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| Lowrance 000-0125-03 iWay 250C 3.5-Inch Portable GPS Navigator and MP3 Player | 
 enlarge | Brand: Lowrance
Category: CE
List Price: $349.99
Buy New: $259.99
You Save: $90.00 (26%)
New (4) Used (3) from $89.99
Avg. Customer Rating:  80 reviews
Sales Rank: 15080
Media: Electronics
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: Yes
Native Resolution: 320 x 240
Display Size: 3.5
Includes MP3 Player: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 3 x 4 x 1
Warranty: 1 year warranty
MPN: Iway250c
Model: Iway250c
UPC: 042194528977
EAN: 0042194528977
ASIN: B000GSQDPM
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Customer Reviews:
 Avoid the Lowrance GPS units August 23, 2007
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
The first one we got didn't have all the necessary software installed, so we decided to give it another chance and exchanged it.
This is NOT a pull-out-of-the-box-and-use product. It's NOT user friendly at all. And even after reading the entire manual and supposedly setting up the GPS, it STILL didn't work correctly.
Do yourself a favor and spend the extra money to get one of the more well-known GPS units like Garmin or TomTom.
Ease your vacation travel Navigate instead of reading maps August 20, 2007
Purchase the iWay 250c for my 15 days vacation to Orlando and did not regret it. My options at the time was to rent a vehicle with a navigation system at a cost of $10.00 per day or buy one which I would not be able to use in my country ( I am from Trinidad W.I.). Then I came across iWay 250c with full-featured MP3 player and JPEG picture viewer which I could use after my vacation. The price I paid $189.00 verse the rental of $10.00 per day, I came out on top. Now I have a navigation system to use anytime I visit the U S and a mp3 player and picture viewer to listen to my music and show off my pictures at anytime.
The iWay 250c was on spot, except when we coming from Orlando airport to Kissimmee it told us to take Exit 64B, there is no Exit 64B only Exit 64 which we eventually took after it re-routed us back to exit 64. The other issue I had, it took long to find my current position, however I got over that by leaving it in standby mode instead of power off or switch it on long before we leave the hotel. The iWay 250c made life easy, we use the POIs or put in the address and we arrive at our destination, except when we were not listening to the turn-by-turn instructions and had to be re-routed. Great product and the price was right.
Worst product August 15, 2007
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
This surely is not a recommedable product among GPS devices. When I went to Sandy hook NJ from NYC. It took me around 10 minutes to find directions. Too slow. Don't buy cheap one if you don't want to regret.
 Lowrance iWay 250C August 12, 2007
Extremely easy to use right out of the box. I also discovered that it makes an off-road path to follow back out of woods, camping areas, etc. That was very helpful. Within days of using it I went to Cape Cod (more than 600 miles from my house.) It was perfect.
 It got me where i needed to go... From MA to SC August 8, 2007
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
I purchased the iway 250 about a week before i was taking a road trip to myrtle beach SC. I live in Massachusetts. I played with the iway for a few days before the trip. I am back home in Mass and survived to tell the tale. This is my review.
This is my first GPS. The iway is a fun toy. The car kit worked well. Stuck to the winshield and held and was easily transfered between cars. It also has great battery life. The iway isn't overly large. At times during the trip i would bring it with me into the hotel, etc. to do forward planning.
Lets start with the display/sounds/navigation. Changing views on the touch screen is easy. There is a 3d mode and two overview map modes. I liked the overview map the best as i could easily see the upcoming turns. A tap is all it takes to change the view. The Iway is loud enough to hear with the windows down or if you have tunes playing. Again this is also easily enough adjusted. This can be tricky to do with your finger. The volume adjust is on the touch screen and with average fingers it can be tricky to touch and slide the small on screen control. It is easily done with the sylus. The stylus is located on the left side of the unit which happened to come in contact with my dash and was difficult to remove during navigation. The menu is easily navigated even when in route with the touch of your finger. You can switch from the menus quickly and easily. One of my favorite menu options is a gauge page which estimates your time of arrival. On a long trip this was nice to have.
The bad. The Iways pre loaded addresses and points of interest are incredibly outdated. Driving through New Jersey at 2 am the gas light came on with no gas stations in site. I used the iway. I went to POI's and then gas stations. Great, the closest one is .14 miles away. The iway proceeds to take me miles away to the next exit and then loops me back around. The iway did not take into account at the next exit there would be closer gas stations. After finally finding this gas station it had clearly been out of business for years with weeds growing out of the spots where the gas pumps had been. I used the iway to look up other gas stations. I called the numbers on about 5-6 of them. No answering machines or answer. So i located the closest big name gas station. In route to it i spoted a gas station that was open that wasn't on the iways POI list. Thanks for the help.
Another instance i was going to Medievil Times restaurant in SC. It is located i presume on a company made road called fantasy way. I did a search... the iway couldn't find the road. I wasn't surprised as i figured it was probably the name of the road in some development. After finding my own way the road was labeled on the gps. I don't know why it couldn't find it by the search function.
In transit. The iway takes you in a straight shot route. If the highway you are on takes a relative turn it may have you take an exit to find a straigter route. On one occasion when the Iway told me to get off the highway i rebelled. The choice probably saved me a half an hour.
This GPS also does not account for traffic reports which i heard some can via advanced connections. I spend two hours in traffic at new yorks george washington bridge that could have been avoided if the iway had this feature.
Another example of the poi's being out of date. I did a search for dunkin donuts. It stated the closest was about 85 miles away. In reality there were 3-5 within 10 miles.
The iway will get you where you have to go. For me a the phone book from my hotel was important as i needed it for addresses as the places where i wanted to go weren't in the POI's. Apparently there is an option to update the maps but it costs 75 dollars. And if you are wondering if i updated the software via Iways website... it was the first thing i did when i took it out of the box so i cannot make comparisons.
The iway also occasionally takes long durations to find your location. This can be aggravating when you think it has found you and you start on your route only to realise it isn't directing you. If you are in a parking lot when it finds you and you go out the opposite side of the parking lot onto a different street which will connect you to the same road as the iway has you going, it will calculate your route over again to account for the road you are on. This can take minutes if you have a long trip planned.
I enjoyed having the iway but it has its flaws. I would buy it again, but there may be better options out there.
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