Customer Reviews

Sony NVU74T 4.3-Inch Widescreen Bluetooth Portable GPS Navigator with Traffic and Text-to-Speech

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This GPS is great for the looks, and the physical design is solid. But what's inside is more important than the physical design. I used a 2 year old Garmin before buying this one. I'd say 2 year old Garmin is much more better than the Sony. If the purpose of the GPS is to take you from point A to point B, it certainly does the job. But you cannot expect any kind of efficiency in terms route planning. You can get traffic updates, and every time there is a delay on your route, you hear "recalculating route" but not really. Since I am in LA, I can listen to 1070 & 790 AM, and do my own route planning based on the traffic conditions.

Conclusion: I am not a big Sony fan, but bought this just because of the brand name, and I regret. Get any Garmin and do yourself a favor.

Pros: price,great poi seaches,updates from sony

Cons: Documentation on use is bad.
Have to read detailed user guide and play with the unit to get to the advance
features.
Menus and interface could be better

Summary: I spent about two week looking for a good gps that would not break my bank and still have good features with technical support.
I bought a Mio 200, Magellan 4250- refurbished, and Navigon 2000s.I returned them all.
This Sony unit was the best purchase and had the latest maps and software available.
Bluetooth is the excellent. You can pair as many phones as you want and then select one for use. I still have not figure out how to work the gesture command- I will call Sony-no big deal.
Directions are great and it rerouting is fast (after I preformed a firmware update.)
POI search is the best that I have seen and gives the latest phone number on the screen to call from the gps.
If you like a gadget with a lot features this is for you.
Non technical persons could be overtake by all the functions but should be able to use the basics to get from point A to B
Not bad for $149.99.
I would recommend this device to all.

After an unsatisfying experience with the Sony NVU73T model I decided to try this one. This model has newer maps, is faster at processing your desired route and of course has a beautiful display, nice graphics and features not found on Garmin or Tom Tom products for the price I paid (a little over a hundred dollars for a new unit sold from Amazon). The text to speech works / sounds better than the entry level units from Garmin. The super suction cup mount is definitely sticky and well designed (although I have mine mounted to a Glisson bean bag mount for convenience). If you can live with short battery life (around 2 hours), no Macintosh support and maps from 2008 you might be pleasantly surprised by this unit.

Sony has issued what seems to be a great product until you dig into the details and find out they aren't supporting it with map updates.

I regret getting something that can't be updated.


10/2/2009 The Nav-U touch response is completely dead. This product lasted about a year.
Going back to standards rather than offbrands for GPS.

I love this GPS,easy to use,my hand free phone calls come out extra clear,using the Fm connection is fear,"not the best",any way this unit is great for the money.