Customer Reviews

Nokia NAVKITN800 Navigation Kit for N800 Internet Tablet

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This GPS device works more or less as advertised. It is definitely not as smooth to use as a Nuvi 350. But the biggest problem I had (which made me return it) was that there were only maybe 10% of the streets of Minneapolis and St. Paul shown. It was very weird in that the lakes, rivers, streams, railroad tracks, etc were shown...just no streets. I sent it back and had another sent out, but the 2nd one had the same problem. I'm guessing if these streets were missing, then plenty of others will be too. I really wanted this gadget to work so I'm very disappointed. I tried getting an explanation from the Navicore people but that was absolutely fruitless. I assume that eventually this will be fixed but for the time being: buyer beware.

NokiaUSA has this listed on their store now, but for now there aren't maps for the NaviCore software that this uses. If you go to their website directly you'll not be able to purchase it for the US.

I'm surprised the earlier reviewer found US street data *at all*.

Buyers should note that this isn't useful for the US market in general at this time.

I'm not sure why the previous reviewer had map missing map data. You have to select the proper map (see 1st comment under application).

I used this device last week for a trip from Washington, D.C. to Denver, via Dallas and have the following:

Map Data:
- The map data contains a lot of town/zip-code inaccuracies. Use the zip code to look up addresses, especially rural ones.
- Some street numbers are missing, even if the street appears on the map.
- Some street numbers are not accurate to the location (off by hundreds of yards).

Application (the first 3 were the worst):
- It won't automatically change maps. I had to specify a destination at the Mississippi river, cross it, change maps & specify the real destination. History is tied to the loaded map.
- If you aren't on a road (such as in a parking lot), it can't give you route data (instead of assuming the nearest road).
- I had one rural address that it said existed, and couldn't plot a route. I noticed that it couldn't do the last little bit. I backed out about 2 miles and was able to get directions to there and once I got there, it could plot the last 2 miles. Go figure.
- The "Sara" voice is annoyingly happy with an upper midwest accent (I think Chicago). No other American Woman voice. May try a British voice instead. Looks like you could replace them with your own (they are OGG files). Not sure I want my wife or daughter giving me instructions though!
- Sometimes it would talk you through a highway split, sometimes it wouldn't.
- Only about half a dozen of the last destinations are in the history. My Mio device has remembered all of them.
- A couple of times the application exited on it's own with no comment from the device.
- Private driveways are present (especially rural areas) and it gives you turning instructions to stay on the road which are not necessary.
- Sometimes it gives you a 2 mile warning before a turn, sometimes it doesn't.
- In 2-D mode, it won't keep North at the top, even if you try to select it.
- In night-mode, only the map is darkened, not all the other display items, so it is still bright.
- Power save mode should be disabled if the device is plugged in.

GPS Receiver:
- Doesn't provide battery data to the application.

Good Points:
- The directions are better than from my Mio C710 which likes to say: "Keep left. Keep left. Turn Right" and now that I'm in the far left lane....
- I like the seperate GPS receiver (so I can move the N800 around the car).
- The GPS receiver was sensitive enough that it didn't have to be on the dash.
- Battery life was good. I swapped the car changer between devices every 3-4 hours.

Works as expected but the n800 has very slow response times, I highly recommend that you use the n810 since it has an integrated GPS unit in it.