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| Mio c230 3.5-Inch Portable GPS Navigator | 
 enlarge | Brand: Mio
Category: CE
List Price: $249.95
Buy New: $94.00
You Save: $155.95 (62%)
New (17) Used (5) from $94.00
Avg. Customer Rating:  115 reviews
Sales Rank: 1071
Color: gray
Media: Electronics
Tracks: Unknown
Native Resolution: 320 x 240
Display Size: 3.5
Includes MP3 Player: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.5
Dimensions (in): 3.5 x 0.9 x 3.3
MPN: C230
Model: C230
UPC: 841881002970
EAN: 0841881002970
ASIN: B000VZ3ADS
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Customer Reviews:
 Not Very Impressed August 1, 2008
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
I got this before a trip to Las Vegas. I had four address's to find, it located 1 out of 4. I think navigating by the stars would be more accurate. This thing can't even find my home address, it directs me six blocks away in town. I had a Niko GPS but broke the screen it was about the same price and 5 times the GPS. I got the Mio because of text to speech and that is good, but only for correct directions and that doesn't happen very often. Take a look at the Niko, you'll be smarter than me.
 All But Useless! July 30, 2008
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
I don't what some of these 5, 4 or even 3 star review people are using or where they are using them, but this thing is terrible!
It constantly shuts down and restarts in the middle of a trip, usually at the most complex point of the directions.
The directions it provides make no logical sense whatever. The Fastest setting is a joke. Google directions routinely save me 10 minutes per hour.
It has directed me to turn the wrong way on one-way streets, driven me into dead ends and wants me to turn where there is no street.
The time feature doesn't work. It is four hours ahead of my time zone in the Synch mode. If I manually set the time, the map color scheme still turns from day to night and back by the GPS time- not what I have configured.
The spoken directions are annoying, repeating a turn constantly.
Once I arrive at my destination, the unit does not know it. It even says "You have arrived at your destination." But then when I get back in the car and drive away, it recalculates my new position and keeps directing me back to the destination. I have to go in and manually delete the route.
When driving in complex areas (an interchange with many options for example) it has no idea where you are and if you miss the option you should have selected you may as well pull over to the side of the road to wait for it to recalculate. Otherwise by the time it does give you new directions, you will have missed the next option and it has to recalculate AGAIN.
It commonly has me turn off a main road and then directs me back on to the same road a block or two further on.
Don't buy this!
 Love it! July 27, 2008
I have only had my Mio for a few days but I am quickly learning how to use it. It is my first GPS experience and I love it. The only negative I can see is that updates are not available and some new addresses are not coming up.
It should be good, but I am not sure. I bought it for a gift June 23, 2008
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
It should be good, but I am not sure. I bought it for a gift
Mio c230 GPS June 16, 2008
I received this GPS as a gift. Having never owned a GPS device before my wife didn't want to break-the-bank with an initial purchase into this market. On the whole, this is a pretty decent device. It can be difficult to navigate thru the menus while you're on the road and the battery life isn't all that great either, but it got me to where I needed to go and for the price ... it's a really good deal.
So why did I give it a rating of only 2-stars ??? It's because of the lack of customer support. There's a glitch in the software. When the powers that be in the U.S. Gevernment changed the Day-light savings times the Mio software wasn't able to handle this. I didn't notice this until well after the device was purchased because I received it in January.
I've contacted Mio about this and have been told that they are aware of the problem. I asked if there was a "fix" that would be available, I was told there would be a fix but that they didn't know when it would be available.
And when I did speak with the Mio CS, they made it seem like I was being bothersome asking about when an update would be made available.
So I have a unit that has a software problem and you would think that it would be a fairly easy update but the company just doesn't know when the update will be available to its customers.
Bottom line, Good device ... Bad customer service.
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