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4 Reviews for Viamichelin Navigation X-980T Europe 2 GB
Excellent Navigation Tool - 23 Aug 2007
1 out of 2 found this review helpful.
Apart from the manual and starter manual (that's what knocked off the 5th star) not quite matching the X-980T the instrument is superbly easy to install and use. The data is as up to date as you could expect, the traffic messages - and automatic re-routing - work well. Voice-synthesis is far better than I expected, very few howlers. It's good to have a device which understands going on foot or bicycle.
Full spec GPS - 07 Jun 2007
4 out of 6 found this review helpful.
Nice to have all you want and nothing else, Blue tooth, traffic, great POIs (from the Michelin guide) and no wasted tinny MP3 music that we can do better through the car.
But: Sent down lots of residential dead ends (pedestrian outlets!) and forest tracks. Worst though was being directed ONTO A DUAL CARRIAGEWAY THE WRONG WAY ('turn sharp left' yeah!) and because the very helpful split screen tracks your progress through each junction, it confirmed the wrong turn right through the slip road: Pure bad mapping; humpf. German autobahns with lots of parallel slip roads are not always well explained, though on the whole the voice guide and long distance 'motorway mode' functions do well to get you ready.
Not the very most intuitive interface either, lots of screen taps to get to where you want to be with small areas to hit with a finger nail (stylus is out of reach in its holder when mounted. 2 examples- First: 9 taps to get to the nearest petrol station, not for while driving really! Second: When typing in addresses will not jump to the selection when only '1 result found' stage is reached: 3 more taps are required!
The screen is too reflective: Screen info can be nearly invisible if you've got the angle wrong, though the holder is good.
And I'd have chosen different functions to be on the 6 quick dial buttons for at least 3 of them; but you only find out what they're for after you download the PDF manual.
Traffic info doesn't seem very clear to me, and have not been able to spot congestion to try diverting round that yet; when keen to go by particular roads, as opposed to via a point, can't get an alternate route easily.
Oh and what else: Registering the product online; to complete the process I need the code ViaMichelin will email back to me: No sign of it yet after 3 months: It'll be impossible to save/ reset / recover from CD if I have a problem in the meantime. That said, the company helpdesk and website has been efficient for other things: New drivers/ updates are easy to do, you get a high-grade human for tech fixes early in the electronic menu options!
So do I like it? My 1st GPS: Still impresed by how much it helps but lots of room for improvement. (Particularly: still no registration code).
Best GPS I have used - 17 Apr 2007
7 out of 7 found this review helpful.
I have used two different Navman models and thay have been 3 out of 5 stars. Part down to the fact a local petrol station on both were marked as being a couple of miles out of the town where a Windmill is.
The text to speech is really good as it announces the street name and junction number on the motorway. It can take some getting used too when to tells you to get in lane when you may not need too.... all depends how the junction is shown on the maps.
The diagrammatic split screen works really well and is a big help on traffic islands to give a better impression of the exit. Others that give give the exit number don't really help you to decide which lane you may need as the first exit could be half way around the island.
Motorway mode works well, in that the unit switches to an 'overview' map when it's more than 20miles to the next instruction and returns to the navigation view when your about 4 miles away. Handy as you know your getting closer.
You also get Fixed Speed camera alerts with the speed announced, you can import your own and get a beep, on a positive note the guide overrides the beep, this is unlike Navman which would beep and then not give the rest of the instruction.
As an added bonus you get the guide contents for hotels and tourist places and they are offering a Map upgrade along with other 'extras' to come later this year. Looking at the website they are planning to provide Weather information via the Bluetooth connection. Which BTW works well as a handsfree kit, not sure how well it works when navigating.
Awesome - 16 Apr 2007
9 out of 10 found this review helpful.
Very briefly, this little machine is brilliant. I have just driven 2400 km from Lisbon, Portugal to Florence, Italy, with overnight stops in Madrid, Barcelona and Cannes. With one exception the X980-T delivered me right to the front door of the hotel I was staying in. The one exception was not the fault of the machine, but a result of the hotel address being wrong in the first place. After a few moments of panic I got the correct address and this little beast got me right there.
At one point on the route, we got stuck in traffic and the device recalculated the route automatically and directed us round the worst of the stoppage.
Having the entire collection of Michelin Guides on board, free traffic information and (nearly) free updates is the icing on a very tasty cake.
Buy it and enjoy!