Tuesday, August 26, 2008

Mio MOOV 200 3.5'' Portable GPS Unit with Text-to-Speech

Mio MOOV 200 3.5'' Portable GPS Unit with Text-to-Speech

Great Product

We love MIO. We bought it to take on vacation traveling half way across the counrty and she worked better than we could imagine. Very quick on the recalculation if you take a diferent turn. With the voice direction, you do not even need to look at the unit as she will tell you with plenty of time, were to turn and to go. This is an awesome product especially for the money and features you get. We would highly recommend to anyone.

Best one in this price range

This unit does practically everything well; its display is clear, it's pretty easy to enter addresses, and it gives accurate directions, saying things like "Turn right on Thompson Street then make the first left" which is really helpful for knowing what lane to get into ahead of time. And having it say street names is very helpful. TIP: The GPS only says street names if you use one of the "named" voices (example, English: Samantha) and not just a generic (like English female). Also, there's more voices on the CD you can upload into it. Mine's now Karen (Australian accent - very cool.) Along with those features are some neat things like "Avoid Area" (where you just swipe your finger over an area on the map, and the route avoids it) and Multi-stop trip, where you can swipe your finger to drag-and-drop-reorder the destinations on the list. All very good. But most importantly, it gets me where I want to go with rarely a problem. The couple of glitches I recently had both involved State parks: It found the way there, but to an odd entrance instead of the main entrance. Not a big deal. Overall I highly recommend this one.

price is what makes it a keeper

i have a year old mio digi walker that i bought at radio shack for $99. it seems easier to use compared with the newer mio moov 200. i bought the moov 200 on amazon for $119. so the price is really good but the interface is just okay. don't pay more than $119, i saw it also being sold at CVS recently for $129.

the order is not complete

Buy 6 Moov 200 and received 5 Moov 200. please send the missing, Thanks Erika

Excellent Budget/Entry LEvel GPS

I purchased the Mio Moov 200 for a long road trip from Illinois through Wisconsin. Simply put the product works exactly as advertised. The text to speech directions are fairly good with pronunciation that is accurate for most streets. Routing is fairly quick and the device is good at re-routing you if you miss a turn generally within three seconds. This model does not have any of the bells and whistles of other devices like mp3 player functionality or blu-tooth, and to be honest they aren't really missed. The major draw backs of the device are few, but their are a few. First the touch screen is not always responsive to your touches. I believe it is a sensitivity issue with the large surface area of one's figures. Using the touch screen with a stylus offered much better performance. The other major drawback is the refresh rate of the screen. The distances and directions generally appear to update on your screen about once per second. When you re driving slow this is perfectly fine, but I often times found myself blowing right past a turn when in excess of 50 mph on a highway because the screen didn't update fast enough to tell me my turn was coming up. I often mis-judged 1/8 of a mile and under distances. Other then that the device works great. The voice is clear and very adjustable. The maps are generally very good and the routing functions are simple but effective.



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