Via Michelin x930 GPS receiver
Via Michelin's latest GPS offering is the Via Michelin X930, is a slimline GPS unit that promises lots, but can it deliver?
- Reviewer
- Stuart Miles
- Review Date
- 5 January 2006
- Manufacturer
- Via
- Price as reviewed
- £275
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Reader review
User: Steve Lewis, Geneva, Switzerland
Date Posted: 3 February 2006
Review: Good clear directions, reroutes quickly if you decide not to follow it - can sometimes be slow to react on tight junctions, roundabouts, so I tend to keep an eye on the map. Has a couple of annoying features: 1. The mount is a pain till you work out how it works, then its easy 2. It insists on telling you when to leave roundabouts, but it reacts too slowly (especially on small roundabouts) to be useful 3. It says "turn slightly left" when it means "bear left" 4. Its packaging (documentation and "extra features") is cheap and nasty 5. It can't cope with tunnels, but all in all, it's a well built, low priced system that works (finds the vast majority of addresses and POIs I have tried) reliably, it has seamless cross-border mapping in Europe, it picks up a GPS signal fast and it never loses it. I'm sure I could help Michelin improve it easily if they asked me, but I don't regret the purchase and I don't know if other systems have similar issues too.
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18 people have rated this review helpful
Reader review
User: Alex Hornung, Marbella, Spain
Date Posted: 3 February 2006
Review: I have found that the search for addresses is not good enough, roads that have been here a while are also not plotted. The main question is can you download maps to transfer to the chip in the GPS or do you have to buy a new one with all the information on!
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16 people have rated this review helpful
Reader review
User: BCV, Netherlands
Date Posted: 30 January 2006
Review: Very good product!!! Works perfectly!! No problems at all with addresses, poi's etc.
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14 people have rated this review helpful
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