Batteries Included: 1 Binding: Electronics Brand: Navman EAN: 0941977753332 Feature: Powerful in-car GPS navigator with 3D map view Is Autographed: 0 Is Memorabilia: 0 Label: Navman USA , Inc. Manufacturer: Navman USA , Inc. Model: ICN 635 Publisher: Navman USA , Inc. Special Features: Distance Studio: Navman USA , Inc.
Features
Powerful in-car GPS navigator with 3D map view 64 MB of internal memory; includes 128 MB Secure Digital memory card SmartST v3.0 3D navigation software and TeleAtlas North American map data 3.8-inch LCD monitor with 320 x 240 resolution and 65,000 colors Comes with windshield/dashboard mounting bracket and 12-volt vehicle adapter
Based on the award winning iCN 630, the new Navman iCN 635 is a first-class Drive-Away navigation system delivering awesome performance and functionality. This intuitive in-car GPS solution boasts the very latest Navman SmartST V3 navigation software.The iCN 635 is driven by the very latest Navman SmartST V3 navigation software giving you masses of features and boasts an awesome 3.8inch TFT screen delivering a highly detailed 3D map view. The iCN 635 also gives you clear turn-by-turn voice guidance, Back-On-Track rerouting, postcode search and the very latest map data.You also have a huge fully customizable Points-of-interest database where include your own petrol stations, restaurants, supermarkets and speed cameras. A new feature to SmartST V3 is 'Active POIs'. This function allows you to set an alarm to tell you when a particular POI is approaching and also allows you to navigate to your nearest one, e.g petrol station.
Spotlight customer reviews:
Customer Rating: Summary: More like Lostman 635 Comment: Avoid Navman like the plague or leprocy!! Nothing good to say about this unit. Slow to acquire satelite. Also slow to adjust if get off course (tells you to turn left at an intersection after you are already in a different lane) making it hopeless on downtown city streets. Not user-friendly (not touch-screen) - have to "type" everything in perfectly or you won't find addresses and POIs. Speaking of points-of-interest, this unit has very few, and no way to search for POIs other than knowing the exact name of what you want - ex: no way to find the closest petrol station... must know the exact name and location - yeah right. POI is one of the great features of using a SatNat and this one is useless. Choose any SatNav other than this one! Have used both Tom Tom and Garmin and both are far superior - better to give one of these a go instead of the Navman, particularly a Garmin Nuvi model. Customer Rating: Summary: Okay but Customer support lets this product down Comment: Okay product ,novelty wears off pretty fast (already got gps for boat),voice thing gets annoying but you can turn it off,easy to see where you going in 3D mode,would be good for courier ,taxi driver,but maps are expensive,i found it very hard to obtain power cable which makes this useless if it breaks (better keep a map in your car) and customer support lacking,don,t wish to reveal too much but all i can say is that in New Zealand they must be very under staffed. But service was friendly when i did finally hear from them. Customer Rating: Summary: By far the best. Comment: I dont know about Navman's customer service because i never had any problem with my unit after using it for more than a year now.
I travel a lot and I use it everyday. I would say: for the price, this is the best GPS. I've tried some other products such as Tomtom (touch screen creates glare, looks ugly too), Magellan (too bulky, i dont like the maps, higher price).
I notice people complain about wrong directions or poor maps, well it's true with any GPS. The problem with some users is that as soon as they turn-on their GPS, they turn-off their logic.
I like this one and have no plans of replacing it. Customer Rating: Summary: Broke twice in one week, had prior model for 3 years Comment: I have had an ICN630 for 3 years that worked flawlessly then broke. I was going on a trip and couldn't wait for two weeks to have the old model repaired so I bought a new ICN635 (current model). It worked well for one day. Four hours into the trip it failed. After trying many things and speaking with Navman they decided that it was the portable cord. They told me it was unavailable from anyone but them and that when they had a supply problem last year (2004) there was no other source. They sent a new cord. While I waited for the new cord I left the unit running on the 110 volt power source (not much good unless you have about a 50 mile long extension cord--I did so just to be sure that the unit itself was O.K.) I received the replacement cord, plugged the unit in and . . . . . . it ran for about 5 seconds and turned off. I tried this several times--first in a 2005 Mercedes then in a 2004 Cadillac--I suspect that the problem lies with Navman and not with the cars.
Navman support had suggested that I buy a 12 volt to 110 volt inverter from Radio Shack as a backup for their equipment cord--I guess that would be not unlike trailering a spare car in case your primary vehicle breaks down.
All of the above said, the Navman ICN630 was great while it worked and the ICN635 was even better. However, a navigation system that works sporadically or not at all is worse than none at all. On the bright side, when the ICN630 was working, I used it in my 2002 Mercedes S class instead of the factory installed system--simply, the Navman system covered much more territory than the factory installed system.
I'm hooked on GPS having used it for three years but can't recommend a product that fails (the old ICN630) or a product that fails right out-of-the-box (the new ICN635) and that continues to fail after receiving the "repair". At this point I'll have to look at Garmin or Magellan because who wants to be stranded again in Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Washington, D.C. as I was when this product failed. Customer Rating: Summary: Unreliable Comment: Navman has let me down in the following ways:
1. customer service - empty promises, idiot support, and get this one... this is the best... a few times i called and their customer support line couldn't recieve calls becouse the freaken mailbox was full. YEA! Get that!!??? Navman's customer support voice mailbox was filled. No calls allowed for abotu one week. Idiots!!!
The maps are bad too. GPS doesn't hold position well with cloud cover.
They could easily improve the company if they replaced all personnel (developers, customer sup[port, admins) with chimps. WOuld be a much better company then.
Bottom line.... do not buy from this dump of a company!
