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(More customer reviews)I am agree with the other reviews: The turn locations can be quite off and the street names can be off.
I have been testing it with my wife's Magellan I brought 3 months ago.
The Magellan and the Teletype Premium side by side had interesting results.
Even with the Teletype having 12 million POI, the Magellan showed me like 35 points of interest (in real time) by Disneyland, CA. The teletype unit showed me 1 gas station (in real time).
Both the Magellan & Teletype unit failed to find In N Out (Burger Restaurant) as a POI [point of interest] without me physically pulling my hair out for 1/2 hour toying with both of them. The problem was: In N Out is spelled In-N-Out. I can not believe both manufacturers could not think of programming their software to recognize names with and without hyphens connecting the words.
Teletype could not find the Street Name: N Glassell, in Orange CA automatically. While Magellan has an advanced feature to only highlight letters of streets as you type in the name of the street. As you keep typing, the Magellan does a process of elimination and displays a list of only the streets that are left, before you finish typing. This is a really blow you out the door feature!!!
The Magellan doesn't do text to speech, but the Magellan even tells me that I arrived at my destination and what side of the street my destination is on. The Teletype doens't tell me I arrived as good as the Magellan. I finally noticed today I get a flag on the screen on the Teletype Prem. Which is kind of self defeating. I want to hear the directions to my location with text to speech while not having to look at the screen.
I brought 2 Teletype Prem., hoping to give both as gifts to my family in CA. The one person is legally blind, but can see enough to ride his bike to work sometimes. I felt I could give this Teletype Prem. GPS unit to him and take some of the pressure off his wife. Now I am very nervous about giving him the unit.
I put in a call today 7/1/07 to Teletype GPS, hopefully they got a patch, for the devices or I may have to return them and lose 25% restocking fee.
Even though I do not want to return the units.
I kind of got the hang of all the neat features now. Hopefully we can rectify the problem tomorrow.
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The TeleType WorldNav 3100 Deluxe Portable GPS Navigator is a simple, stylish and user-friendly street navigator at a reasonable price. With the WorldNav 3100 Deluxe you get affordable, in-car navigation with the added benefits of easy touch-screen use, pre-loaded maps, as well as MP3 and video entertainment capabilities.
Driven by TeleType's award-winning GPS software, the WorldNav 3100 Deluxe accurately pinpoints your location at all times. This unit comes with complete, street-level maps for all 50 states in the U.S.A., including Puerto Rico, and provides you with both visual directions, and voice prompts that even pronounce street names, to guide you easily from your origin to your destination. This unit features a variety of settings that allow you to determine your optimal route based upon your needs, over 3-million POIs (points of interest), and automatic rerouting that adjusts your projected course when you miss a turn or change your mind on the fly.
The WorldNav 3100 lets you both view information, and control your navigator via its bright, Samsung 3.5-inch TFT LCD touch-screen display. This screen not only provides you with full-color mapping in either 2D or 3D modes, it also has a day and night mode that ensures you can see it clearly regardless of your lighting levels. What's more, the 3100 is compatible with digital MP3, picture and video formats so you can listen to your favorite tunes, as well as view your favorite pictures and videos all from one device.
TeleType's WorldNav 3100 uses a Samsung 300 MHz processor and runs on Microsoft's WinCE.Net 4.2 operating system. This unit includes a an SD/MMC card slot for map, music, video and picture storage, as well as a built-in speaker and a 3.5-millimeter stereo headphone jack for listening to your navigator or music without disturbing others. The 3100 uses a 20-channel SiRF III GPS chipset, and includes an external antenna jack for hooking up an external GPS antenna for use with larger vehicles such as buses, long-haul trucks and RVs. This unit connects to your PC via USB for data downloads, and runs on an internal, rechargeable lithium-ion battery with 2-4 hours of life depending upon screen brightness, and recharges via your vehicle's 12-volt power supply. The WorldNav 3100 weighs six ounces, measures 3.12 x 4.37 x 1 inches (W x H x D), and is backed by a manufacturer's limited one-year warranty.
What's in the Box TeleType WorldNav 3100 Deluxe GPS navigator, suction cup mount, USB sync cable, car power cable, user's manual, carrying case, quick guide and music transfer DVD.
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