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Sanyo Easy Street NVM 4070 Bluetooth 4 3 Inch Widescreen Portable GPS Navigator
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Sanyo Easy Street NVM 4070 Bluetooth 4 3 Inch Widescreen Portable GPS Navigator
From a recognized leader in navigation technology solutions, Sanyo’s Easy Street Portable Navigation Systems make using navigation simple. Easy Street offers the latest features and a user friendly interface to make your life on the go enjoyable and convenient.
User Ratings and Reviews
4 Stars Great value for money
I got this for $169.99 at Amazon. I have had it only for a week but used it extensively for a 4 day vacation.
Pros:
- Basic features work very well
- TTS is good. “Dr” was pronounced “drive” and not “doctor”
- Bluetooth worked without any problems.
- MP3 player also worked well
Cons:
- Sometimes takes a while to sync up to GPS singal
- Crashed a couple of times and required restart
Some people have mentioned having to set date everytime after a hard reset; but this is not required - once it syncs up to GPS signal, time is updated automatically.
FM transmitter worked very well in Hawaii where there a lot of unused FM frequencies. In the bay area there is lot of interference as there are no unused frequencies. For bay area 92.9 seems to be best.
Use this link to find the best frequencies: http://www.radio-locator.com/cgi-bin/vacant
Overall, great value for money and highly recommend.
1 Star Amazon Great, Sanyo?
Sanyo Easy Street 4070 GPS ‘will be’ a great GPS navigation system WHEN Sanyo gets their quality control working. I tried out the Sanyo 4050 about a year ago and loved it, but went for the Garmin 360 because it had Bluetooth and audible turn directions, speaking the name of the street (better than ‘turn right’, because your eyes don’t have to leave the road). It downloaded my cell phone book seamlessly. My son wound up with the Garmin 360 (Garmin has password protection. If it’s stolen, it’s useless to the perp).
Sanyo has now come out with the amazing 4070 Easy Street (or will be when Sanyo gets some quality control) with the perks that the 4050 did not have, so I ordered one from Amazon, which I received in record time - two days. Sadly the Sanyo 4070 failed out of the box. Audible turn directions did not work, it would not connect to my cell, and when I tried to type my street address, after two letters, it jumped to the street beginning with those two letters. I spent several hours trying to get it to work (Sanyo’s customer support seems to be non-existent). The phone # on their site led to dead ends and when I emailed the address on their site, I did not even receive the usual automated response. I sent it back to Amazon who sent me a replacement even before the first one reached them (what great customer service). Alas, I regret to report that the replacement was also defective. Audible turn directions did work in this one but the “Communication” mode failed, as did the first one. I didn’t even try the photo or music mode as they also were not ‘highlighted.’ Again, I repeatedly was unable to raise any response from Sanyo. This is amazing, since they have a great GPS, but hey, this old Marine needs support. Again, Amazon came through like the pros they are. I spoke with Steve and received the kind of customer service that you only dream about with many on line companies (or major brick and steel corporations). Without ’selling’ me, Steve answered all of my questions about the new Garmin 760 (It’s due to arrive tomorrow. I’ll review it later). Steve not only sold me the Garmin 760, but sold me several accessories which I would have regretted not getting later, as they did not come with the Garmin 760, especially the memory card for pictures of my grandchildren. Steve could not have been more helpful. As I said, he didn’t ’sell’ me, he ‘helped’ me. I suppose, if he had, I probably would not have purchased the Garmin right now, as it cost a little more than the Sanyo.
Semper Fi!
Signed, a faithful Amazon customer
3 Stars Great Navigation…Terrible Hands Free Device.
I bought this GPS unit because I have a Sanyo phone that uses the same navigation format and it is familiar to me. However, I needed the bluetooth capability more than the GPS to comply with CA driving law. The primary phone used with this device was a Samsung M520 and the call clarity was terrible on both ends. I thought routing the call through the car speakers would help and the FM tuner was decent. The problem was that I could not get any MP3 files to play on the unit and could not enjoy any music between calls. The call clarity with my Sanyo phone was much better, but it would often times not sync up and I would have to soft reset the Easy Street before it would finally sync. As a hands free device this unit is 1 star, but the navigation aspect was just what I expected and averages this rating out to 3 stars.
4 Stars Sanyo NVM 4070
Yea its a reliable product however, some of the features dont work quite as good. The fm-transmitter has pretty low quality, the battey probably lasts for 30 min with full charge. If the battery goes out, which always happens, u have to reset the time date etc. The good: maps, route,player, sd slot, and “re-route” in case u miss a turn.
2 Stars slow and non-intuitive
Briefly, this navigator is slow, is not intuitive to use, and frequently gave directions that were not only what one would normally drive but sometimes just wrong. It has a nice sized screen, and the non-navigator features are good. The traffic was also not accurate when I used it for a couple of weeks.
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