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 Functionally fit, and informative. March 16, 2006
23 out of 24 found this review helpful
This GPS system works well, especially for those of us who have no proir knowledge to get to specific places.
If you have to punch in the address, there's a menu that you type up the city, the street, and the number, and it'll make a list of closest matches to where you need to go. You can also save destinations as favorites, or you can save your home address as "Home".
And directions are done quite well, i must say. When you have to get bare left/right to get into/off of a parkway/freeway, it tells you to do that, giving you enough time to do so. It'll tell you approximately when you need to turn and what to do immediatly afterwards (ex: "In 0.2 miles, turn right", or "turn right, then go straight"), and if you were to, say, miss your destination spot, or go in a different direction, it'll recoordinate new directions in a relatively speedy fashion.
Now, it also comes with a brightly-lit, and easy to access touch screen and a stylus that allow you to select items fast.
With all it's functionality, and blunt directions, there are a few small things about it that annoy me.
Firstly, if you have a lot of map data on your GPS, it will slow down its reaction time and how long it takes to load up directions, especially if you had set the map to show in 3D (I have mine always set in 2D, becuase you don't need to see a map in 3D to know where you're going, and it loads up faster in 2D, anyways)
Another thing is that the memory card given with th GPS (if yours comes with one) is relatively small in the data storage dept. (mine was 125 MB, if I remember), so you may need to buy a bigger one, especially if you want to travel some of the states (I bought a 1 GB Memory card for the Eastern Coast of the USA, and some of the Central part of it).
Also, the tiny, nonflexible D-pad on the lower right corner is a bit awkward, and a tad useless. selecting with it is easy, but you need to press the stiff center of the button, which may have you accidently move right and click, or move down and click. In short: Use the Stylus, religiously, for this GPS.
Apart from its minute quirks, the Navman iCN 520 GPS is a functional, and dependable piece of gadgetry that I will hold on to for quite some time.
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