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| Navman iCN 520 Vehicle GPS Navigation System | 
 enlarge | Brand: Navman
Category: CE
List Price: $599.99
Buy New: $239.99
You Save: $360.00 (60%)
New (1) Used (4) from $115.00
Avg. Customer Rating:  16 reviews
Sales Rank: 30698
Media: Electronics
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Native Resolution: 320x240
Display Size: 3.5
Shipping Weight (lbs): 9999
Dimensions (in): 0.2 x 0.2 x 0.2
MPN: ICN520
Model: ICN520
UPC: 817186000034
EAN: 0817186000034
ASIN: B000B8AJ34
Availability: Usually ships in 4-5 business days
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| Customer Reviews:
 Great GPS for the price! August 16, 2006
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
I bought this baby for $300, it has all the info for
maps from Mexico to Alaska. Nice easy to read display.
The push button menu key sucks, everything else is great.
 Not as good as I thought August 13, 2006
I have owned this GPS for 2 month.
This GPS takes very long time to load and transfer maps from a CD. One hour to transfer 250 MB. total 2 GB of map data for North America.
Map are outdated.
Sometimes the voice instruction are confusing. The map on the screen showing that you should turn right, but the voice will tell you "keep left". I got into the wrong lane and missed the turn because of that.
The routing calculation algorithm is not smart. the computer does not know which road or street is less traffic nor quicker. Mostly, the GPS will show you the rout which has less turns and stay on the main road. Indeed, there is a short cut which is faster and shorter.
 My iCN 510 only work for 13 months. August 9, 2006
3 out of 8 found this review helpful
I spent $544 bought a Navman iCN 510 last year in June. It only works for about 13 months. The memory card stops working. I called the tech support; they told me that it passed one-year warranty. I have to spend $150+ to ship it back and get it repaired. I can't believe this thing can really find a good time to die! At least this company is good at making it's GPS last till the warranty passes.
Returned item after one week! August 5, 2006
11 out of 13 found this review helpful
After reading many glowing reviews of this product, I decided to take the plunge and order one. One week later it was repackaged in the box and shipped back. The unit has some nice features including quick route calculations, many POI's, and a nice touch pad. However the time it took to acquire a sat signal makes this thiing pretty much useless. My commute time from work to home is roughly 25 minutes, it took the 520 from the time I left the work parking lot to the time I pulled into my driveway before it got a sat fix.I thought to myself...you have got to be kidding. So I gave it another go, I punched in my favorite takeout restuarant on the POI menu and set that as my destination. I left my house, went to the restuarant, picked up my food, drove back home, and guess what...still no signal, and this was after a warm start. Another downside is the software is lacking many updated streets. Some streets in my subdivision have been around for 4-5 years, but they are not found on the software. Also, it takes a 2GB SD card to load all the NA CD's that are included with the bundle and transferring states to your SD card is painfully slow. It took about 15-25 mins to download each state to the card (roughly 20mb's for a avg sized state). If you do not want a GPS system that will give you aggrevation time and time ago, this is not the unit for you.
The coolest gps in the market. July 26, 2006
6 out of 9 found this review helpful
I have used so many gps receivers since 98 starting from Garmin 12 and Delorme Earthmate interfaced with laptops and pdas, and also with bluetooth gps receiver. Then I just got the Magellan roadmate 800 a month ago. That thing was cool but bulky. Got some info on net how to hack it and able to play divx, overclock from 300mhz to 500mhz. But when I saw the iCN 520 on sale for $199 with free shipping, I could not resist a good deal like that and I bought one...
Here is the list of features of iCN520 that i like:
Smaller and lighter with same screen size 3.5",
Zooming and scrolling over the map is faster.
Someone complained about glare, maybe, but I adjusted my map color to white background and I had no problem to see directions. The small speaker distorts and sound metalic but I can live with that.
I also found info how to hack it and I can use as pda without block recognizer, divx, mp3 player, scientific calculator,...
Overall I found iCN 520 a cute and useful gadget.
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