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What people think about the Mio C520: (BETA!)
We compute this summary by analyzing 517 reviews from across the web.
price
5
- Don't purchase from Best Buy
- Typical cheap asian appoach
- Typical cheap asian appoach, mass manufacture lower the cost and dont even spend money to develop software, and once sell into market dont care about bug fix or decent support
- Price
- Price, Good looks, 4.3-inch LCD is beautiful to behold, Windscreen mount now much easier to use, Bluetooth hands-free, Text-to-speech can handle Aussie names
- Good features, Very good value for money
- good price (Myer selling for $339 in Brisbane)
- Top value for money
- Good price $450
- Price is excellent
- Clear Graphics and good Price
- Bluetooth handsfree at 1/2 the price
- Price was excellent
- especially the price
- Everything, especially the price
- Low Price
- Low Price, Lots of Customization, Good Detour Function
- Excellent Price
- Excellent Price, very readable display, accurate where I am in Central FL,
- great price
- Price, Usability
- Cheap & Cheap
- Clear Graphics and good Price
performance
2
- Slow route calculation
- Slow route calculation, Occasional mid-word pauses in speech, Illegal u-turn bug still present
- The software doesn't work properly and the processor is way too slow
- Route re-calculation is bit slow
- need to speed up
- Fast route recalculation
- Quick start up time
- speed warnings are generally accurate
- Quick satellite fix
- Relatively quick route (re)calculation
- slow recalculations
- audio warning for speed cameras is a little annoying
- If you're driving fast and within 100 metres distance estimation is often inaccurate
- Very slow to reroute
- u-turn bug and 40k speed limits
- Always shows a 40KM speed limit in School Zones
- occasional lag and stuttering
- occasional lag and stuttering, but rather minor
- Cannot edit Speed cams
- Red Light or Speed cam
- rerouting could be a tad faster @ times
- slow slow slow slow
- I've heard some say it's slow
- but I'm quite happy with the speed on my device
- I've heard some say it's slow, but I'm quite happy with the speed on my device
- Solid performance
- Fast sat sink
- Quick
LCD
5
- Screen too light
- Large 4.3-inch screen
- Super screen
- Great 4.3in widescreen with split-screen technology
- Split-screen navigation
- Split-screen navigation, good text-to-speech directions
- 4.3-inch LCD is beautiful to behold
- Nice big screen
- split-screen
- Screen size
- Nice screen
- Next 4 turns in advance - split screen
- Massive screen size
- Nice big on-screen buttons
- Auto night mode adjusts screen colours to reduce distraction
- Fast and great screen
- great split screen information
- Good screen size (not obtrusive
- Split screen navigation
- Split screen is senstational
- The 4.3 inch split screen is a beauty
- Big Screen
- Screen is good
- HUGE screen
- clearity of screen
- good electronic screen
- great magnification, stability, size, clearity of screen,good electronic screen, great battery life, a must have for long shots, a fast lens
- Screen Size, Bluetooth, TTS
- 4 inch screen
- Great Screen
- Very Accurate, Great Vocal Directions, Great Screen
- Screen Size and Clarity
- Screen Size and Clarity, Shape
- Split Screen
- crystal clear maps
- Good screen
- Screen size, Features
usability
5
- Slightly fiddly to use
- Too light to make a good fishing sinker and i can not think of any other suitable use for it
- No paper manual
- No hard copy of instruction manual
- May need to use it for a day or so to familiarise but thereafter it's easy
- ease of use
- Windscreen mount now much easier to use
- Nice big screen, easy to use
- easy to use
- Easy to remove from cradle
- I would have liked the unit to ask me if I want to use tolls everytime rather than one universal setting
- I have to get use to all the bells and whiseles
- Just a bit too big to put in your pocket, I have to get use to all the bells and whiseles
- actual maps application takes forever to load
- Horrid re-calculation loading time, army time only?, miles turn to yards too soon, speaker way too low, actual maps application takes forever to load
- Screen size, ease of use
- Bluetooth for use as a handsfree car kit
- Mounting bracket is easy to use
- Navigate great once learned how to use it
- Very easy to use
- easy accurate navigation
- The mount is fantastic and easy to use
- so easy to use and the screen is wow
- Clear maps, so easy to use and the screen is wow
- Easy to set routes and POIs
- First time GPS user is floored by how good and easy it is to use
- Usability
- easy to use with some reading of the manual
- Good screen, no problems with navigation, good POI's, easy to use with some reading of the manual
- Easy to use right out of the box
- The Sleek Design, Touch Screen Navigation, Easy to use right out of the box
- easy to use interface
- 4.3 widesreen, text to speech, bluetooth, easy to use interface, price
- easy to move around in different programs
- easy to program setup
maps
3
- Very difficult to find map downloads for other countries
- Position plotting on map inaccurate
- It sometimes tells you to "turn left then right" when your road running through an intersection is kinked
- (but blame sensis on this because it's their map software
- Cannot find maps for other parts of the world
- excellent maps
- free software and map updates
- smart look, split-screen, a lot of POIs, free software and map updates, good price (Myer selling for $339 in Brisbane)
- free map upgrades
- easy to read maps
- Insturction 2: Follow road for 500mts
- Sometimes my map starts to spin when I am stationary at the traffic lights
- Sometimes my map starts to spin when I am stationary at the traffic lights, but it rights itself once I start moving
- I think this seems to be a problem with a lot of the GPS's
- However, I think this seems to be a problem with a lot of the GPS's
- no free map updates
- Learning curve is steep when compared to other gps
- Map Update screws you
- poor maps
- poor maps, poor customer service
- inaccurate MAPS
- obsolete map
- Accurate mapping and GPS positioning
- Combination of map and voice is very helpful
- current maps and speedcams pre-loaded (just need to turn on
- Clear maps
- Nice Maps
- Automatically switches between day/night map colours
- map software
- price, ease of use, map software, media player
- 4/3 Display Pretty good Off Road maps
- Extensive list of POI's beat out every other GPS unit I tested
- Extensive list of POI's beat out every other GPS unit I tested, including Garmin, Magellan, and TomTom's top tier offerings
- detailed maps
- Details of map
- Details of map, response time, accuracy (in Texas anyway)
- Good map display, called turns at 1/2, 1/4mile and next st
interface
1.5
- Bluetooth phone interface connected, but didn't work with our test phone
- No hard copy user manual
- Ignore the user rating at this stage as I could not use the thing due to it crashing with the TTS firmware update
- no hardcopy user manual
- School zones stay on 40kph User manual is not good
- Huge array of user setable options
- Very user friendly
- Excellent image and user friendly
- user interface and build quality
- Great routing, impressive POI database, user interface and build quality
- Support line has a nice vmail:
- No accessories to be found easily beware, Support line has a nice vmail:
- poor user manual
- User interface buggy
- User interface buggy, totally counter-intuitive, obsolete map
screen
3.5
- no red lights display
- slow route calculation, 40km/ph school zone for 24/7, no red lights display, illegal u-turn
- NO TRAFFIC LIGHT DISPLAY
- When approaching exits the unit advises you to keep to the left but does not say that you take the exit
- THe unit assumes that if you are in the left lane you are bound to take the exit
- Display
- Display, ease of use, size, Bluetooth
- The Mio C520 GPS device offers a thin and sleek design with a spacious touch screen
- Clear mapping
- Nice looking unit, large clear screen
- In some cases the unit preempts the next direction even before you complete the previous instruction
- Have to plug in charger on bottom of unit
- Volume (Speakers are in the back of the unit)
- Washed out display in sun light
- Washed out display in sun light, poor user manual, quirky turning it on and off, time is only 24 hr format
- Great Device
- very readable display
- great visual presentation
- Automatic night/day display switchover
- Price, Size, Functionality, Customizability, Split Screen, Automatic night/day display switchover
- Bright display
- Split screen, Bright display, Nice mount
- Many pros better unit great form factor
- Big display
voice guidance
1.5
- Only one voice
- Cover, Postcode needs that space in between, Only one voice
- An Australian voice in TTS would be nice
- TTS voice robotic
- No voice message for Cams
- pleasant voice instructions
- Apprantly you need to use the US version - Samantha I think to get the voice to work, but mine did not and hence the back to shop to be fixed
- Text-To-Speach Voice
- 4 inch screen, 3D viewing, Text-To-Speach Voice, Night mode
- clear spoken voice
- No voice message for Cams, Red Light or Speed cam
- Voice clarity extremely poor and pronunciation of street names not very good
- One one text-to-speech voice
- Voice sometimes garbled
- Several functions not obvious, Voice sometimes garbled
- Voice instructions call out street names
- Voice instructions call out street names, Big display, Quick
appearance
5
- time is only 24 hr format
- smart look
- Lighter and sleek
- Very sleek
- Very sleek, many extras
- Shape
size
1.5
- No text-to-speech or bra size converter
- large carrying size
- Erratic updating, large carrying size
- You have to shutdown one programme to open another.There appears to be little variation between route settings.Will not remove specific address
- (everything else is not that big an issue
- size
- Countdown of distance before next turn is very useful
- big maps
- Large butons and letters
- Unprofessional after sales support with little knowledge of the product
lens
5
- The system also has text-to-speech functionality
- a fast lens
- Lens
battery
0.5
- battery life
- Some confusing menus, battery life
- Very poor battery life
- Battery life could be longer
- poor battery life
- great battery life
- Battery life is not great
- Battery is not swappable
- Battery is not swappable,
- Short battery life
- The battery last only 4 to 5 hours
zoom
5
- good optical zoom
- Small, good optical zoom
video
3
- grainy picture or video if resized
- A lot to offer for the price, music, video, hands free with compatible bluetooth phone
- Video & MP3 player, Picture viewer, Bluetooth and Navigation
product quality
0.5
- Hangs after finishing a bluetooth call
connectivity
3
- the Bluetooth and multimedia features are slightly limited in functionality
- In addition, the Bluetooth and multimedia features are slightly limited in functionality
- Bluetooth refuses to connect automatically to my phone and I have to manually do it every time
- bluetooth not the most reliable feature
- bluetooth not the most reliable feature, sometimes cut's in and out
- Bluetooth
- integrated Bluetooth
- The system also has text-to-speech functionality, integrated Bluetooth, and multimedia capabilities
- Bluetooth hands-free
- Bluetooth usually OK sometimes a bit quiet
- Bluetooth audibility is not that great
- Bluetooth does not work
- does not support 3.5mm headset
- Bluetooth is just Okay
- 2.5mm jack instead of 3.5mm
- Sub-par bluetooth with phones it will work with, no compatibility at all with many phones
- Bluetooth pairing is iffy
- Bluetooth doesn't work
- Bluetooth doesn't work, doesn't live up to own hype
- Bluetooth capability is very limited
- Extremely low bluetooth volume
- Extremely low bluetooth volume, inaccurate, poor support
- good bluetooth
- Bluetooth and POI
- Bluetooth hands free
- Bought it for $450 from JB Hi-Fi Chaddy
- TomTom One XL sells for about $480 with no bluetooth
- 4.3" widescreen, Bluetooth, detailed maps, lots of neat extras
- Bluetooth capability
- Bluetooth capability, style, function, promised features
resolution
5
- Much Higher Resolution map than all the others
- Nice looking, screen has a good resolution when showing pictures
glare
0.5
- no anti-glare
- Surround of device can cause unpleasant glare in bright sun
- Poor screen in bright daylight or sun glare
- Glare is possible because of shiny frame
shutter
0.5
- fatal errors shut the progam down
- Dash charger fiddly to connect, slow recalculations, fatal errors shut the progam down, occasional wrong directions
sound
0.5
- Difficult to adjust sound
design
5
- design
- Good looks
- after all disappointment can't thing of anything good looks perhaps but who cares when you cant find your way repeatetly get sent on to the wrong side of a highway
- Sleek design
- Sleek design, with pouch
- sleek design, easy to read maps
- Stylish
- Looks like a great unit
- The Sleek Design
reception
5
- doesn't have to be near windsceen to pickup signal
- Split screen with turn-by-turn all the way to destination just incase signal lost
- Picks up GPS signal very fast
- Very fast signal lock (it occasionally picks up signals inside my double brick house too
- GPS signal quality is very good
- GPS signal quality is very good, even in the heart of the city
- good GPS signal
image quality
0.5
- image stabilizer doesn't seem to work
- Apparent lack of quality
- image stabilization ineffective at times
portability
5
- Just a bit too big to put in your pocket
- good slim
- good bluetooth, good slim
- Slim light and Stylish
- Stylish, slim, portable, good screen, text to speech, bluetooth
- can be tucked into your pocket
- Lighter and sleek, can be tucked into your pocket
- light weight
- light weight, various sceen mode
- thin/compact
- Sleek design, thin/compact, clear spoken voice, crystal clear maps, great mount
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