Customer Reviews

Nextar X3-02 3.5-Inch Portable GPS Navigator

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I cant find an update for the maps!! As advertised. The box comes with a cable to connect to the internet, I dont want to use the mp3 option. To put it lightly, I am a country boy in california who knows a lot about back roads, and this thing always tries to take me to the freeway, highway, or interstate! The options in the settings are: Major, Less turns, Fastest, Which some roads I noticed that have been established for 4+ years are not on this thing! Instructions in the book dont tell you nothing about "updating maps" We read it over and over and come up with the name of the program Nextar uses, but when you sign up for automatic updates..... nothing! Nothing at all, you have to choose your language, plus the product you bought.... which is not on thier list x3-02. I have been waiting several months for an update notice..... I guess I have to drive MY way and not the GPS way, and keep going "off road"--- "make a u- turn" untill the TTS gets its way!
I will say, I sent my 2 girls to Sacremento..... everytime I plugged the address in, the TTS lady will get you there! I tried myself several times in the 2-3 months I owned it, TTS gets you there, but what about the roads that have been established for 4 YEARS? No Updates?????

I recently received this as a gift for Christmas.
Positives: Music player - a little quiet but like an ipod with speakers; Can possibly save your butt when you're lost; Very portable; You can plug it in right out of the box
Negatives: Sometimes take ten minutes to get enough signals to locate where you are; About half the drives I took it lost my position multiple times and repeatedly told me to take u-turns even though I was still on the correct route
I live in the Boston Area - so maybe it works better in different regions. Good luck!

I have read many reviews and it is stating the product is average, I have got the new Nextar X3-02 Gps Navigation System today, and i did a test run more than 1 hour, the item is working excellently. This unit is pretty good for the money we spent, for the same features we need to spend minimum of 300 dollars. Out the box the unit worked very well, i connect to the laptop and recharged the inbuilt battery. i observed that the volume could be louder, it is in medium level. Text to Speach is working very well. It is recaluclating the route fastly.

Item lasted about 1 week. Sent it to Nextar for repair/replacement. They sent me a replacement and it lasted about a week and went dead.

My first GPS was an Nextar X3. It quit working shortly after getting it and I was charged $25 S&H to get it repaired. It worked OK long enough for the warranty to run out. It was always very slow aquiring a signal. Now it locks up 3 to 4 times on a short trip (less than twenty miles). It takes 5 to 10 minutes to get it to reset and even more time to aquire a new signal. I have had it for over a year but haven't used it more than 20 times. The initial price was cheap compared to other units but expensive considering the limited use I got. O well, I just solved my problem with the purchase of a new TomTom. I will never buy anything with the Nextar name on it.Nextar X3 3.5-Inch Portable GPS Navigator and MP3 PlayerNextar X3-RE 3.5-Inch Portable GPS Navigator

It works alright, but there are no map updates! Roads change so often and a lot of the newer addresses I put in cannot be found! Nextar does not offer map updates, which will make this obsolete in no time. Very unfortunate, because it works fairly well otherwise.

I usually don't have a problem with the unit acquiring a signal and have been using it pretty heavily for almost a year now with no crashes, lockups or anything like that. However, the lack of any map updates is getting very troubling. Even though I received my unit as a gift for Christmas 2007, its map seems to be much older than that. For example, my house was built in 2004 and my X3-02 doesn't know that my subdivision exists. Since I visit growing towns a lot, it can be very frustrating.

If you live in or travel to an area with a lot of new construction and/or road changes, I'd recommend you buy a GPS from a company that makes map updates easily available. Unfortunately, Nextar is not such a company.

Pros: Price, touch screen, Text to speech
Cons: No apparent updates, maps are old, not always best route
First, it took some time to charge out the box - you have to charge via USB cable or your cars AC adapter (I decided just to buy an outlet adapter for a few bucks so can now charge from an outlet). The satellite connection seems reasonable and it typically is a good unit for finding addresses. There are a few it cannot find and I usually find a close POI and navigate to that (I first find the address on an online map so I know where to go once I reach the POI). I have noticed it will give some weird directions - if you are familiar with the area you know to ignore it. For instance, where I live RTE 53 South will basically become I290 but this thing tried to have me follow the signs for RTE 53 which would have me exit I290 and then it was going to re-route me back to I290 where if I just stay on the highway I'm fine. It does re-calc the route pretty quickly which is nice. I haven't been able to get mine to play music, but it did show pictures. I don't know how useful those features are while driving, i.e. I don't know if you play music if it's going to revert to GPS mode when you need to make a turn. I did try the power save but that apparently requires you to turn the unit back on - it doesn't automatically turn back on when you get close to your next turn so you have to remember to do that. It also is hard to hear sometimes even on the loudest setting. It does seem to find destinations fairly well although there have been times when it has been slightly off (for instance telling me to turn left when I can see my destination was to my right).

Bottom Line: Great for the price, but you may want to check online maps prior and then input the destination on this unit and review the route to make sure it's at least close before you head out.

This has been a great GPS system. We did have a problem with the screen after 90 days and thought that the company would not warranty it, but they were very responsive & actually sent us a new one right before we went on vacation.

I got it as a replacement for my broken C3 under warrant. I only tried it once and found the TTS works very well. For the GPS function, it's better than the C3 and my Tomtom one. For the price and service, Nextar is better than the Tomtom that I bought last year. Recommended.