES USE THIS GPS UNIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I just got back today from a trip using it and it sent me the wrong way down a one way street. The routing software incorrectly identified a street as a two way street instead of a one way street. It was dark and I nearly hit another car head on. Relying on this unit is downright dangerous and you could get yourself or someone else seriously hurt. I am not making this up. I repeat DO NOT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES USE THIS GPS UNIT. Its not worth getting killed just to save a few hundred bucks on a GPS unit.
WARNING!!!!!!!!!!!!! REMEMBER TO READ ROAD SIGNS AND USE COMMON SENSE!!!!!!!!!
Well put darkfyre. By all means, use this unit. I have it and it is great.
A friend and I have compared this to the SupportPlus (InVion) 3.5" unit and the Pharos 135. Both of these were about the same price. All three had similar routes. The Mio is much, much faster at re-routing. The user interface and voice prompts are also better on the Mio. The Mio announces "re-routing" while the Pharos makes a sound. It is the same sound that it makes when you are supposed to turn. |
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ragnacor1234
- Happy Member
posted: Dec. 10, 2006 @ 9:08a
steveg944 said:darkfyre said:ragnacor1234 said:WARNING DO NOT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES USE THIS GPS UNIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I just got back today from a trip using it and it sent me the wrong way down a one way street. The routing software incorrectly identified a street as a two way street instead of a one way street. It was dark and I nearly hit another car head on. Relying on this unit is downright dangerous and you could get yourself or someone else seriously hurt. I am not making this up. I repeat DO NOT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES USE THIS GPS UNIT. Its not worth getting killed just to save a few hundred bucks on a GPS unit.
WARNING!!!!!!!!!!!!! REMEMBER TO READ ROAD SIGNS AND USE COMMON SENSE!!!!!!!!!
Well put darkfyre. By all means, use this unit. I have it and it is great.
A friend and I have compared this to the SupportPlus (InVion) 3.5" unit and the Pharos 135. Both of these were about the same price. All three had similar routes. The Mio is much, much faster at re-routing. The user interface and voice prompts are also better on the Mio. The Mio announces "re-routing" while the Pharos makes a sound. It is the same sound that it makes when you are supposed to turn.
Welcome to the world of bargain basement GPS units. Maybe the Mio is faster at rerouting because the Pharos actually checks to see if a street is a one way street or not. It seems like the Mio just uses some program that judges whether the street is one way or not based on the thickness of the map line.
Its amazing how some people will sit here and defend their defective GPS units just because they got them on sale. Often quick decisions have to be made to keep up with the flow of traffic and if you are in an unfamiliar area and its dark the last thing you need is a GPS unit that sends you the wrong way down a one way street. I've never seen a GPS unit do this before in my life and if I have to constantly second guess the directions the unit is giving me then its not suitable for use. |
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rigor
- Senior Member - 8K
posted: Dec. 10, 2006 @ 9:13a
dude i don't need gps to go down a one way the wrong way, give me a 6 pack, or in the bigger cities, dumb luck and i'll do it myself.
delorme street atlas which kicks all GPS devices butt's in features (voice controlled, text to speech, routes as fast as your laptop) still sent me down a 1 way street a few times in SFO.
Fortunately i use the GPS for suggestion or with a co-pilot more so than a standalone unit. p.s. did anyone notice that TOMTOM6 says USB on COM3:, OTHER NEMA on COM2: and TMC on COM1: ???
this thing need a tmc antenna..
oh yeah anyone notice a speaker microphone hole on the c310x to the right of the on/off button? |
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ragnacor1234
- Happy Member
posted: Dec. 10, 2006 @ 12:27p
Whatever if you all want to believe that a unit you picked up for $150 doesn't have any drawbacks and is just as good and safe to use as the $500 portable units or the $1500 built in car units then please continue to live in a fantasy world. It wasn't some random city side street that it told me to take a wrong turn onto but a major 3 lane one way bridge. I for one though will not be trusting my safety to a $150 GPS ever again. |
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darkfyre
- Senior Member
posted: Dec. 11, 2006 @ 1:31a
Anyway, what I particularly love about this unit, is the blazing fast response time. I went to Circuit City a few weeks ago and toyed with every unit. all units besides the Mio had fairly slow map scrolling... that is, if you put your finger to the screen and dragged it, you'd have blocks of white, unpainted screen area for a moment while the unit caught up. Not on the Mio, the panning is seamless, like googlemaps. Similarly with zooming in and out, it is seamless, and the same function on other GPS units tends to be a slow "pause, update" effect. The mio scales the map in realtime.
I do hope that map update supposedly coming in the next year will materialize. My own experience is that roads that were constructed after 2005 are not reflected in the Mio maps, so I guess that's about how old the maps are. In large cities, where roads remain more or less the same over time, a user of the mio should be totally fine.
I set routing on 'economical' and disable u-turns for best effect.
imho the Mio C310 is one of the best GPS units on the market for experienced drivers. From a GPS device I want more than good routing, I'd like to be able to browse a map efficiently. The Mio does this very well, and better than many more expensive units.
Also I think if I had more money to spend, I'd get this Lowrance I600, which comes with 25gigs of satellite imagery and uses navteq.. lowrance i600c
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edisucks
- Member
posted: Dec. 11, 2006 @ 5:57a
ragnacor1234 said:Whatever if you all want to believe that a unit you picked up for $150 doesn't have any drawbacks and is just as good and safe to use as the $500 portable units or the $1500 built in car units then please continue to live in a fantasy world. It wasn't some random city side street that it told me to take a wrong turn onto but a major 3 lane one way bridge. I for one though will not be trusting my safety to a $150 GPS ever again.
Dude relax. What you want to be assured of is that it's not your fault you went down the wrong way on a one way street, it's the GPS' fault right?
Here in NJ it wants me to take left turns on major highways to go left..however we usually have to take an exit on the right to go left (it's a NJ thing). However, I know this is just giving me a suggestion and that I still have to think a little bit. So I do what I think is right and if necessary this thing reroutes itself. No biggie. World won't explode if I don't listen to it. |
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B0HEMIAN
- Ancient Member
posted: Dec. 19, 2006 @ 6:24p
Seems all maps have issues. MS streets and trips (navteq?) both 2006 and 2007 sent me to the wrong direction on a one way ramp to US 195. |
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dtdfusion
- Senior Member
posted: Jan. 23, 2007 @ 10:20p
for those that installed tomtom 6. is is possible to see the info of POI(ie address, fone #, etc.)? |
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Mojodaddy
- Senior Member
posted: Jan. 26, 2007 @ 1:58a
edisucks said:
Here in NJ it wants me to take left turns on major highways to go left..however we usually have to take an exit on the right to go left (it's a NJ thing). However, I know this is just giving me a suggestion and that I still have to think a little bit. So I do what I think is right and if necessary this thing reroutes itself. No biggie. World won't explode if I don't listen to it.
??? There are major highways where left exits are normal? |
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