JVC eAvinu KVPX9B 3.5-Inch Portable GPS Navigator

by JVC

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 12.1 x 6.4 x 4.2 inches ; 2.4 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 4 pounds
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B000HEBDS2
• Item model number: KVPX9BN
• Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (26 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #33,597 in Electronics (See Top 100 in Electronics)

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

The JVC eAvinu KVPX9B makes navigation easier and faster than ever before. This system features a built-in antenna, a full-color 3.5-inch touchscreen monitor for viewing movies stored on the built-in hard disk drive, a compact design for easy portability, and 15 GB of pre-loaded map navigation data for the United States, Canada, and Puerto Rico. The SD card slot lets you enjoy MP3, WMA, WAV and video playback, and view JPEG or MPEG4 files. You can also take advantage of the hefty database, which includes 13 million points of interest, like restaurants, hotels, hospitals, main attractions, and more.

Chock full of helpful features, the KVPX9B saves you time and offers you peace of mind while traveling. The multiple destination search function is ideal for vacations or any trip when you plan on visiting several locations in a short period of time, and the three-language male or female voice guidance keeps you on track. For added convenience, the KVPX9 organizes 300 favorite destinations in eight groups, with icons, and offers you three GB of personal file storage.

What's in the Box
KV-PX9B GPS unit, carrying case, suctioncup mount, cradle, dashboard disc, and cigarette lighter adapter.

Product Description

GPS receiver with built-in antenna, touchscreen controls, 20-gigabyte hard drive contains maps of the U.S., Canada, and Puerto Rico, SD card slot offers MP3/WMA/WAV and video playback, 3.5" diagonal color screen, mount, DC

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

25 of 30 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Wouldn't even buy it for 100 bucks, November 12, 2006

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B. nguyen (Anaheim, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: JVC eAvinu KVPX9B 3.5-Inch Portable GPS Navigator (Electronics)

PROS:
1. Solid build quality
2. Play video & MP3 (though I haven't used these features since I bought it mainly for the GPS functionality)
3. Good price (when it's on sale and when they fix all the bugs below)
4. Uses NAVTEQ map data

CONS:
1. Too thick and too heavy due to the 20gb hard drive inside
2. Too slow, everytime you try to move the map it reads the hard drive and then updates the screen, this process takes like 1-2 seconds and in computer terms it's a life time
3. You can hear the hard drive spin up & down, kinda ennoying
4. The POI feature sucks big time, you would need to enter a state and then a city first, what if you only know the name of the restaurant and don't know exactly what city it's in ???
5. There's no AC adapter, you would need to go to RadioShack and get one if you want to charge it at home and not in the car
6. It takes forever to LOCK on sat signal and this is even outdoors in the car driving, even when it locks on signal it would from time to time lose the signal, what good is a GPS navigator if there's no signal ???
7. It can get warm due to the hard drive
8. Update firmware requires a SD card not less than 128MB and not bigger than 512MB, nowadays people use 2GB cards so this is a big hassle
9. It doesn't display all the street names, only the one you're driving on and if you're lucky maybe a few other ones around your current position


In short, this is such a waste of money but luckily I didn't buy it online and the store I bought it from has a 30-day money back return policy, I also bought the Mio C310x at the same time I bought this JVC and the Mio is such a wonderful GPS, it beats this piece-of-junk JVC in each and every category (the mio doesn't play video unless you get the C710) and I paid 70 bucks less than what I paid for the JVC

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Cannot catch the signal in Cities, April 3, 2007

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Haroon Rashid - See all my reviews
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This review is from: JVC eAvinu KVPX9B 3.5-Inch Portable GPS Navigator (Electronics)

I bought this unit just because it plays videos and it is inexpensive. I am not happy with the product. I used Garmin2610 before and this unit is inferior compare to Garmin. The major problem with unit is: "it doesn't catch the signal properly". I went to New York city and moving around all over the streets and it never get the Satellite signal. It only detected the signal on West Side Highway. Garmin didn't have this problem, it loses the signal in New York often but Not like JVC which never receive satellite signal. I went to Florida and I was not happy with it's perfomance.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great for the Price--Will somebody please Hack this unit?, January 22, 2007

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Jacob Marley "Down Cerebus, down boy" (Hades, Tennessee) - See all my reviews

This review is from: JVC eAvinu KVPX9B 3.5-Inch Portable GPS Navigator (Electronics)

I too purchased this unit from CompUSA when it was recently reduced to $199. At that price point, this is a great GPS unit.

When I received the eAvinu, the first thing I did was run a routing and performance test between this unit and my Pocket PC's CoPilot Live Bluetooth setup.

The satellite acquision time was about the same for each. The CoPilot Bluetooth receiver (a branded EMTAC with the 12 channel SiRF III chip) was actually slower in a couple of heavy overcast situations. They both locked onto a similar number of sats, but not always. In fact, as I write this the CoPilot is locked on 6 sats, the eAvinu 7! Not bad from the "inferior" 8 channel JVC.

In my in-car tests, both showed random routing quirkyness. The CoPilot refuses to correctly identify the position of my house on the street, has trouble with elevated freeways, sometimes showing you on the surface street beside it. The eAvinu sometimes tells you to make a strange turn when it attempts to reroute. Both got me where I was going with little fuss.

The eAvinu's touch screen is very bright. The buttons are big, no stylus needed. It offers a number of map views, 2D and 3D "through the windshield." The voice choices are limited, and there is a very limited text-to-speech. Most folks say the eAvinu doesn't do TTS, but my unit advises me to take "US-50" or "I-80," just no TTS street names. It doesn't display speed or altitude, but it does display an "ETA." The POI file on this thing is wonderful, really large.

I love the mp3 player. It attenuates the music to give driving instructions. The movie player is a little particular about its file types. I can only get .wmv files play. You can only watch movies while stopped, natch.

In the package you get the unit itself, a very beefy windshield mount with a dash disk for us unforetunates in CA, a car charger and a carrying case. No AC adapter included in mine. But, my CoPilot unit came with a "Y" cable with a 4mm positive charging tip on one end and a mini-USB on the other. So, I can charge the PDA and the eAvinu from the same cable. You can buy a wall plug adapter and a cigarette lighter plug for this setup for a very few bucks to make a complete car/home kit that fits in your pocket. The battery charges in about 2.5 hours on AC, same for the car. I've used it on battery for over fours hours with the mp3 player and GPS working and still had 40% battery left.

I'm keeping mine. I paid about the same for just the software and GPS antenna of my CoPilot setup. They work well together. As soon as some wiseguy hacks this thing, it'll be really cool.