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The extra long car charger cord comes in handy as well. He claims that it could use a longer battery life & Mio is not currently offering map updates. Easy to use and idiot friendly. Couldn't have made a better birthday present for my husband as he frequently gets lost and forgets things like my birthday.
I haven't had any problems connecting it with my computer using windows vista, I use windows mobile device center (available on microsoft's website for free) to sync it with my computer. Another problem is with windows media player on it, sometimes it wont find all the songs on the sd card. This device also does not come with java preinstalled, so you will have to find software to be able to use any java software or games.
It even works with my stereo bluetooth headset. The gps part is ok, just wish you could get updated maps on it. Its not too bad of a product, the wireless card works great in it.
But if you have an internet connection you can use the gps with google maps through the pda part of the device. But once you learn the quirks the device has and how to deal with them, its a good product at a great price. One problem with it is that if it is left alone without turning it on, it won't turn on, and i have to plug it into the charger and reset it.
I dont know if its a problem with the device itself or the battery.
Built-in mic has very bad quality and I can't connect and re-direct sound stream to the bluetouth headset. Bigest advantage of PDA GPS - you can install software from different vendor.I tried to use Skype on this unit (WIFI). Very good GPS, plus fully functional PDA. Short battery life - if you are going to use WIFI or bluetouth its just 20-40 minuties.
Real time one touch to change map view to birdeye view, true North or direction. So one would expect to know the importance of performing "CTRL_ALT_DELETE" which is simplified by a reset button. My 06 Jeep's factory navigation (which is made by Alpine with Navtech) does not even come close with the amount of features.Useful features include graphical display that informs you Satelite signal, user selectable display on car speed, time, and destination distance etc. I would say give yourself 15 minutes to play thru the basic features. MIO P550 has a solid construction feel and MIO Map is EXCEPTIONAL.
IE works fine but finding a free hotspot is getting harder. If you need to use any of these software, Take your laptop with you. Because the operation system is Microsoft. Mobile PowerPoint, Excel & Word are actually useless. The map is so detailed, it even shows incoming lane and center island."My POI" feature allows user to set a large # of addresses limited only by the size of "disk" space. MIO map needs 6 MB to run; so one needs to know "how to operate" the OS a little. User selectable routing methods include shortest, fastest, by car or walking. When one closes a program, Windows DOES NOT close it; you have to go to system setting in order to terminate any Microsoft applications.
The smart zoom feature truely showcase user interface excellence. The Microsoft media player, as many Microsoft products, is not exactly stable and can take up a lot of memory. I have not tested SkyPE, so really can not say anything on phone call performance under 802.11G or B. You can view the entire route before doing any edit on the routing. One can also create groups for addresses by state, city or anything one wishes.
It stopped working when I used the GPS last month, and when I tried to restart it, it formated itself. Whenever I plug the charger in, it stops working.
I contacted the customer service of MIO, the agent let me try this and try that. After some days it recovers.
It's really a terrible PDA with so poor quality. Then this problem occurs again and again.
Now I still cannot use it.I asked for a return or a replacement, but they said no way. I bought it in November last year.
I had to restore the system and the map.
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