 Shows 2 Screens During Turns At Important Intersections |
| Review Date: July 26, 2010 |
| Reviewer: Harrison Lapahie, |
This product is currently not being sold any more by Sony which is sad. Sony had the best GPS device during 2006 to 2008, when their GPS was being produced and sold. It also had the largest screen of 4.8 inches, which was the largest at that time. Now its common to find screens at 5 inches. I brought my Sony GPS in 2007 and love it. Its still better than almost all the current top of the line GPS made by Tom-Tom, Garmin, and Magellan. It only inaccurate because its mapping system cannot be updated anymore, only to a 2009 map.
This product has a feature that no other current or past GPS has yet copied. This feature is the following: Two screens show when you reach an important major intersection as entering, exiting, turning right, or turning left, at a freeway, highway, or street intersection. On the left there is about a 2 inch square screen diagram of how to correctly enter, exit, turn left, or turn right, at the intersection. This left diagram also updates from tenths of a mile down to the number of feet of when to make that turn. The voice makes a statement as the following: "In .3 miles exit right and make a left turn on Carson Blvd", while showing two diagrams on the screen. It will also show the the text of what was just said on the bottom of the screen as written above. This is important because, usually I will be listening to music and I won't catch the wording that the GPS just said, so I will just look at the bottom of the screen to confirmed what was just said. As a note, my friend has a Garmin, and it only speaks what to do, but doesn't show these words on the screen, of what the voice just said!
Continuing, on the right of the screen is about a 2 inch square screen diagram showing the overall surroundings of the neightborhood with the center of that diagram showing where the turn or enter/exit will be made. This right diagram has a depth of about 5 streets in all directions.
When the turn or enter/exit has been made, it then returns to one full screen.
Overall, there are also other items showing on the screen at the same time. It shows in the upper left hand corner, the arrival time of your destination point, and how many miles it takes to arrive at that destination point. On the bottom right hand corner, it show the current time in your current time zone that you are in. In the bottom left hand corner, it show the current speed that you are going at.
This overall design just described is better than the current top of the line Tom-Tom, Garmin, and Magellan GPS device. These companies only have devices that show one screen. When an imporant intersection is reached, it switches to a screen showing that turn. Also the debt of street information is not as good as the Sony GPS. This area debt has to be adjusted manually on the other non-Sony GPS. On the Sony GPS, there is no need to do this. Also, the Sony mapping looks esthetically better than the Tom-Tom, Garmin, and Magellan GPS device. One item that I noticed that Sony device lacks is the current elevation above sea-level where you are driving. The top of the line 7 inch screen Magellan has this feature.
What the Sony GPS lacks is the depth of the number of interesting points, and the current map can only be updated to the 2009 version. Yet I have the 2007 map version and have not found the map to be inaccurate enough. Only when I went to Disneyland in Anaheim, California. The old street of Harbor Blvd has not been updated to Disneyland Drive, and the streets has been redesigned and re-routed because of the huge multi-storied parking lot that was built there. The Sony GPS would say "recalculating route" in this area. Maybe the 2009 map version has this area updated in its map.
Another defect is that the Sony GPS does not hold on to the front windshield in the cold of northern New Mexico during winter time. It would keep falling off the front windshield. It is not a Super Sucking device as it claims when it gets very cold! I therefore bought a device that sits on the car dashboard to hold my Sony GPS which seems much better. |
nice gps
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| Review Date: July 18, 2010 |
| Reviewer: Chenyi Zhang, Lafayette, IN USA |
i love this gps, mainly because it has "split screen" function. whenever you reach a intersection, it splits the screen and shows you small and overall map at the same time. and counting down the distance of reaching the intersection you want to go. so i barely take wrong turns and get into wrong intersection. very handy. voice is loud enough to hear but not "noisy" as some other gps.
bad things :
the route may not be the best route, so you still need to check google map and figure out the best way in your mind (you have to do that no matter which gps you are using, they are machine, they cannot make decision for you).
and seems very fragile, and easy to break.
battery doesnt last long if you dont plug in power. |
review
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| Review Date: May 12, 2010 |
| Reviewer: Nan Ma, |
This device is slow on getting GPS signal when boots. But once it gets signal, it works well. It has better accuracy than magellan. The split screen is very nice feature, u can hardly miss a turn.
Search by address is not very user friendly. It asks ur street name before the City/town name. |
Sony NVU-94T
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| Review Date: April 18, 2010 |
| Reviewer: Dante Cateni, Port Huron, Michigan, US |
This is a replacement unit after the original one was stolen from my vehicle.
It functions as it is supposed to. Speech information has thus far been correct and timely.
Speech is a little more clearer than the 83T version and volume can be better adjusted.
Upgrade to 2009 Maps was simple enough; and has not crashed, yet as many reviewers have stated elsewhere.
All in all I prefer this unit to other similarly sized and featured GPS units. It would be nice for it to have had bluetooth internet connectivity to provide
real time routing updates and re-routing functions.
I would gladly recommend this Sony product to others. |
good at the price...
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| Review Date: April 4, 2010 |
| Reviewer: Umar Ali, okc, ok, usa |
| price was very reasonable... unit works perfect... no scratches or anything... the package didnt had traffic antenna i wrote back to the seller and she shipped antenna immediately... so it was good experience... |
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