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Posts: 333 | Thanked: 7 times | Joined on Dec 2005
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Just got my navicore n800 kit yesterday. I didn't have any problem getting from Letstalk.com, they were quite fast in fact, no email, or confirmation problem whatsoever. Last time I bought a nokia communicator from them didn't have any problem either.

I am very impress with the maps, it even have my neighborhood even though the area is very new. GPS works well also.

There is a couple of areas that could be improved on though. POI search is awkward, can't display restaurant by catagory. Search is long, everytime I enter a field to search it starts the search without letting me fill in the other field to narrow down the search. Maybe I'm doing something wrong.

The N800 does not work too well in bright day light. They should have included some kind of hood in the kit. Also it would be nice if the adapter powers the GPS and the n800. Scrolling is not as smooth as I like it to be but acceptable. Should be able to drag and scroll maps like google maps, but on the n800 you can only use the pad to scroll.

Software lags behind about 1 seconds. I'm already at an intersection then it shows on the gps. Of course I'm just driving around my neighborhood, don't know how well it does on a freeway. Although, the software will tell you ahead of time what the next turn is.

Not as good as my car internal GPS, but to be fair I've never found a GPS that works as well as my in-car GPS and I've tried several of them that are much more than the navicore kit.

I've only tried out Sara voice, she seems pushy. If she was a girlfriend you might have to dump her.

Overall, it's pretty good. I'd give the product around 7.5 our of 10.
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