I don't think you can touch this feature set for the price, as I have seen this unit retail <$300.OziExplorer is raster navigation and mapping software for Windows. Nevertheless I find the other features useful. Volume controls are clunky and not accessible from within the mapping software, so it really does lend itself as you suggest to pure GPS applications. It's not a great handheld unit, but it suffices. Then when we want to walk around I just unplug and pop the unit off it's mount. I don't have, or like, headsets, so I use the bluetooth feature for hands-free phone calls. It's a nice setup because when I'm in the truck I can take advantage of the 520s high-capacity SD reader and play music off of the 4gig cards I have, piped through the head-unit with auto-mute on directional announcements (which I never use) and when a call comes in. Also led the audio cable around back there and connected to the aux connector of the OEM stereo head unit.
I mounted mine in the truck and connected the power to a block behind the dash. GPSPassion has a great Mio forum with lots of hacks, although the huge threads there are a little intimidating when you first start out. and make it easy to switch between MioMap and OziExplorer. But I can forgive any shortcomings now that I have OziExplorer running on it.Īctually I'm of the old school which believes a GPS should be a GPS and not a telephone or an iPod My next project will be redesigning the whole Mio interface to simplify things and get rid of the music player, phone, etc. I've been using a stylus with it though because the buttons are very close together on the touch screen. It's also the only GPS I've seen where you can just grab the map and drag it around in 3d view as though you were flying over it that's very cool. It zooms and scrolls really fast and I like the way you can choose the 3d viewing angle. But the hardware is very impressive, especially the graphics chip.
I agree with your comments about the Mio software, it is a little rough around the edges.
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