 Good Sat Nav |
| Review Date: November 18, 2007 |
| Reviewer: I. Duncan, scotland |
| This Sat Nav looks the part and the functionality of it is excellent. The screen is big and bright. I would have given it 5/5 but for two reasons. To install and activate the speed camera data requires a masters I.T. degree!! You have to download it from Sony which is fair enough but to get it onto your sat nav takes ages and requires much patience. Also I assumed (wrongly) that because it featured real time traffic management I would just have to register the product and hey presto I'd be saying good bye to traffic congestion and road works for life - wrong - to get this feature you need to purchase another car cradle with antena which cost £50-£60. Had I known this I would have bought the NV-U92 which comes with said cradle and isn't £50 more expensive. The real time traffic management also costs £20 (for life) from SONY. In my opinion they should be suppying this info for free. Overall, a great Sat Nav, add on £80 to the cost if you want to set it up for traffic managment! |
Gets you there, what more can you ask?!
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| Review Date: August 13, 2007 |
| Reviewer: E. A. Moss, |
I bought this item today ready to take on holiday later in the week. I have tried it out today and found it really good. It is quick to find it's position and also very quick to adjust the route if you take a wrong turning.
The only slight criticism is that when you are planning a long route, you can't get it to tell you which route it is taking in words (eg. M25, M3, A27 etc) but it only shows you on a little map. You also can't programme it to avoid certain roads (eg. the M25!) which you can with the TomTom.
Otherwise it does everything you need, quickly and accurately, and the nice lady even remembers to say please :) |
East Meets West
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| Review Date: November 26, 2007 |
| Reviewer: James, UK |
A good device, I quite like it. But anyone else noticed that if you display compass directions (only available when not navigating) that East and West are the wrong way round?
Sony admit to the error, but say the fact the unit doesn't know its left from right shouldn't affect your navigating pleasure! |
Free safety-camera subscription is TOTALLY messy!
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| Review Date: January 15, 2008 |
| Reviewer: A. Naqvi, UK |
Free safety-camera subscription is TOTALLY messy and one can't figure out how to get it working on the device. That's been over three weeks that I bought it and the free subscription not working AT ALL. The sony website is a complete mess ... and you are just hitting a wall ... poorest ever user experience. Too frustrated ... seems like they are taking buyers for granted!
Giving this product a lower rating is lower just because of this. |
Sony NV-U82G Speed cameras will cost you a packet!
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| Review Date: October 25, 2007 |
| Reviewer: Helicopter Dave, Rutland Water, UK |
| Although I was pleased with the big display & directional functionality of this unit, it was advertised (Argos)as having 1 year's free safety-camera subscription. I followed guidance on Sony's web-site to download the appropriate data-file which began the subscription. Menu items illustrated in the online guide were missing. After going round in circles clicking buttons I looked at FAQs, one of which implied that this would only work if I paid a further £60 for a TMC equipped car-cradle. In fact all I had to do was run (double-click)the downloaded file with the Sony NV-U 82 connected to my PC and the phantom menus appeared. Nowhere in Sony's instructions was this put in simple English. I don't look forward to firmware updates or adding maps! |
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