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Callaway upro mx+ introduces a new standard in Golf GPS devices, providing you with detailed course insight in a lightweight, compact and easy to use device, allowing you to make better decisions and play with confidence.
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24 of 24 people found the following review helpful
I have been using the uPro MX+ for awhile now and have found it to be a neat and fairly useful gadget.
PRO's
Small size. Fits in your pocket and is relatively unobtrusive while swinging your golf club.
Good GPS. Seems to lock quickly and be fairly accurate. Comparisons with laser derived distances have been within a few yards.
uExplore Website. The ability to upload scorecards and analyze your Fairways and Greens in Regulation can be interesting and fun. Flyovers and the option to explore courses on your computer is nice to prepare for upcoming rounds on unfamiliar courses. It's a lot easier to see the detail here than on the device as well.
Scorecard. It's nice to use your device to keep score. You can score for all the members of your group if you choose.
uPro Course Downloads. Included with the price of purchase.
CON's
Small size. The screen is pretty small and the resolution is good but not great. For those of us with not perfect eyesight, seeing the screen detail can be challenging at times. Be advised, if you wear polarized sunglasses while you play, they will effectively block out the screen image so you can't see it at all.
Battery Life. This is truly a one round machine, if you don't mind charging after every 18 holes maybe this won't be an issue.
Docking Cable. Seems to be a standard peripheral micro to USB, but mine is a challenge to plug in (device side micro plug) every time.
Anypoint Distance feature. Clunky to use and very challenging to get accurate distances with this. A large part of the problem is the form factor of this device is so small. Manipulating the optical pointer and then actually getting the right spot on the map is such a feat, I don't use it.
Touch screen. Again, form factor (size) of device does not help. I repeatedly find myself jabbing a my finger to the screen to try to get the right spot to get my selection. This seemed to get a little better the more I did it.
Flyover. Although this can be useful, the resolution isn't that hot.
Sync/Charge. Device does not seem to be able to sync and charge at the same time, you have to pick one or the other when you plug it in to your computer. Also, you have to tell it whether you're plugging into a Mac or PC every time. Really? Sync screen freezes on device once plugged in (the sync seems to work just fine however).
Overall, not a bad little golf GPS. A few of my noted issues could probably be solved via a firmware update. It does make me wonder though, why the majority of this units functionality couldn't be built into an app for the iPhone. Obviously the hardware is all there already, the display is larger, the display is better quality and higher resolution, the touch functionality is superior, the sync/charge process would be better, and everyone in the world already has one... As Alton Brown would say, nobody likes a uni-tasker. Actually, how 'bout build the uExplore out with some of the handheld features and make it an iPad app...Yup, that would be me, the dork with an iPad mounted to his push cart, ruling the links like Mr. Data on the bridge of the Enterprise.
Callaway are you out there??
PRO's
Small size. Fits in your pocket and is relatively unobtrusive while swinging your golf club.
Good GPS. Seems to lock quickly and be fairly accurate. Comparisons with laser derived distances have been within a few yards.
uExplore Website. The ability to upload scorecards and analyze your Fairways and Greens in Regulation can be interesting and fun. Flyovers and the option to explore courses on your computer is nice to prepare for upcoming rounds on unfamiliar courses. It's a lot easier to see the detail here than on the device as well.
Scorecard. It's nice to use your device to keep score. You can score for all the members of your group if you choose.
uPro Course Downloads. Included with the price of purchase.
CON's
Small size. The screen is pretty small and the resolution is good but not great. For those of us with not perfect eyesight, seeing the screen detail can be challenging at times. Be advised, if you wear polarized sunglasses while you play, they will effectively block out the screen image so you can't see it at all.
Battery Life. This is truly a one round machine, if you don't mind charging after every 18 holes maybe this won't be an issue.
Docking Cable. Seems to be a standard peripheral micro to USB, but mine is a challenge to plug in (device side micro plug) every time.
Anypoint Distance feature. Clunky to use and very challenging to get accurate distances with this. A large part of the problem is the form factor of this device is so small. Manipulating the optical pointer and then actually getting the right spot on the map is such a feat, I don't use it.
Touch screen. Again, form factor (size) of device does not help. I repeatedly find myself jabbing a my finger to the screen to try to get the right spot to get my selection. This seemed to get a little better the more I did it.
Flyover. Although this can be useful, the resolution isn't that hot.
Sync/Charge. Device does not seem to be able to sync and charge at the same time, you have to pick one or the other when you plug it in to your computer. Also, you have to tell it whether you're plugging into a Mac or PC every time. Really? Sync screen freezes on device once plugged in (the sync seems to work just fine however).
Overall, not a bad little golf GPS. A few of my noted issues could probably be solved via a firmware update. It does make me wonder though, why the majority of this units functionality couldn't be built into an app for the iPhone. Obviously the hardware is all there already, the display is larger, the display is better quality and higher resolution, the touch functionality is superior, the sync/charge process would be better, and everyone in the world already has one... As Alton Brown would say, nobody likes a uni-tasker. Actually, how 'bout build the uExplore out with some of the handheld features and make it an iPad app...Yup, that would be me, the dork with an iPad mounted to his push cart, ruling the links like Mr. Data on the bridge of the Enterprise.
Callaway are you out there??
37 of 44 people found the following review helpful
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I just got the UPRO mx+ this week. I have synced it to their callawayuxplore web site as instructed and downloaded the latest software and updates. It comes loaded with 1000s of courses in "basic mode" from all over the world. I then loaded a few local courses for their "Pro Mode", which gives you a satellite image of the course. So tonight I took it out for a 9 hole round to try it out. I have never used a golf GPS before, so this was new for me.
No instructions?: There are no printed instructions, just a 'quick start' pamphlet which explains the obvious buttons. I would like a complete user guide to read before using it, but you have to get a PDF file from their web site. There are some built-in videos explaining some features, but you need your own headphones to plug into hear them, and they are short and not easy to memorize. So I hoped that, on the course, the features would be intuitive.
On the course: It took several minutes to set up the game -- choose the course, set your playing partners' initials, etc. The small touch-screen is difficult to accurately 'click' on icons with your fingers. I don't know if the screen is heat or pressure sensitive, but I had a hard time tap-tap-tapping the icons and letters to get it to enter the info. This was a problem throughout the round - sometimes it took 8-10 taps to work. Meanwhile, you're standing there holding up the game.
The screen is fairly visible in most light conditions, although the screen is shiny, and so in direct sun it's hard to see through the fingerprints and glare.
When you set up to play a hole, it will initially give you a close up of just the green, with yardages from wherever you are standing. You can zoom out to see the whole hole, although it took me three holes to figure out how the 'zoom' icon works, and then it was not easy to use it with your fingertip.
One major thing I would have liked to see on the screen is where "I" am on the course. Presumably, you are usually standing by your ball or moving to it, so it would be nice to see an icon on the fairway or tee box showing your current position. One would think this function would be a no-brainer for a GPS device.
The instructions mention a "shot tracking" feature where you have it record the distance you hit each club. This would be great to get an accurate yardage range for your clubs, coupled with the exact distances you get with a GPS. But this feature is disabled at this time.
Keeping score was somewhat easy enough, where you click on a scorecard icon and then click a + or - to change your score on a hole, and to keep a count of putts and of GIR and Fairways hit. However, there was no way I could find to show the whole scorecard at a glance -- you must look at every hole's score individually to check your scores. Maybe I just don't know how to do it, but like I said above, I was hoping it would be intuitive and it was not.
One thing that really ticked me off was that on the 6th hole, the unit reset and lost all my scores! I was carrying it in my pocket, where it would usually go into "sleep mode" until I took it out to check a yardage or enter scores. When I took it out on the 6th green, it was acting like I wanted to play a new round and there was no way to go back and tell it I was still playing! Next time, I will keep my score with a pencil and scorecard, sheesh.
On the 9th hole, the screen froze and it no longer accepted any 'tapping' input on the screen. You could push the buttons and change the 'mode' and turn it on and off, but the touch screen was not working. I don't know whether maybe the battery was low or what the problem was, but I could not enter the final hole score or see the total score for the round. Also, the GPS stopped tracking as if it lost the satellites.
The final thing that bothered me was that the battery on this unit is way underpowered. I barely got 9 holes in and it had about 25% battery left. If you plan on playing more than 9 holes, I would suggest buying a second battery as a backup.
So in conclusion, the yardages from the front, mid, back of the green and the front and back of bunkers, are nice to see and use in your round. It helped me to know the exact yardages to know which club to choose. The satellite images are nice, but not really necessary -- I would be happy with just a graphic image of the course. So that's about all the good I can say about this GPS. Luckily I got this unit from Amazon to review - with all the issues above, I would not spend any money on this GPS. Instead you can get free Smart Phone apps (my golfing buddy had GolfLogix to compare with this GPS tonight) that work just as well and have more features (like seeing your current location, and a full scorecard, hello!). Unless they fix the above problems with future software updates, I would not buy this GPS.
Update 7/2/12: I took it out again last night to see if the above comments were really valid. I'm sorry to say that yes, this GPS really is too much of a pain to use all its features. I think I can use it in basic mode just to get distances to the green and hazards; but as far as the touch-screen and scoring, I just get frustrated trying to see and use that tiny screen with my fingers and thumb. So if you need distances, get a cheaper GPS (like the highly-rated Garmin Approach S1 Waterproof Golf GPS Watch or the Bushnell Neo+ Golf GPS Rangefinder) or even just a laser rangefinder like the Bushnell PinPro Rangefinder.
No instructions?: There are no printed instructions, just a 'quick start' pamphlet which explains the obvious buttons. I would like a complete user guide to read before using it, but you have to get a PDF file from their web site. There are some built-in videos explaining some features, but you need your own headphones to plug into hear them, and they are short and not easy to memorize. So I hoped that, on the course, the features would be intuitive.
On the course: It took several minutes to set up the game -- choose the course, set your playing partners' initials, etc. The small touch-screen is difficult to accurately 'click' on icons with your fingers. I don't know if the screen is heat or pressure sensitive, but I had a hard time tap-tap-tapping the icons and letters to get it to enter the info. This was a problem throughout the round - sometimes it took 8-10 taps to work. Meanwhile, you're standing there holding up the game.
The screen is fairly visible in most light conditions, although the screen is shiny, and so in direct sun it's hard to see through the fingerprints and glare.
When you set up to play a hole, it will initially give you a close up of just the green, with yardages from wherever you are standing. You can zoom out to see the whole hole, although it took me three holes to figure out how the 'zoom' icon works, and then it was not easy to use it with your fingertip.
One major thing I would have liked to see on the screen is where "I" am on the course. Presumably, you are usually standing by your ball or moving to it, so it would be nice to see an icon on the fairway or tee box showing your current position. One would think this function would be a no-brainer for a GPS device.
The instructions mention a "shot tracking" feature where you have it record the distance you hit each club. This would be great to get an accurate yardage range for your clubs, coupled with the exact distances you get with a GPS. But this feature is disabled at this time.
Keeping score was somewhat easy enough, where you click on a scorecard icon and then click a + or - to change your score on a hole, and to keep a count of putts and of GIR and Fairways hit. However, there was no way I could find to show the whole scorecard at a glance -- you must look at every hole's score individually to check your scores. Maybe I just don't know how to do it, but like I said above, I was hoping it would be intuitive and it was not.
One thing that really ticked me off was that on the 6th hole, the unit reset and lost all my scores! I was carrying it in my pocket, where it would usually go into "sleep mode" until I took it out to check a yardage or enter scores. When I took it out on the 6th green, it was acting like I wanted to play a new round and there was no way to go back and tell it I was still playing! Next time, I will keep my score with a pencil and scorecard, sheesh.
On the 9th hole, the screen froze and it no longer accepted any 'tapping' input on the screen. You could push the buttons and change the 'mode' and turn it on and off, but the touch screen was not working. I don't know whether maybe the battery was low or what the problem was, but I could not enter the final hole score or see the total score for the round. Also, the GPS stopped tracking as if it lost the satellites.
The final thing that bothered me was that the battery on this unit is way underpowered. I barely got 9 holes in and it had about 25% battery left. If you plan on playing more than 9 holes, I would suggest buying a second battery as a backup.
So in conclusion, the yardages from the front, mid, back of the green and the front and back of bunkers, are nice to see and use in your round. It helped me to know the exact yardages to know which club to choose. The satellite images are nice, but not really necessary -- I would be happy with just a graphic image of the course. So that's about all the good I can say about this GPS. Luckily I got this unit from Amazon to review - with all the issues above, I would not spend any money on this GPS. Instead you can get free Smart Phone apps (my golfing buddy had GolfLogix to compare with this GPS tonight) that work just as well and have more features (like seeing your current location, and a full scorecard, hello!). Unless they fix the above problems with future software updates, I would not buy this GPS.
Update 7/2/12: I took it out again last night to see if the above comments were really valid. I'm sorry to say that yes, this GPS really is too much of a pain to use all its features. I think I can use it in basic mode just to get distances to the green and hazards; but as far as the touch-screen and scoring, I just get frustrated trying to see and use that tiny screen with my fingers and thumb. So if you need distances, get a cheaper GPS (like the highly-rated Garmin Approach S1 Waterproof Golf GPS Watch or the Bushnell Neo+ Golf GPS Rangefinder) or even just a laser rangefinder like the Bushnell PinPro Rangefinder.
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars
Used this as a caddy for my 25 handicap buddy - here's what we found
July 25, 2012
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PROS:
* Small footprint
* Quick and accurate GPS locks
* Comprehensive coverage of golf courses
CONS:
* Callaway Uxplore website can be confusing
* Satellite course views are low resolution
* No "you are here" icon while using
I'm the kind of person who is pretty facile with different technologies, so I decided to loan this to a buddy (middle aged security guard with average end-user technical background, I'll call him "Frank" which is not his real name) for a couple of weeks, then go as his caddy for a couple of 18 hole rounds. I wanted an average user's opinion for this review. We're both regularly 25-30 handicap players (yes, we suck at golf). We tested this at the Normandie Golf Course in St. Louis, Missouri on two occasions for a total of 2 x 18 = 36 holes. Our group consisted of Frank, three buddies, and me as Frank's caddy (he owes me). Neither of us has ever used any similar golf GPS device.
Frank had no problems registering and setting up an account for downloading the satellite imagery of our local courses. We were both pretty impressed that even some of the crummier par-3 courses in the area were included. Though the Callaway Uxplore site has some usability issues, Frank was able to pretty much figure everything out.
The small size of the UPRO MX+ means it fits nicely in almost any pocket and doesn't get in the way. It's easy to pop it out and use it after each shot. After some initial fumbling, by the fifth hole we were both pretty comfortable using the UPRO MX+. Even without directions the average Joe (or "Frank") can figure the device out pretty easily. And using it was a blast! First, the overview of each hole was just cool. We knew EXACTLY where we wanted to drive the ball. No matter how bad a shot was hit (and a lot of bad shots were hit) we always knew how far away from the hole we were. Probably our biggest complaint was not seeing an icon (e.g., a red dot or an x) telling us where we were. That's not a big deal since for each hole, being able to see the entire layout anytime we wanted meant that we knew where we were in all cases.
We tried out a lot of the features, like keeping score, and weren't generally impressed. Our main use was seeing each hole regularly, and being able to easily know the distances we needed for our initial and subsequent shots. The second time we used the UPRO MX+ we pretty much just used it just for that. Most difficulty we had was getting this back from our partners on the course. Everyone of them wants one now.
Not having experience with other devices to compare with this one, all we can say is that the UPRO MX+ was a really fun toy to use. I wouldn't hesitate to recommend this as a luxury personal purchase, or a special gift for the duffer in the family.
* Small footprint
* Quick and accurate GPS locks
* Comprehensive coverage of golf courses
CONS:
* Callaway Uxplore website can be confusing
* Satellite course views are low resolution
* No "you are here" icon while using
I'm the kind of person who is pretty facile with different technologies, so I decided to loan this to a buddy (middle aged security guard with average end-user technical background, I'll call him "Frank" which is not his real name) for a couple of weeks, then go as his caddy for a couple of 18 hole rounds. I wanted an average user's opinion for this review. We're both regularly 25-30 handicap players (yes, we suck at golf). We tested this at the Normandie Golf Course in St. Louis, Missouri on two occasions for a total of 2 x 18 = 36 holes. Our group consisted of Frank, three buddies, and me as Frank's caddy (he owes me). Neither of us has ever used any similar golf GPS device.
Frank had no problems registering and setting up an account for downloading the satellite imagery of our local courses. We were both pretty impressed that even some of the crummier par-3 courses in the area were included. Though the Callaway Uxplore site has some usability issues, Frank was able to pretty much figure everything out.
The small size of the UPRO MX+ means it fits nicely in almost any pocket and doesn't get in the way. It's easy to pop it out and use it after each shot. After some initial fumbling, by the fifth hole we were both pretty comfortable using the UPRO MX+. Even without directions the average Joe (or "Frank") can figure the device out pretty easily. And using it was a blast! First, the overview of each hole was just cool. We knew EXACTLY where we wanted to drive the ball. No matter how bad a shot was hit (and a lot of bad shots were hit) we always knew how far away from the hole we were. Probably our biggest complaint was not seeing an icon (e.g., a red dot or an x) telling us where we were. That's not a big deal since for each hole, being able to see the entire layout anytime we wanted meant that we knew where we were in all cases.
We tried out a lot of the features, like keeping score, and weren't generally impressed. Our main use was seeing each hole regularly, and being able to easily know the distances we needed for our initial and subsequent shots. The second time we used the UPRO MX+ we pretty much just used it just for that. Most difficulty we had was getting this back from our partners on the course. Everyone of them wants one now.
Not having experience with other devices to compare with this one, all we can say is that the UPRO MX+ was a really fun toy to use. I wouldn't hesitate to recommend this as a luxury personal purchase, or a special gift for the duffer in the family.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
5.0 out of 5 stars
Golf GPS
I really like this Callaway Golf GPS. I especially like the flyover view that uses satellite pictures so I can actually see the course before i play it.
Published 6 days ago by RogerD
2.0 out of 5 stars
Will not sync
If you buy the UPRO MX+ do not expect to be able to use the pro mode with the aerial fly over. The device does not sync. Read more
Published 15 days ago by scott page
1.0 out of 5 stars
Bad News
I use to have the less expensive U pro go which worked just fine. It fell off my cart and the screen broke. Callaway offered me the upgrade for $149. Read more
Published 18 days ago by Donald Doolittle
1.0 out of 5 stars
UPRO MX Golf GPS
I received my UPRO MX for Christmas and was very excited to get to try it out. This thing is a joke and I can see why the price has dropped in half. Mine was $159. Read more
Published 27 days ago by Ralph Vaughan
1.0 out of 5 stars
Windows 8 not supported.
Might work, don't know. Do know that Calloway does not support the UPRO MX on Windows 8 which makes it useless as far as I am concerned.
Published 1 month ago by John Bushong
4.0 out of 5 stars
Better suited for some than others
For me, this was a 3 star device. However I gave it 4 stars because I do believe that others will be able to better use many of the features that did not work in my remote... Read more
Published 1 month ago by Angela Streiff
3.0 out of 5 stars
Gimmicky and not worth the money
Construction
Solid hard plastic case with a touch screen and 3 buttons: Power, Mode and Finger Navigation. There is a micro-USB port and headphone jack. Read more
Solid hard plastic case with a touch screen and 3 buttons: Power, Mode and Finger Navigation. There is a micro-USB port and headphone jack. Read more
Published 1 month ago by Eagle Vision
4.0 out of 5 stars
Good Product
I'm not a golfer--but my son is. He's used this a few times and he says it works fine. I was impressed that it was able to get the small golf courses around our location in... Read more
Published 1 month ago by V. Hutson
4.0 out of 5 stars
I love golf toys
I've been using this Callaway GPS for months and I've found it to be very useful while on the course. The screen is a bit hard to see while I'm wearing polarized sunglasses. Read more
Published 1 month ago by Wixby Bonnet
4.0 out of 5 stars
Accurate yardage but the screen is small
If you are looking for a GPS unit to calculate the yardage to the hole, then you will not be disappointed with this GPS unit. Read more
Published 1 month ago by M. Leingang
