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4 Reviews for Sony NVU70TC.EUR Portable GPS Navigation System
Missing Support - 17 Sep 2007
0 out of 0 found this review helpful.
I have a NV-U70T and it is very useful, however it appears to be impossible to get updated date for it. I bought it a year ago and the supplied data was 3 to 4 years out of date (especially Zarragoza and Teruel in Spain). I have been unable to find anyone at sony who can help.
Is there anyone out there who can help?
Sony NVU70T Satellite Navigator - 01 Mar 2007
3 out of 3 found this review helpful.
The NVU70T does the job it's meant to do, and I've found my way around several European countries with it. However, I would not recommend it over, for example, Tom-Tom, for the following reasons:
1. It has "frozen" on me several times, usually at difficult moments when I was trying to find my way through an unknown, foreign city in the rush hour, or on a motorway when I could not stop to reset it. Resetting it involves poking a ball-point pen up its bottom, waiting several minutes for it to wake up again, and reminding it of where it was I wanted to go. A right pain!
2. The nice lady who speaks to me from the sat-nav - I call her my Stepford wife - cannot keep up with developments when there are several turns to be made in quick succession, e.g. through a town. Quite often she's telling me to take a right turn that I took several seconds earlier only by keeping an eye on the screen. She's very useful on the open road - "Turn left in one mile", and so on - but, frankly, she gets on my wick in towns, when her incessant jabbering plays havoc with my concentration.
3. Sony's after-sales service is dire, verging on the non-existent. The sat-nav's map seems to be several years out of date, a fact that I discovered while travelling about sixty miles on a French autoroute that had been there for at least three years but that was unknown to the Navu. Subsequently I sent three e-mails to Sony, over a period of two months, to ask whether and when a map-update CD would be available, but I received no response, not even the courtesy of an acknowledgement. I then telephoned Sony, to be told that no CD was available yet, and that the person to whom I was talking would have only two weeks' prior notice of the arrival of one. This is NOT GOOD ENOUGH!
To summarise, the Sony Navu is a substandard sat-nav - more Tin-Tin than Tom-Tom. Sony are relying on their name to sell this product, and I'm not sure it's worth the money.
super fast re-route - 06 Sep 2006
27 out of 27 found this review helpful.
I have seen a few different nav systems and been frustrated by the "do a u-turn" command when deliberately re-routed against instruction. However with this Sony unit I am continually impressed with the speed of response when deliberately deviating from planned route. Within a split second it re-routes without u-turn. It may not be the easiest to programme on postcode, but still user friendly offering you the option to plan your own route and even a route planner giving you distance and time for your proposed route. Its not the latest sirf star 3 receiver being only level 2 (which works perfectly well even before sirf 3) but its performance is split second and the TMC requires no additional supscription (which by the way is not only free but works extremely well and even re-routes you back to the original route automatically when traffic management channel reports clear. It even calculates the time spend deviating and recommends whether to ignore or evade the traffic problem). Overall i am extremely impressed, the only downside is that a Quick clear windscreen does affect the reception of the TMC aerial so you have to be careful how you position it, the GPS is not affected even though there is a warning and if you do have problems, which i doubt, an external aerial can be fitted.
Does exactly what it says on the tin! - 03 Sep 2006
35 out of 36 found this review helpful.
I bought the NVU-70T at the last minute before driving across Europe and Scandinavia, and boy, am I glad I did! I picked this on the strength of reviews on the NVU50 and was not disappointed. It is a very good navigator which is robust and easy to use and will get you there in record time.
I hadn't used a nav before and as I only got it last minute I didn't have time to read the instructions (which seemed very clear) very thoroughly or program any routes, although I did update the software from the Sony website (recommended last thing you do before you go). However the software was so straightforward and well laid out I had no problems learning and using as we went. In the box comes a CD with 27 country maps of which more than half are pre-installed on the NavU; Northern Europe and Scandinavia. If you are going to need Southern Europe and Mediterranean maps installing you will need to use a PC to change them over.
Mounting the NavU in the vehicle was very easy with a mounting arm fixing onto the windscreen with a rubber sucker. The mount proved to be firm and reliable with a lever on the back of the vacuum cup and 2 adjustable elbows in the arm to get it `just right'.
Power is by the usual cigarette lighter jack, again no problems. This and the external antenna can both plug in to the mount base so there us nothing to unplug from the NavU when you unclip it. You also get a 100-240V power converter with UK and EU plugs and a USB cable so you can charge it from more or less anything, anywhere. It also has on internal battery which lasted for us far longer than 4 hours when we tried it.
The NavU clips and unclips from the mounting arm very easily and as it is little larger than a digital camera it is easy to take with or lock in the glove compartment when not in use. As it's pocket size you can also use it as a city guide when on foot.
Programming routes is easy using the touch screen with either simple "Take me there" navigation or multi point route planning. You can find places by point of interest, road intersection, and picking off a map and options of toll roads, motorways, and ferries, quickest route or shortest distance and type of vehicle you are in, invariably finding the quickest route for whatever options are selected. When looking for an address I found I could put in the name of a street, than scroll down the road to the appropriate house number. Searching for a Point of Interest is extremely simple, for example search by country, town, or nearby from listings of everything from restaurants to ferry terminals. Also if you have programmed a route you can scroll along your route map for points of interest, e.g. service stations or Mc Donald's and add them to your route. Very handy.
Following directions from the NavU is very easy. The screen is big and bright (adjustable) with automatic dimming for at night and in tunnels. It shows an elevated view of the route ahead with side panels showing distance, countdown to and direction to take at upcoming junctions and the one after that if it's close, name or the road you are on and name or the road to turn on to, distance to next destination, height above sea level, direction to north and estimated time of arrival at destination.
Audible instructions are given 2 miles 200 yards and 50 yards before any action needs to be taken, the only gripe being that the speakers could have been louder as at high speed it gets hard to hear. However, our truck was so noisy we couldn't hear the radio either at full speed so there you go. In any event the screen instructions were so good we never had a problem seeing which exit to take.
Deviations from the route were re-calculated quickly, and with the ability to program a block in the route ahead upon finding it blocked by for example a traffic accident, detours could easily be made without wasting time or worrying we were going off mark.
What doesn't it do? It doesn't work in long tunnel networks and it doesn't know ferry time tables or have a speed camera detection system. It doesn't play MP3's or show slideshows of your digital photos. The mount vibrated a bit a high speed and the speakers could have been louder.
All in all the NavU made driving abroad easier than watching TV and relaxing experience rather than a stressful one, and it allowed everyone travelling to relax rather than having to be constantly consulting maps or looking for road signs. After all those summer holidays watching my nearest and dearest constantly arguing over whether they should have gone this way or that way at the last exit, I never want to drive any distance without a decent nav if I can help it, and the NVU-70T is a very decent nav.