High Performance GPS Platform
3.5 TFT LCD Display with 65K Colors, QVGA 320X 240 Resolution
User Friendly on soft screen, touch screen with LED backlight, millions of points of interest, dat/night time setting for brightness
Multiple Navigation Mode-Pedestrian/Car/Motorcycle/Bicycle
Includes-windshield/dashboard suction mount, 12V cigarette lighter adapter Includes Hawaii/Alaska & Puerto Rico Maps on DVD
This review is from: Maxx Digital PN3000 Explorer I 3.5-Inch Portable GPS NavigatorI, too, was impressed by the price of this product. While I wasn't blessed with an $89 tag, $129 was far better than the $300+ the other big boys were asking. Not being at all familiar with the fancies of the more expensive models, I was thrilled for something simple.The product claims to have Alaska loaded onto the CD, and the sales guy at Office Depot assured me it was fairly simple to get it onto the little disk that inserts, but not so! It keeps telling me that there is not enough space. I've taken out everything but the english folder, and the two US maps, and even then, no room.I see now that I have to buy a far larger digital storage device and that $129 price tag is gonna cost me a bit. Let's hope that works!I also found it frustrating that there is no wall plug to charge it with, and that I can't find a way to change my "home" to my Texas address. It apparently thinks my world starts on Canal Street in New York.At any rate, it's not a bad deal for the money, but be aware that the more you pay, the more likely you are to get it ALL in one box....
This review is from: Maxx Digital PN3000 Explorer I 3.5-Inch Portable GPS NavigatorI got this gps at Office Depot. Upsides: I've tested it out on about 7 different trips (all of them I was familiar with already) I took in NY and can say the audible turns and what not it told me to take were nearly flawless. It only once told me to turn in the wrong direction (I assume it would've recalculated after the screwup if I headed where it told me to). I often purposefully deviated from the turns it told me to take on these trips and it always recalculated instantaneously. The map and tracking feature on the device are clear and well labeled. Mp3 player seems to work fine. Some downsides to this thing its slow loading into and throughout the navigation mode (where you enter where you want to go), it's pokey acquiring a gps signal after waking from sleep mode or initial boot up, no text to speech (meaning it won't actually say aloud the actual road name), but for this price I really can't complain there. The eBook reader only seems to read .txt files and it skips a line or two every time you scroll to the next page (an email to the company went unanswered on this issue). Other nuisances are the lack of a physical volume control on the gps itself and non-intuitive control to get to it within the software. As far as support for this device goes, I'm not feelin' too confident that I'll be getting much of it after looking at the manufacturer's owner's manual and quality of their website. That's the risk you get going cheap and with a little known brand, I guess. Getting updated maps or those in other regions (only the 48 states appear loaded on the included SD card) requires sending an email to an obscure email address listed in the literature. There's no option to download from their website. Another note: Although there is a usb jack on the thing, Windows XP was unable to find a driver for it (the manufacturer provides no drivers or apparently any instructions on how to use it with a PC). Therefore, in the end, the usb seems to charge the internal battery....
This review is from: Maxx Digital PN3000 Explorer I 3.5-Inch Portable GPS NavigatorI got this unit for cheap at Office Max as well. The original GPS software was decent, but on long trips it took a long time to recalculate your route if you changed the itinerary to take an alternate route. For example, if I wanted to avoid I-75 and told it to do so, it would just stay on the loading progress screen, get to about 98% done, and just freeze. Other than the software being bad at times it was a pretty good GPS for the money, yet I found a way to get around the software problem.Now, I hope I don't get flagged for this, but I owned a copy of Igo8 software from another GPS I own. I put that memory card into the Maxx Digital Explorer, renamed some files and folders, and VIOLA, awesome software without having to change any files inside the GPS itself. With the new program, the GPS works excellently.I was going to give it only 3 stars, but it gets and extra star for the ability to be hacked.(Send me a comment if you want the link)...
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