Customer Reviews

Moov S401 4.3in. Car Navigation System

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I feel very comfortable with Mio GPS C310X and C320 after owning them for several years. So, I decided to move to new S401 and S501. I bought them at the same time. What a disappointment! It seems that the products have removed many important features that make Mio GPS standing out from other competitors such as
(1) Adjustable smart zoom settings. S-series is a fix zoom level, no tilt level on 3D.
(2) Track recording with detail distance & speed. The journey record has no time and speed information.
(3) Satellites info and attitude. Complete missing this feature.
(4) Geo coordinates input and recall. Only possible through Google map. The locations will be moved to nearest street address randomly.
(5) Planned trip info for both next via & final destination. S-series shows only the next Waypoint DTG, TTG, ETA, no information on the final destination. This is problematic because the waypoint sometimes is a forced via, only the destination is important.
(6) Personal POIs category management. It ends up with a bunch of saved, unorganized locations in "My Places".
(7) Large speedometer display. Very small number in the lower priority of the right column. However, the useless Clock is high up, a bad arrangement.
(8) Battery life. It only last for 1 hour of operation. Not 2.5 hours.
(9) Anything related to Microphone are not available. Why bother written in the owner's manual, such as Bluetooth, Voice recording...?
(10) Same thing on FM transmission. Why bother written in the manual?
(11) Photo radar locations feature is unavailable at this moment. It said it can through subscription on their ads.
(12) Unknown GPS Log. Don't turn this feature on. It will dump a lot of 2MB files on the device every few minutes.
(13) Captured Journey can only e-mail out as KMZ file without time stamp.
(14) Custom POIs fail to alert visually & audioly. This feature is not working currently from the customer support.
(15) Photo Album can only be located by Geo coordinates. In the computer, the location is exact. But after transferring to GPS, it only locates to the nearest street. Sometimes, it shows "no map available" at remote area.

Mio actually has ended the terms with iGo, the software company. S-series is totally different from previous C-series or M-series devices. So, it is a mistake for me to jump into the Spirit GPS so quickly.

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5 months after owning this GPS, the battery holds no charge at all. Since it is so bad when I had it side-by-side usage for 5000 miles drive last month across America with C320, I don't even want to sent it back for warranty repair. There is no point to revive this terribly design machine. Mio Tech has a long way to go to bring back my confidence because they have no fix or any upgrades to Spirit software.

If your like not having to plug your gps in every time you use it this is not for your. If you like waiting for 25 minutes to find a signal. Than this is perfict. The mount that it come with is useless. Do not buy this gps it is a waist of money.

I find the interface for entering one's destination to be clumsy. The unit does, however, guide you to the place you want to go, has a big screen, and pronounces street names. At $70 (the pricepoint in July 2010)it's a perfectly decent value.