This is my first post so if I get it wrong let me know
I bought this last Friday and thought it was a good buy considering you get a $30 gift card as well. I was considering a Garmin but I liked this as it has live traffic and bluetooth connection
I live in Victoria so not sure about Brisbane but I have used a co-workers one of these in Melbourne and the live traffic helped out as I live in the country and hate driving in the city
I'm looking for a GPS too
cheapest MY55T on staticice was $275 (pick at Parramatta NSW or 14.8 delivered) not sure if thats with the free map updates
http://www.staticice.com.au/cgi-bin/search.cgi?q=Navman+MY55…
so good value
but the user reviews at cnet.com.au vary greatly (some good some very bad rating overall 5.9/10)
http://www.cnet.com.au/navman-my55t-339297143.htm#comment-li…
and people at whirlpool (posted mid 2009) give the MY55T alot of mixed reviews too: (but overall good comments)
http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/archive/1247770
http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/archive/1380591
http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/archive/1416921
http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/archive/1351158
http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/archive/1375270
has anyone purchased one of these? anyway recommendations/reviews/feedback? Thanks
The MY55T is the crappiest GPS I have ever owned. Not knocking the deal here (I paid $299 with 3 years maps around last xmas 2009).
I upgraded from a navman S80 only because the 2007 maps were getting out of date (Brisbane + Sydney were hopeless). In many ways while the old Navman was clunkier and older - it was actually better.
1) Tinny speaker which distorts so much in cold weather you can't hear the voice - WORST FLAW BY FAR
2) Slow as hell to update, ie. Don't try turning the thing on in the morning and entering a new address if you have changed locations since it was last on - it takes 30 seconds to find its new location, change from night mode to day mode and keeps you waiting the whole time just to enter a new address.
3) Some addresses simply can't be found, I work all around NSW / QLD and SA - I tried to find, Pacific Highway, Pymble NSW (a major place) last Thursday - couldn't be found. It came up with a huge list of suburbs but if you dont know the names of surrounding suburbs - you're stuffed. I had to refer to Google Maps on the iphone which was a bit of a joke.
4) The thing doesn't automatically switch off when the vehicle is stationary and 12v power cut. Even the old model knew when you turned the car off and powered down, coming back to life when you started the car. This thing has to be manually switched off - then what's worse is you have to confirm on the screen after you've switched it off.
Having said all of this I have enjoyed my 1st free map upgrade, which worked pretty well.
Live traffic works well but is pretty unreliable ie. Doesn't update you of everything, and spams out the updates during peak hour (do I really need to know the Sydney Harbour Tunnel is doing 25kmh at 4pm on a weekday in Sydney - I think that's assumed)
SPEND MORE AND GET SOMETHING BETTER
Can anyone advise me on what to upgrade to ???
Navman has consistently had poor reviews right around the world. Toxic seems to be the consensus although some people have been content.
IMHO, the choices are either Tom Tom or Garmin or, if you are a little technical, one of the cheap Chinese no-names from DX - http://www.dealextreme.com - or Ebay & so on, which seem to have pretty good reviews when using free software like Igo etc.
Personally, I use a Tom Tom which I bought because of it's reviews, rugged construction and large speaker - and it was on special. But when I have time I plan to get a Chinese 7" unit running Igo and tweak it as described in countless How-To's in GPS forums.
A great place for Q & As is here: http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum/83?g=169
Using this for the last 6 months and got to say it is pretty good. If you are coming from say a TomTom like me the interface is not that good but once you get used to it it is not bad, Also the 2010 map upgrade came out recently and that only made it better. Bluetooth is good. No media playback function though.
Oh - also the bluetooth works well BUT it changes the screen to a useless information screen (takes the map off the screen) so if you are talking on the phone using the bluetooth the mapping function is effectively disabled and you miss turn offs, exit ramps etc. You can use the on screen prompts to switch back to map mode, but the useless screen pops back up after a few seconds, plus who wants to be lost, talking on the phone, punching the screen and fiddling around like that just to keep the map constantly on the screen - Its all just too hard if you are a fussy demanding user…. pass on this model.
Not really you can still use the maps as you speak, you just have to select the map icon. It does not do it automatically.
Does live traffic work in Brisbane? And how is its usefulness?