Heinoceros
Well-Known Member
Ok, i have had the unit installed for about 3 days, and its working as designed. The navigation is surprisingly good.
I especially like the "next 3 exits" feature when you are on the highway that makes it easy to see whats coming up on a road trip.
I am unhappy that there is no easy way to zoom in or zoom out on the map when you havent selected a destination or cursor position. you have some slight control by selecting whether you want it to be close in, normal, or further out in the map options, but while you are driving it will try to "smart zoom" based on size of road, upcoming turns, and speed. I hate that.
But my biggest problem with the unit is the fact that the screen is so glossy and relatively dim. Even with max backlight, in the daytime the glossy screen just gets overwhelmed by the reflections for me. And god forbid the sun is behind you. No screen does well with that, but this one just disappears.
the video playing on it is very hit or miss. certain codecs work ok, many are laggy. you just have to try it out and see.
it does feel like it is worth 300 bucks to me, but not a lot more. Basically it will keep me going until someone figures out a way to get a real radio installed in these cars. I feel for those guys, after seeing what the circuit board looks like behind the center console, you can imagine the engineers seeing that and just giving up. Its not just a few circuits, there are embedded 80 pin controllers on that board... super complicated looking.
I especially like the "next 3 exits" feature when you are on the highway that makes it easy to see whats coming up on a road trip.
I am unhappy that there is no easy way to zoom in or zoom out on the map when you havent selected a destination or cursor position. you have some slight control by selecting whether you want it to be close in, normal, or further out in the map options, but while you are driving it will try to "smart zoom" based on size of road, upcoming turns, and speed. I hate that.
But my biggest problem with the unit is the fact that the screen is so glossy and relatively dim. Even with max backlight, in the daytime the glossy screen just gets overwhelmed by the reflections for me. And god forbid the sun is behind you. No screen does well with that, but this one just disappears.
the video playing on it is very hit or miss. certain codecs work ok, many are laggy. you just have to try it out and see.
it does feel like it is worth 300 bucks to me, but not a lot more. Basically it will keep me going until someone figures out a way to get a real radio installed in these cars. I feel for those guys, after seeing what the circuit board looks like behind the center console, you can imagine the engineers seeing that and just giving up. Its not just a few circuits, there are embedded 80 pin controllers on that board... super complicated looking.
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