Garmin GPS 10 Deluxe with Bluetooth Technology
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Customer Review: GPS 10 Broke shortly after arriving & tech support busy
Summary: 1 Stars
I wanted a GPS to use on a road trip to Arizona and ordered a GPS 10 to use with a Dell Axim PDA. Got he GPS 10 at end of April and used a couple of times. It worked as advertised. On the road trip to Arizona I plugged it into the cigeratte lighter to charge the battery. The unit got so hot I could not hold it. After that the GPS 10 would not come back on.
I have been trying for 3 days to call Garmin tech support and it is almost always busy. I did get thru once after holding for 45 minutes. After listening to the menu I selected the Outdoor option and was on hold some more. Finally someone answered the phone, said I was in the wrong que, tried to transfer me but we got disconnected. Tried calling again and was busy.
Finally got on the web site and sent a message to tech support. After 36 hrs. I got a response that said send it back for repairs.
Recieved the new one and got the blue tooth to connect to my PDA (dell axim 51v) but it would not connect to the Garmin Que software. Another call to Garmin (busy, hold, disconnect, busy again) after a week or so finally got thru to Garmin. Seems I needed a new unlock code since I changed units and the software is linked to the GPS unit and they must match. Once you get them all connected it works. But the next time you want to use it you must delete the Bluetooth connection and go thru the Bluetooth setup again.
If you use it with Microsoft Streets the unit will connect and follow along with little effort. The only problem is that MS streets will only download a small area at a time to the PDA. But it does work if you stay in the small area or load another map set.
Bottom Line - I've had the system for 4 plus months and haven't got it to work properly in the whole time. Wasn't a good use of a couple hundred bucks
Customer Review: 50/50 on the software/hardware combination
Summary: 3 Stars
Advantage:
The GPS software is little hard to use because of all the features. But one you master it, the positive greater than the negative.
The battery does last for long time. At least you can use it for 12 hour of driving.
Disadvantage:
Non-removable battery.
Software can only use with GPS10 and GPS10 only
Whenever you run iQue as map only, it away search of GPS10 even when you don't want to use GPS10. Very annoying. Can find a way to turn it off until it timeout.
Customer Review: Works great - but steep learning curve
Summary: 4 Stars
I purchased the GPS10 to use with my HP2495 PDA. The GPS technology is great - and still borders on magic - but the setup and use of the Mapsource software that's included with the receiver is a little difficult (at least for a guy like me who hates to read the instructions). Once you get it all figured out and configured correctly, the system does work as advertised. I just completed a trip from OKC to Dallas and I located a half dozen addresses all around the DFW Metroplex with no problem. I would like to see some kind of a battery status indicator on the receiver but since I run mine off my car's power outlet all of the time I guess that it doesn't matter. Customer Review: Great if it ever ships
Summary: 1 Stars
I've been waiting for 3 weeks to get this item and EVERY WEEK it gets delayedby another week. I'm going elswhere for it. And you can count me as a lost Amazon customer FOREVER> Customer Review: Not too bad...but needs improvements.
Summary: 3 Stars
I recently bought this unit thinking that it was from Garmin and so had to be good. Unfortunately, it lacks many features and the accuracy isn't that good.
Software installation was quite straight forward. I didn't have any problems with this. Software went in the first time without issues. The map loading was somewhat tedious (trying to select all those "squares" for each regions that you want to offload to the pda). The whole north america map is about 1.5 gig. It took quite a while to load all of them up (which I believe is normal with all softwares) and it took a very very long time to split the map into 2 regions so that I can offload to my 2 1gig sd rams. I wish that they would have an option for selecting by States instead of JUST regions of a State at a time (like what they did for Canada).
The GPS hardware itself is alright. Nothing much to comment on. It comes with a 12DC car charger. The little RUBBER cover thingie to cover the power port gets lost so easily (in fact, I don't even know where mine is!). Awful design there! As for lasting 12 hours?? I am not quite too convinced about that.
The version that I currently have (v2.70) does NOT say the street names. It does NOT have the split screen features or 3d drawing as in other softwares. It tells you to keep LEFT at all major intersection when it wants you to go straight (while there is a left turning lane). <--- confused me a few times there!
On my last trip to Michigan from Toronto, it had me going on an inside road while the 401W (highway) was right below it. What was it thinking? I am not sure.
While I drive on the road, if I happen to turn off the pda (to save power), and then turning it back on, I would have to shut down the Garmin software before the satellite would pick up again. This must be a fault in the software. The bluetooth picked up fine, but it couldn't locate the satellites until I recycled the software.
Anyhow, I'll give this product a solid 3 as it needs quite a bit of improvements.
It did however, get me to my destination in the end. So at least I didn't get lost. HOURAY for that!
Tom
Toronto