Sony NVU84 4.8-Inch Widescreen Portable GPS Navigator with Text-to-Speech

by Sony

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 7.6 x 6.2 x 4.6 inches ; 1.8 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 2 pounds
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B001EYU6N2
• Item model number: NVU84
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #148,508 in Electronics (See Top 100 in Electronics)

Product Description

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Manufacturer's Review (September 2, 2008)
With a widescreen 4.8-inch LCD touchscreen, the Sony NV-U84 Portable GPS Navigator makes folding maps a thing of the past. First and foremost a portable navigation system, the NV-U84 offers Sony's POSITION plus solution to difficult GPS reception conditions for navigation assistance even while under dense foliage or tall buildings. But it also features a photo viewer and Memory Stick Duo slot for uploading photo slideshows. Other features include pre-installed maps for North America, over 5 million points of interest (POIs) with quicker searching, Gesture commands to help you stay focused on the road, and text-to-speech capabilities.

The NV-U84 portable navigation device features a brightly colorful 4.8-inch screen with gesture controls and text-to-speech capabilities to keep your focus on the road.

GPS signals can easily be distorted by tall buildings, very dense foliage, or blocked altogether when underground, and when this happens a GPS device can easily give a false location. Sony's POSITION plus feature is a unique, hardware-based solution that consists of an acceleration sensor, a pressure sensor and a gyro sensor that together can calculate the vehicle's current position based on the last known GPS location. The result is a more consistent and accurate position that helps provide interruption-free guidance under the most difficult of GPS reception conditions.

Enjoy powerful, portable navigation out of the box pre-loaded map content covering North America--Canada and all of the United States (including Alaska, Hawaii and Puerto Rico)--as well as over 5 million POIs. During address searches, the device can automatically complete partial entries of states, cities and street names. The new Sony nav-u device also offers a revised search algorithm for quicker POI searches and the Quick Link search features that provides a one-touch search for your favorite POI. For example, you can save a favorite coffee shop destination to a Quick Link button and perform that search any number of times without having to retype the search string. Brand icons help users quickly and easily identify their favorite restaurants, hotels, gas stations, stores and other locations while traveling through unfamiliar cities. And this Sony nav-u unit now have 30 percent more brand icons than previous models (more than 150 brands).

Stable and secure while driving, the NV-U84 can be easily removed whenever you want to take it with you.

With the new Gesture Command feature, you can jump to commands with one touch on the display. For example, you can advance to the next picture in the photo viewer with a swipe of the finger from left to right across the screen. Commonly used commands such as "take me home" may be accessed by gesturing an inverted "V" on the screen versus paging through numerous menu screens. Other gesture commands include zoom in or out and call home.

Using the included Super Suction Cup, mounting the NV-U84 to either the dashboard, console, or windshield in virtually any vehicle is quick and easy. Stable and secure while driving, it can be easily removed whenever you want to take it with you.

Other features include:

• 4.8-inch anti-glare LCD touchscreen with 16:9 widescreen aspect ratio
• SiRF star III GPS receiver with POSITION plus
• TTS (Text to Speech): The device utilizes spoken commands ensuring you are able to follow the directions by street names.
• 3D Junction Guide: The device's dual view capability displays dynamic route information, in addition to the conventional map view, to provide an even clearer view of what's at the next turn or in a highway merge scenario, which junction to take.
• The new photo viewer feature turns the screen into a picture frame. You can view your digital images by inserting a Memory Stick into the Memory Stick Pro Duo slot.
• Battery life: Up to 2 hours
• Battery charging time: 3 hours when on, 1.5 hours in standby mode
• Dimensions: 5.9 x 3.4 x 0.8 inches
• Weight: 8.8 ounces

Nicely compact, the Sony NV-U84 provides excellent viewing of navigation while not blocking your view of the road.

What's in the Box
Sony NV-U84, car cradle, car battery adapter (XA-DC3), USB cable, quick start guide

Product Description

The Sony nav-u portable satellite navigation system is more than basic digital maps; it is the system that gets you where you need to go quickly and efficiently with intuitive features that help you along your journey. The latest Sony navigation system brings Photo Viewer to an already packed and helpful unit.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Buy a Garmin, October 17, 2008

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Paul Bailey (Houston, TX) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Sony NVU84 4.8-Inch Widescreen Portable GPS Navigator with Text-to-Speech (Electronics)

I purchased this to replace a Garmin c330. BIG mistake, I am a big fan of Sony products but they have a long way to go to match Garmin! My biggest complaint is when in map view this GPS doesn't show street names, some but very few. I like to use my GPS to explore and this is poor in that area. Also their is no trip history, it is also difficult to zoom in and out, I am going to sell this and buy a Garmin 255w

5.0 out of 5 stars Sony GPS NVU84, October 6, 2009

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John Osborne - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Sony NVU84 4.8-Inch Widescreen Portable GPS Navigator with Text-to-Speech (Electronics)

This is my first GPS and I am very satisfied with the Sony. The screen display is very clear and pleasing to the eye. The map information has been current for our travel. The cost for the map upgrade is rather expensive and hasn't been purchased as of yet.