Sanyo Easy Street NVM-4370 4.3-Inch Portable GPS Navigator

by Sanyo

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 2.9 x 0.7 x 4.5 inches ; 1.2 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B001F0RNRW
• Item model number: NVM-4370
• Average Customer Review: 2.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (28 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #57,995 in Electronics (See Top 100 in Electronics)

Product Description

4.3" touch screen display with stylish thin bezel designPre-loaded 50 U.S. Puerto Rico and Canada mapsBluetooth enabled (built-in microphone) SMS and data transfer video input for back up camera SD card slotText-to-specch (TTS)Built-in 4.0GB internal memory 7 million points of interest (POI) and JPEG photo viewingVoice guidance turn-by-turn navigation and Li-Ion battery that last up to 4 hoursOptional TMC antenna kit English/Spanish/FrenchWorks as a rearview camera display (camera not included)Includes AC adaptor DC car charger car mounting kit USB cable DVD storing US and Canada map and video cable

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

20 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Stay Away From turd, January 14, 2009

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Bryon Gaskin (Houston, Texas) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Sanyo Easy Street NVM-4370 4.3-Inch Portable GPS Navigator (Electronics)

Buyer Beware: Know what you are getting into:
I wish it was possible to give a producet a 0 rating
Cons:
FM transmitter is terrible
Speaker is terrible
There is absolutely no support on the web for this product. You cannot download drivers, software, or manuals .
You have to exit navigation mode to do anything else, like listen to music, view pictures, or change any settings such as adjusting the brightness.
The maps are on the CD ROM, my CD ROM was defective, and kept receiving data read errors on every PC in my house when I tried to read from the CD ROM.
MUSIC: There is not playlist or auto add. You can only play the files in one folder, if you have multiple folders you cannot go to the top level folder and play all of the files in the sub folders...so using it as a music player is not really a viable option, unless you have all of your music in one single folder and almost no desktop music player (i.e. windows media player, itunes) arranges music files into a single folder

Video Player: is ok if you can figure which mp4 video files it will play, because it won't play most of them...don't bother looking in the instructions for details because you won't find them. Just like the music player you will have to have all of your videos in a single folder if you want to be able to have anything similar to a playlist. This doesn't represent as big a problem as the audio player as long as you are watching TV shows or movies because they are longer so you are trying to find a new track every 3 or 4 minutes.
Navigation Screen: The maps are little plain, pretty plain, there isn't a lot of difference between the 2D maps and the 3D maps. You won't find anything for trips like you find on the manufacture's devices like GARMIN, so there is no Odometer, Tripometer, or Speedometer. That is a pretty depressing point for me
Bluetooth connected pretty easy on my AT&T Tilt phone, but was unable to use the contacts function via bluetooth; also the SMS messages function does not work either.
Pros:
It has video
It has audio
Navigation works pretty well. It is pretty easy to use, but you need to spend some time getting to know the setup.
Voice is clear and pronounces most street names pretty well, although the speaker is so poor it is hard to hear a highway speeds.

Overall:
I would not recommend this product, it's a shame because it has a lot of features but none of them work well enough to be a selling point. Really disappointing is the fact the speaker is so poor and that the FM transmitter is pretty much worthless because that is something that should have been pretty obvious during product testing.
If Sanyo comes out with a firmware/software update, I might change my recommendation; until then I would navigate away from this GPS.
Reviewer Background:
*34 year old male
*Masters Degree
*10 + years in computer electronics industry
*Previous GPS owner
UPDATE:
After 3 days the unit suddenly stopped working. It will power on with a "SANYO" logo and that is it, did all of the resets that the manual called for. Nothing.
Tried calling customer support----unable to get through. Sanyo has a very simple phone tree that gives you two options. 1 for if you purchased walmart cameras and 2. for all other Sanyo products, when you press 2, it starts the phone tree all over again.

Update 2: Finally got in touch with the Sanyo Helpless Desk, told the them all of the troubleshooting I did and the pretty much told me to take it back where i got it.

STAY AWAY FROM THIS PRODUCT !!!!

22 of 25 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars impressive feature list lacks substance, December 6, 2008

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jollyroger "jollyroger" (Santa Cruz, CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Sanyo Easy Street NVM-4370 4.3-Inch Portable GPS Navigator (Electronics)

The features this products boasts look good on the surface, however when you get it out of the box and start using it, you find some strange limitations.

Pros:
* Maps seemed to be up to date and the routes were efficient for the time I had the unit.
* Menu was pretty easy to use and was intuitive.
* System seemed to be stable (No crashes)

Cons:
* You are forced to leave navigation mode to use a Bluetooth phone, (Returning to navigation takes a few seconds)
* Bluetooth communication was bad, you could hear others but they could not hear you, (Could have been a defect)
* FM transmission was pretty much useless, signal was weak so you had to turn the volume up a lot, you could hear the background static, and if you changed channels it would blast you if you forgot to turn the radio down first.
* It was pretty clear that updates to the maps and software were not available and I could not get support to answer me if they would become available when the current maps become obsolete.
* Customer service was unresponsive.
* Screen brightness wasn't connected to the day and night settings. Going to night mode the screen was still very bright, again you must leave the navigation mode to change the brightness settings. Same problem returning to day mode.
* POI's seemed to be somewhat dated, there were a couple of Whole Foods stores that were in northern California for at least a year, yet they were not included
* Searching for POI's near your location or along your route did not allow you to search for a POI name, you must look though the entire list. The only POI search available is when you look up POI's in a city. Was very annoying when you are unfamiliar with an area.
* Zooming out the maps lost detail very early. Looking at a route between LA and San Francisco did not show any roads or city names, was just a pink squiggly line on a overlay of California.

The unit we got had a defective car charger which was lucky so we didn't have to pay the restocking fee while returning it. We opted for a TomTom Go 730, since we had such good luck with the TomTom One 3rd edition.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars All in One device.. Audio Video player with GPS, February 23, 2009

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Alganis "Mr. Picky" (West Chester, PA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Sanyo Easy Street NVM-4370 4.3-Inch Portable GPS Navigator (Electronics)

I know it sounds weird, SANYO forgot to tell the users that they CAN use other functions during navigation.

To get the main menu during the navigation, press the top right button once, you'll get the main menu and you can listen to music files during navigation. If you want the main menu through the touch screen you'll be forced to leave the navigation mode.

I used four functions at a time in one of my long trips:
Real Example:

1. I keyed in my destination and the GPS started the trip guidance.
2. I pressed the top right button once (not the touch screen) to get the main menu.
3. I turned on my FM transmitter to hear all the voice guidance and all the audio output through my car radio.
4. I paired my cell phone through the Bluetooth.
5. I inserted my SD card to listen to my MP3 audio through my car radio.

And it worked like this:

"Feel the city breakin and every body's shakin"
/////DING....IN ONE MILE TAKE EXIT 43 ////
and we're stayin alive, stayin alive".

The GPS voice guidance will stop the music, announce the coming maneuver and start the music again.

And during that, I received a phone call, the phone call took over and stopped the music,and I listened to the caller through my car stereo, I had to disconnect the Bluetooth because the GPS voice guidance was interrupting me.

Two things you can't use during the navigation mode
1. Picture slides show.
2. Watching JPEG4 movies.
and that make sense for safety reasons.

Another good thing... the GPS accepts ZIP codes, no need to enter the city name.

I couldn't use the rear view camera feature.... Well the camera is very pricey!!