Sony NVU44 3.5-Inch Portable GPS Navigator with Text-to-Speech (Gun Metallic)
by Sony
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Customer Review: cant find streets
Summary: 2 Stars
unit will not find some streets by street names it decides that I need to know the county road number. It also will just not find some roads that have been around for over 20 years. Sony tells me that if I buy their $50 map update it "might" fix the problem. I wasted enough money buying the unit. It does no good to have a gps that is lost half the time. I'm going back to Magellan.Customer Review: Unfortunately it broke
Summary: 2 Stars
The GPS was working well for a couple of weeks and I was happy enough. Then when I returned from a trip to VA, it stopped working. Now the battery will not charge and the touch screen does not work. So it is dead in the water. I contacted Tech Support and they told me to return it for repair, so I am hoping to return it to Amazon for refund.
Too bad !!!
Customer Review: its a waste
Summary: 2 Stars
It's a very easy to use product but it always take you through the longest paths. plus the destination it shows you will be about half a mile away from where you want to go. some of the street name are not right.need to update the map asapCustomer Review: Looks good, easy to use, BUT....
Summary: 1 Stars
Bought this unit for $79 from Sears. Everything seemed great at first except I noticed that the selected route was sometimes bizarre. Occasionally I'd follow the bad route just to see where it took me - but most of the times it would just route me back to the original road.
The more significant issue was the quality of the unit. My first GPS failed to hold a charge very quickly. Strike 1. I sent it in for service and they offered me either a different colored unit (red) in exchange or a refund. I chose the latter and immediately bought another one at Sears. Well - this one held a charge at first but after a few months the charge would last for only for less than a day, so every time I used it I was forced to connect the cable. Strike 2. I sent this one back for service and got the same story - no exact replacements available but we'll upgrade you or give you a refund, which I gladly accepted to avoid an inevitable strikeout.
So I'm now back to using my Garmin E-Trek handheld in my car and much happier. Currently hunting around for a new unit but it definitely won't be a Sony!
Customer Review: Stay away from it...
Summary: 1 Stars
This is Sony's frugal attempt to enter GPS market.
It's nice unit if it can find place that you want to go to..
This unit has doesn't come with latest firmware updates, so you need to update it using your computer, not a big deal but would prefer not to do for a brand new unit.
As soon as I got unit I typed in 10 most common places I visit and it could not find 5 of them and every address has existed for at least 3 years now. I tried typing out of state addresses too and it could not find them unless addresses were at least 5-8 years old.
I would like to mention that my garmin and Magellan that are at least 6 month old unit could locate all the addresses that this unit couldn't locate.
No latest maps available so you are stuck with outdated maps on a brand new unit.
Before purchasing this unit I would ask you to look how freely refurbished units are available for this model...it should give you pretty good idea as how many people return this unit :)
Pay few extra bucks and buy some other brand.