- Navigate easily and swiftly to your destination with this WAAS-enabled GPS system that features preloaded maps of the United States and 2 million points of interest.
- * Preloaded base maps of the United States Up to 2 million points of interest guide you toward interesting and useful destinations.
- * Backlit 4.3" color LCD touch screen Easily navigate settings and functions day or night on the large, bright display.
- * WAAS-enabled GPS receiver Enhances performance in heavy cloud cover, wooded areas and canyons so you don't have to worry about losing the satellite link. WAAS is Wide Area Augmentation System.
- * Automatic rerouting
Product Description
Navigate easily and swiftly to your destination with this WAAS-enabled GPS system that features preloaded maps of the United States and 2 million points of interest.
What's Included
* Insignia® GPS
* DC charger
* Windshield mount and bracket
* Owner's manual
Product Features
* Preloaded base maps of the United States
Up to 2 million points of interest guide you toward interesting and useful destinations.
* Backlit 4.3" color LCD touch screen
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I bought the NS-NAV01 gps from bestbuy because the guy at the store told me I can download Mexico’s maps from NavTeq, but for my surprise NavTeq web pages doesn’t list this brand.
Navteq provides the maps and Insignia translates them to their devices, but they are not interested in providing maps for other countries, or giving a good support for their US maps. The answer from Insignia: “Our products are exclusively sold in the USA”. Yes, but they are made for traveling!
Rating: 1 / 5
This GPS is the biggest piece of junk I have seen try to pass itself off as a GPS. My Cadillac has built in navigation but when I travel I needed an inexpensive GPS to take with me in case I go to a place I don’t know.
In this case, my wife and I took this GPS and a 2.5 year old TomTom One (as a backup) with us to try out on a vacation to California. I actually bought this device at BestBuy, so I had to be quick about trying it out before I ran out of time to return it if it was no good.
The first sign that this device was junk was on the way out on I-10 Westbound heading from Arizona to California. This is the biggest freeway in the southwest and largely runs through the desert arriving in Los Angeles. While driving on I-10, five different things happened over a period of time without making a single adjustment to our course (such as getting off at an exit, etc):
1) The GPS would say we were in the oncoming lane of traffic but still heading in the correct direction. This would essentially shut down the GPS function and the destination mileage became 0ft and destination arrival time became 0min.
2) The GPS would say that we were on an access road or some desert dirt road, so it would say we had to make a U-Turn and get back on the interstate.
3) The GPS would change (without us making a course change) from showing us in the correct lane to driving in the middle of the desert with no roads around.
4) The GPS would re-calculate the route without us making a course change, and the re-calculation would take 5 minutes.
5) The GPS would essentially lock up and when you tried to do anything (hit menu, hit pan view, etc) it would pop up an error message saying we were driving in an HOV lane (of course there was no HOV lanes) and you had to reboot the device to get it working again.
Once we got to California (we went to San Diego first, then LA) it worked moderately well, but was slow in response. The location search feature was nice, but three times we did searches for restaurants in the area and the restaurant was closed down or it was the wrong information because either the phone number was disconnected or when we showed up there was nothing there or a sports bar had replaced an Iranian restaurant for example. On several other occasions we searched for things that we knew existed but even though our spelling was perfect it couldn’t find the location
Once we left San Diego we went to Universal Studios in Hollywood. We tried to input the directions two different ways: we searched for the location in the location search box on the device and found the address, and we manually inputted the address. In either case, the address was correct (we had also gotten the address from the internet at the hotel before we left the night before), and the GPS would say “calculating route”…when it was finished it simply put us back to the map screen as if we had chosen to drive around with no directions and just on map view.
The entire trip we essentially drove around with two GPS attached to the windshield – this piece of junk and a 2.5 year old TomTom One…the 2.5 year old TomTom outperformed the Insignia in every single facet. It was the only time we could count on things to be correct.
Do not buy this at any cost! Best Buy and other online sites often offer this product for 89 dollars or less, but don’t be suckered! Spend the extra 70-80 dollars on a device that works. If you want inaccurate directions and tons of frustration and to save a ton of money, just print out directions from the crappy website [...]. At least the only thing it will cost you is ink and paper instead of 100 dollars with tax/shipping.
Rating: 1 / 5