Late last week, Navman grabbed a heap of Aussie tech journos, threw us into cars and had us play around with their new MY series range of satnavs while we were driven around Sydney. During the brief hands-on time we had, I can happily say that the new range works.
There are four models in the new range. The entry-level MY30 featues a 3.5-inch 320×240 screen, while the MY50T, MY55T and MY500XT all have a 4.7-inch 480×272 widescreen. They all run the latest NAVTEQ maps, and all three of the widescreen models include SUNA traffic out of the box. The top-of-the-line MY500XT also features a capacitive touchscreen.
The menu system has gotten a bit of an overhaul from previous Navman range, and now features a really simple, large button touchscreen interface like its Garmin and TomTom brethren. But where they really hope to differentiate thmeselves is in POIs, thanks to partnerships with Lonely Planet and Wcities travel guides, as well as the ability to search Google and TrueLocal direct from the device through a Bluetooth GPRS connection.
Pricing for the range will be announced later this week, with the devices hitting shelves later this month.
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bob dickinson
Monday, June 29, 2009 at 2:44 PMHope they work better than the S150 model which is a complete dud
gee wilson
Sunday, August 2, 2009 at 3:43 AMnot user freindly long winded softwhere also bluetooth hands free is very limited will not conect to telstra brand phone’s. when “o” when are we going to stop being shafted in australia
Phil Bridge
Saturday, December 5, 2009 at 12:54 AMCurrent Navman: MY-55 4/10
Previous Navman: S50 5/10
I’ve got a MY-55, complete rubbish! DO NOT BUY A NAVMAN is the best thing I can recommend. I spent 30 minutes from New Zealand, speaking to a Philippines help desk; where I had to repeat some concepts 3-4 times. I reported that it has no power management (you must turn off manually); and in streets with more than say 8 intersecting streets it will not suggest what they are, you must guess them by letter, starting with A…Z!
So if you know the street you want is say off Upper Queen Street, Auckland Central; you tap that in, fine. You select INTERSECTING STREET and it should drop down a list of all intersecting streets (which it does if there are say 3) but it does not, so you are forced to press a letter for the first letter of the street you want, but you don’t know it till you see the name…dumb!
Also the voices are very poor compared to say a Tom Tom. And because it’s running crapola windows, when the voice is speaking it cannot do anything else, so if you are changing a setting for ANYTHING and it speaks then everything stops until it has finished speaking.
The sucker for the windshield continually drops off. The power cord passes in front of the bracked so you must disconnect the power cord every time you dismount it. At 4 months old my power cord is now half stuffed.
The plastic casing scratched VERY easily. When you don’t select a PIN code, it still displays SLEEP or LOCK when powering down, even though it does not actually LOCK (it sleeps either way without the PIN).
When you cannot be arsed switching off manually, it eventually runs out of battery with a warning, when you turn on the car you still have to clear that warning that it is out of power TWICE!
It has this sound (standard to previous range too) for speed alerts and camera’s, but it has this other strange sound, that randomly occurs and I have not been able to figure out what it relates too because nothing appears at the same time on the screen????
When it’s doing traffic alerts (I bought the TMC upgrade). It stalls when displaying them and usually will not let you scroll down to see your options!
Bluetooth hands-free – yeah right! I can speak better with my cellphone in my lap! One time on an urgent call I actually dismounted it from the windshield and held the Navman near my ear (I kid you not!). And the sending sound to radio is a gimmick, you cannot listen to any music on your stereo then; and hands-free gets worse with an induced delay (just when you thought it could not get worse….oh yeah it can!).
This NAVMAN replaced my previous S50, which used to bluescreen (reboot) 7-12 times a week after 2 software upgrades (I used to be an IT Admin for Ericsson so have a few clues)…I though it drove me nuts, but so does this one.
Help desk have informed me that all these things are just the way it is designed, there is no software upgrade, and they are not planning to release one. He also informed me that the replacement or money back warranty is 14 DAYS!!!!!!!!! He was not too concerned about New Zealand consumer guarantees laws and felt that the retailer should not help me either.
STAY WELL CLEAR OF NAVMAN is my only advice!
Steevie
Thursday, December 24, 2009 at 4:54 PMAgree with most of the above. Navman support is very lacking in New Zealand. As a basic unit to get you from A to B then it does the job. Just don’t expect any of the fancy extra features to be of any use whatsoever.