Amazing GPS - more than value for money | Mio C520 4.3-Inch Widescreen Bluetooth Portable GPS Navigator

Excellent GPS at a great price | Mio C520 4.3-Inch Widescreen Bluetooth Portable GPS Navigator

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	• Mio C520 4.3-Inch Widescreen Bluetooth Portable GPS Navigator Mio Mio average customer review:based on 128 reviews view larger image
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Great GPS, Great Multimedia Player and Great Price

I returned my Garmin nuvi 360 to get Mio C520 because I want video player for my kids when we travel. The video function is wonderful but you need make your MP4 video to play. I have no problem to make my favorite 3 to 4 movies on a 2G SD card. The GPS function is even better than nuvi 360. It has 6mil POI, which is a great plus. bluetooth works with my Sumsung Blast cell phone the phone is not in its list. Just Love it
Can not believe that you can get everything under $300.
Cons:Device still turn on to suck the battery when car is off.

Amazing GPS - more than value for money

I have been using this GPS for a month now. Initially, i was very skeptical as i had not really heard of MIO before, but am very impressed with the performance, response/start-up time, and feature packed unit. This unit has one of the best features for the price (text-to-voice, mp3, bluetooth, SD Card slot, etc.), and can head-on compete with the "big 2" value for money. I gave it 4 stars because of the 2.5 pin jack, (instead of the standard 3.5 pin jack available for most mp3/GPS devices) and the Bluetooth connectivity (that works fine) but needs to be paired everytime you switch-off or diconnect. The user menu, though very detailed, may not be very intuitive for the not-so technical folks and reference to the manual/CD may be needed.

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Excellent GPS at a great price

The c520 is an excellent GPS at a great value price.

The unit does take time to get used to since the user interface is not the easiest. If you are a geek like myself then you will have no problems using it, but if you cannot program your DVR then this unit is not for you.

The unit occasionally crashes with a Windows fatal error message and reboots back. This has not been a problem for me since its only happened when I am playing around with the options while navigating.

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As a GPS Unit, it does the job - Bluetooth features, not so much

Having owned a Mio product for over a year (C310X), the C520 caught my eye for several reasons, including some of the extra features.

First, the good. As a GPS, it does the job just fine. Mio's map feature is, for the most part, pretty accurate. Unlike it's little brother which only offers one, the C310X, the C520 offers a couple of voices to choose from in American English, as well as a number of foreign voices. Mio added "Samantha" in addition to "Jason" to the voice library. They should have left Samantha in the can, as that is what she sounds like.

GPS setup is simple, since it just wants some basic information (time zone, etc.). To find an address, just enter the city or the ZIP, then the street name, then the street number. If it finds the street after three, four or five letters, it pops the names up for easy entry. The touch pad is superb. If you need to find an address you've been to before, simply enter the History screen, scroll through previous entries, select the address and click "Route To" and boom, it begins the GPS process.

Some of the extra features included in the C520 include a MP3 player, a photo player, a video player. The MP3 player includes a feature that displays the lyrics. Since I did not purchase the C520 for playing MP3, video or showing photos, I did not experiment with these features. By the way, unless you put your music, photos and videos on an SD card, it's a moot point anyway. The unit has a 2 gb internal memory with 1.9 gb used by the pre-loaded software.

Now on to the part where it gave up two stars. Mio states the following: The C520 will import your Outlook contacts and your phone contacts. Once these contacts are imported, they will display on the Mio when they call and routing to their address is simple. My unit did not import from Outlook or from the phone (T-Mobile Wing running Windows Mobile 6.0). Since I purchased the C520 for GPS and for Bluetooth interoperability with my phone, I was very disappointed when the contacts did not import.

I contacted Mio support using the phone number listed in the box. Getting through was surprisingly quick. Within five minutes I was on the phone with Mio support. The company is Taiwanese. So is the support. When the language barrier becomes too much, there seems to be a person hovering over the CSR's shoulder ready to give language support. After 90 minutes (no joke), it was determined that the Outlook contacts would not import.

Bottom line: GPS- Five Stars. Extra Features (Audio/Video) - Four Stars. Bluetooth - Two Stars . Customer Support - One Star. Overall - Three Stars.

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The best I've owned

This product is the best I've owned. I've owned Magellan, Tom-Tom, Nextar and others. The Mio is user-friendly and has streets and addresses that the others don't (including my own residence). I intend to stock my entire company's fleet with this navigation system.

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