Sanyo Easy Street NVM-4070 Bluetooth 4.3-Inch Widescreen Portable GPS Navigator

Sanyo NVM-4070 "Easy Street" Portable Navigation System, Piano Black We have had this item now for almost a month. It is feature rich, and the features really work. The special features of note are: - blue tooth - fm transmitter - plays mp3, wav, wma files (but not wma with DRM security) - real time traffic updates with automatic or manual re-routing It is very fast, re-routes quickly without announcing, "off route." You can generate route alternates by clicking three buttons from the map view for an alternate route. Address selection is easy. Creating Via's is easy. You can switch between functions relatively easily - there is a menu button. From there you can open other functions each with a soft menu button on the screen. Yes, you can control the music while you navigate, and it will lower the volume to give you directions. It will not give audio directions if you are in a phone call but the onscreen navigation will continue. Some features are mutually exclusive, but... more >>

I often rely on Amazon reviews before purchasing products, so here is our turn to contribute. We have owned & used this product for 6 months. We had read some good reviews of the product earlier & were motivated to purchase it for many of its features, including the traffic service. I liked that we did not have to purchase an extra antenna as it was already included. (the funny thing is that we haven't turned on the service yet....so can't comment on it) My husband is an actor with lots of auditions all over the place, so thought it would be helpful to have a navigation system (& it has been!). Also his greatest nightmare is getting stuck in traffic & being late for a performance (hence the desire for a traffic service). We had become accustomed to Hertz's Neverlost prior to buying this system & possibly would have stuck with that had I known the manufacturer (which is Magellan) I'll list some of the pros and cons that we have experienced and then I will comment on some of the... more >>

If you want to run the risk of no customer supports with your expensive GPS navigation system, you can simply go to buy a Sanyo NVM-4070. Any questions you have, you can call 1-800-421-5013, after waiting for over 30 minutes, you can get the answer like this "Sanyo doesn't provide any updated software for fixing these issues, you can just use it as is or return it to the store." It is very surprised why Sanyo did release such kind of product to the market even if they do not want to provide any technical supports ? The critical issue is that: there are only 3 so-called Voice Skins (English only): Female with Text To Speech (TTS), Female without TTS, Male without TTS. The fatal problem is that when you select the Female with TTS, the Volume is too low even if you set to the Maximum value. It is very hard to hear the prompts when you are driving on the way. There also have following minor issues: 1. Compass display is too small and too low. Especially when driving to East or South... more >>