Sony Nav-U NV-U92 review

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4.8

mediocre

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October 24, 2008

Posted by: evanstim

"A sad apology for a product"

What I like:

Style, soothing voice of unit

What I don't like:

Reliability, lack of Vista support, slow

Review:

Sony, Sony, Sony... how could you get this so wrong?

Where do I start... the unit lets me down whenever I need it most. It completely hates being turned on in a new location from where it was turned off. When you power it on afterwards, for example, when you get off a plane, it takes ages (up to 40 minutes!) to hook on to a satellite. This is not acceptable! I'm in a new country, sitting in a hire car, no idea where I'm going, and this stupid thing is just sitting there, teasing me, not finding any satellites.

The number of times it has let me down because of this...

The lack of Vista support is just astounding, as is the stonewalled response from Sony - they told me to locate an XP computer. This is NOT acceptable!

The unit also suffers from operating system problems - about once a week it crashes, telling me that the memory card has been removed (it hasn't). This means the system needs to be reset.... and you can guess this always happens when I am relying on it.

The TMC system on it is slow. It reports problems too late, and does not remove problems after I have passed them, so it still reports red alerts even though the route to my destination is clear. This is REALLY annoying, I have to keep going into the screen to see if it is reporting someting new.

Even when it does find something in your route, it's too hard to tell it to avoid the trouble spot. Why? Why isn't there a button you can press to say 'Avoid this incident'?!?!?!?

The "full" postcode search does not work. Too many missing post codes. Including my own home postcode!

The touchscreen is not the best - you press one button, it selects another. The way the 'keyboard' isn't a qwerty keyboard is just nuts.

POI is okay, but out of date. How do I update this? Oh, that's right. Sony won't support me because I have Vista.

Speed cameras - this is a good feature - but why doesn't it tell me what the limit is when it is telling me the speed? It knows my speed - when I am not in navigation mode it displays your speed - but when you are navigating it hides this. Why?!?!? It also reports cameras which are off piste, sometimes way of your route. Why?!?!?! Oh and the cameras are out of date, I need to upload an update. Oh that's right, Sony won't support Vista.

The maps are out of date. No downloadable updates. I have to fork out £70 to get a DVD sent to me. Probably which I can't update because I have Vista.

In short - DON'T buy this unit. It's expensive, unreliable and not fit for purpose.