Comments on: Mio C520 review http://gpstracklog.com/2007/07/mio-digiwalker.html GPS reviews, news, tips and tricks Thu, 18 Mar 2010 00:05:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 By: Rich Owings http://gpstracklog.com/2007/07/mio-digiwalker.html#comment-29741 Rich Owings Mon, 26 Oct 2009 14:05:59 +0000 http://96.30.5.180/~gpstrac/2007/07/mio-c520-review.html#comment-29741 hehe, it is kinda buried isn't it? hehe, it is kinda buried isn’t it?

]]> By: Cristi http://gpstracklog.com/2007/07/mio-digiwalker.html#comment-29671 Cristi Sun, 25 Oct 2009 19:10:37 +0000 http://96.30.5.180/~gpstrac/2007/07/mio-c520-review.html#comment-29671 thank you very much for the tip with the hack for extracting gps log!!! save me a lot of time. a good ideea to promote that paragraph, not to hide it in "cons" zone, bottom of the article :-) stupid that they (mio) have a button for "export" on menu, but they hide this button: http://www.gpspassion.com/forumsen/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=87762 thank you very much for the tip with the hack for extracting gps log!!! save me a lot of time.

a good ideea to promote that paragraph, not to hide it in “cons” zone, bottom of the article :-)

stupid that they (mio) have a button for “export” on menu, but they hide this button:
http://www.gpspassion.com/forumsen/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=87762

]]> By: Ben Sampson http://gpstracklog.com/2007/07/mio-digiwalker.html#comment-1976 Ben Sampson Sat, 21 Jun 2008 15:53:18 +0000 http://96.30.5.180/~gpstrac/2007/07/mio-c520-review.html#comment-1976 I have both, a Mio C520 and a Garmin nuvi 750 both units have their pluses and minuses both do what they were built to do, navigate. I transport inmates for a living and was using mapquest to go to places that I have never been. But that got old quick, sometimes I would be on one side of the state having multible stops and would have trouble getting from point a to b to c. I got the Mio from Circuit City for 203.99, the unit was hidden inside the display case and was'nt even out on display. The salesman tried to talk me into buying a TomTom or a Garmin, the price was right with the Mio, Bluetooth,media player to play music and video and a picture viewer and the ability to change my routes by bypassing certain roads and a split screen that gives the user loads of info along with text to speech, the teleatlas map program is superb in my opinion, I got a Garmin for personal use and the Mio for work, the Mio has out performed the Garmin countless times from what forums I have read the navteq system was supposed to be the better of the two, the garmin took me out of my way several times on the fastest, and shortest route settings and the mio has taken me on routes that was even shorter then the short cuts that I know. The garmin has better sound quality,a fm transmitter,interchangable indicator icons the ability to download poi's from the internet, brighter screen and a user friendly interface and a MSN traffic and weather option that I thought would be nice for crusing the beltway. The Mio has only one text to speak voice comapaired to six for the garmin a low speaker volume and weak microphone for the bluetooth device, and a TMC traffic option that I cant find even on ebay, all in all both units have nearly the same features. Having been to all of maryland's county jails and prisons and courts in the twenty years of employment, I have quite a few miles under my belt, but over the last 5 years road patterns have changed so I cant take any chances when I travel that is why I got the Mio and use it for work and the garmin for personal travel. On a scale of 1-10 I give the Mio an 8 and the garmin a 6 because the garmin gave me a route that took me thru DC, WV, and PA to get to Garrett County Maryland, it is a state law that correctional officers can not take inmates across state lines and there is no way that I can change the route like I can with the Mio. The Mio may get some bad knocks in some reviews but not from me even with a 2007 map the Mio run circles around the garmin in routing, pound for pound feature for feature I recomend the Mio because my coworkers have high end Garmins and TomToms and are amazed to what my Mio is capable of doing for the price I paid. I have both, a Mio C520 and a Garmin nuvi 750 both units have their pluses and minuses both do what they were built to do, navigate. I transport inmates for a living and was using mapquest to go to places that I have never been. But that got old quick, sometimes I would be on one side of the state having multible stops and would have trouble getting from point a to b to c. I got the Mio from Circuit City for 203.99, the unit was hidden inside the display case and was’nt even out on display. The salesman tried to talk me into buying a TomTom or a Garmin, the price was right with the Mio, Bluetooth,media player to play music and video and a picture viewer and the ability to change my routes by bypassing certain roads and a split screen that gives the user loads of info along with text to speech, the teleatlas map program is superb in my opinion, I got a Garmin for personal use and the Mio for work, the Mio has out performed the Garmin countless times from what forums I have read the navteq system was supposed to be the better of the two, the garmin took me out of my way several times on the fastest, and shortest route settings and the mio has taken me on routes that was even shorter then the short cuts that I know. The garmin has better sound quality,a fm transmitter,interchangable indicator icons the ability to download poi’s from the internet, brighter screen and a user friendly interface and a MSN traffic and weather option that I thought would be nice for crusing the beltway. The Mio has only one text to speak voice comapaired to six for the garmin a low speaker volume and weak microphone for the bluetooth device, and a TMC traffic option that I cant find even on ebay, all in all both units have nearly the same features. Having been to all of maryland’s county jails and prisons and courts in the twenty years of employment, I have quite a few miles under my belt, but over the last 5 years road patterns have changed so I cant take any chances when I travel that is why I got the Mio and use it for work and the garmin for personal travel. On a scale of 1-10 I give the Mio an 8 and the garmin a 6 because the garmin gave me a route that took me thru DC, WV, and PA to get to Garrett County Maryland, it is a state law that correctional officers can not take inmates across state lines and there is no way that I can change the route like I can with the Mio. The Mio may get some bad knocks in some reviews but not from me even with a 2007 map the Mio run circles around the garmin in routing, pound for pound feature for feature I recomend the Mio because my coworkers have high end Garmins and TomToms and are amazed to what my Mio is capable of doing for the price I paid.

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