Reviews for InVion GPS-3V106-IUS Automobile Portable GPS Navigator

3.5" - Touchscreen - Audio Player, Photo Viewer, Speaker - MultiMediaCard MMC, Secure Digital SD Card - Advanced Pedestrian Mode, Voice Prompt - USB - 2.50 Hour - MPN: GPS3V106IUS

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  By member: noclueone - Oct 28, 2007

good and cheap

Strengths: Great price, reliable and ready to use out for the box.

Weakness: It was tricky to get it to operate correctly at first. But with a little fiddling it works great. Short battery life.

For the price try it out. Mine has worked grat so far. If you plan on using the mp3 player you should plan on buying at least a 2 gig sd card. I plan on buying another one soon.

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  • 3
  By member: tzh2231 - Nov 27, 2007

cheap and works but annoying

Strengths: Built-in FM transmitter Plenty hardware buttons Metal shell

Weakness: Miserable original map software Poor quality buttons Short battery life Cold start every time

I got my device really cheap on last Thanks giving, around $150. After about 1 year use, it definitely helped a lot and very well worth the money, however there are a few annoying problems in the design/quality.

My biggest complaint for this thing is its forced "hard reset" for every power off. So every time you power on the device, it is basically booting the operating system from scratch and load all the software from ground 0. Most if not all other GPS devices based on wince are using standby mode instead of a full power off, giving much better startup performance.

My 2nd biggest complaint if the poor quality of its hardware buttons. You wont feel anything when you press down a button on this thing, you only know when it works. No 'click' feeling, no 'shift' no nothing, it feels like cheap plastic fake button.

After all, this device does work, especially the FM transmitter is a really nice add-on that is normally only found on very expensive units.







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