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5 Reviews for Sony NVU50TG.EUR Portable GPS Navigation System
Piece of garbage - 27 Jun 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful.
Got a unit at half price when buying a new car, but it was overpriced at that. Horrible user interface. Awful instructions. Slow. Slow. Slow. Very bad at picking up signal inside or outside car. 5 letter postcodes - useless. 100GBP+ for european maps on DVD and a pain to reload the maps when you travel abroad. Slow. Slow. Annoyingly slow.
Played with a tomtom - so snappy and fast. Looking for a new satnav because we cannot bear to go out with the sony where it can tell you that you "Cannot get there from here". Not useful. Despise sony for how poor this is.
Forget the other reviews. This product is pretty good. - 08 May 2007
1 out of 2 found this review helpful.
I am surprised by the negative feedback that some people have given this product. Perhaps they have not updated the firmware on the product, who knows.
Either way, this product is very reliable and manages to get me from A to B without a hitch.
Map updates are coming out as I type and I recon they'll cost around £40 from Sony! Expensive but I think TomTom are even pricier.
I have a TomTom and also the Sony. Both are on par with each other. In actual fact the Sony seems to keep a signal lock better (using it's built in aerial) compared with my TomTom but I might be imagining that.
The TMC does not pick up a signal with the silly wire Sony give you to begin with so expect to folk out another £80-£100 to use the car aerial. This is the same on the TomTom. If you're not prepared to buy this external aerial adapter for either product then forget the TMC option.
The postcode system works perfectly regardless of what some reviews say and I find the unit very easy to use. I've not got lost yet.
Sony produces some good kit; unfortunately, this is not one of them. - 10 Mar 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful.
Being a service engineer my sister gave me the Sony NV-U50T as a birthday present recently (buying decision based mainly on Sony brand loyalty) and have been using it for the last 2 weeks.
The following is a list of gripes / issues:
1) Does not support the full 7-character UK postcode (only the first 5-characters identifying the general area, then you have to choose the street or road manually)
2) Old map data. Unit informs the user that the map data is over 12 months old (suspect data is at least 2 years old) and recommends' going to Sony's web site to either purchase or download updated data. Unfortunately, there is no map update or new map data to purchase, and no indication of when or even if it will ever be updated!
3) The TMC (Traffic Monitoring) option comes free with this unit. However, first, you have to get reception, and then the warnings are a bit hit and miss (OK for motorways, but limited for normal roads).
4) POI (Points of Interest) is not updatable and in the general navigation mode, there is no advance warning, you tend to be passing the POI (petrol station) before it shows on screen. Note there is a separate POI search facility.
If my sister reads this, the present is appreciated and does take some stress out of my job.
Sony Nav -50T - 29 Sep 2006
11 out of 12 found this review helpful.
I can't compare this to other produts but I have to say that I'm not impressed. Firstly the map (certainly for the area I live )is about 3 years out of date! A lot of the adresses that I try to visit don't show up - when I speak to my clients it turns out that their homes were built within the last 3-4 years. Sony say that they may be up-dating the maps by the end of the year. Also, due to the fact that it doesn't recognise the last 2 characters of the post code it is quite often difficult to input an address. Obviously the beginning of a post code can cover a large area so you have 4 or 5 sections with the same post code and if you select the wrong one then you can't find the road! (You have to select the post code and then it gives a list of roads in that post code.) My own address shows up as being in a nearby town not the village that I live in (despite living slap bang in the middle of the village). I tend to use a map book rather than my sat nav now as it is quicker and easier. For the adresses it does find it is very good and the directions are very easy to follow but it only finds about 30% of addresses.
Mind the Gap! - 08 Jul 2006
13 out of 15 found this review helpful.
I have used the unit for three months and in the main it is reliable with clear visual and vocal directions.The touch screen is good with user friendly command screens and directions.
However,I chose this unit for two main reasons:
1.The Traffic Message Channel
2.Sony relability and attention to detail.
I have been disappointed in the TMC in that it doesn't always operate in all areas. e.g. In Greater London where there are bound to be traffic issues - I have yet to see it give any information until I am heading North near Stevenage on the A1 (I visit London at least once a week).
The battery,if not connected to the charging unit, runs down quickly and doesn't always last the 4hrs it states on the tin!
The maps themselves are also not up there with the best. There are some pretty outdated areas such as the A1/M62 junction, the Syston bypass in Leicester (completed almost 2 years ago!) You can find yourself 'floating'in the gap between the old and the new junctions which for an unit such as this is poor. DVD map updates will not be available to purchase until at least the end of 2006. Software updates (we are on version 3) are downloaded from the Sony website and it is always worth checking.
In summary good - but certainly not the best!!! Come on Sony keep up!