Aug 23, 2009
Sony NVU44 3.5-Inch Portable GPS Navigator with Text-to-Speech (Gun Metallic)
Amazon.comSony NVU44 Gun Metallic (September 2, 2008)Easily portable and offering power on-the-go navigation features, the Sony NV-U44 Portable GPS Navigator makes folding maps a thing of the past. First and foremost a portable navigation system, the NV-U44 offers Sony’s POSITION plus solution to difficult GPS reception conditions for navigation assistance even while under dense foliage or tall buildings. But it also features a photo viewer and Memory Stick Duo slot for uploading photo slideshows. Other features include pre-installed maps for North America, over 5 million points of interest (POIs) with quicker searching, an anti-glare 3.5-inch screen, Gesture commands to help you stay focused on the road, text-to-speech capabilities, and stylish black coloring. The NV-U44 portable navigation device features a brightly colorful 3.5-inch screen with gesture controls and text-to-speech capabilities to keep your focus on the road. GPS signals can easily be distorted by tall buildings, very dense foliage, or blocked altogether when underground, and when this happens a GPS device can easily give a false location. Sony’s POSITION plus feature is a unique, hardware-based solution that consists of an acceleration sensor, a pressure sensor and a gyro sensor that together can calculate the vehicle’s current position based on the last known GPS location. The result is a more consistent and accurate position that helps provide interruption-free guidance under the most difficult of GPS reception conditions. Enjoy powerful, portable navigation out of the box pre-loaded map content covering North America–Canada and all of the United States (including Alaska, Hawaii and Puerto Rico)–as well as over 5 million POIs. During (more…)
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2.0 out of 5 stars
Unfortunately it broke
The GPS was working well for a couple of weeks and I was happy enough. Then when I returned from a trip to VA, it stopped working.
2.0 out of 5 stars
cant find streets
unit will not find some streets by street names it decides that I need to know the county road number.
4.0 out of 5 stars
Not Bad At All, I Like It Better Than Magellan
This is my fifth GPS. Three of my previous ones (a TomTom One, a TomTom One XL and a Magellan Maestro) were stolen and the third was a Magellan Maestro that I thought was dead…
3.0 out of 5 stars
Good while it lasted
I enjoyed this GPS while it lasted. After 3 months of not-so-heavy use, it no longer picked up the satellites.
4.0 out of 5 stars
Not bad for the price
I just purchased this gps system for about 79.00 at SEARS. I had some running around to do today and I just pluged in all destinations and the little device was really accurate.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Great GPS For Price
Sony Nav-U 44 is extremely reliable GPS. I’ve been using this GPS for past month. It hasn’t misdirected me even once. It has very loud and clear instructions.
2.0 out of 5 stars
poor performance
I have purchased it as we have a second car after just moving to another state…boy i regret this purchase. In comparison to my Garmin 360 it’s like night and day.
5.0 out of 5 stars
GREAT GPS!
Im a first time GPS owner but I have had this little thing for a few months now and it is indispensable.
1.0 out of 5 stars
OLD MAP
I bought this GPS thinking it was coming with a SUPER SUCTION CUP mount which would not require a dashboard adhesive disk in order to mount it on the dash.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Great GPS
Pros: Text to Speech, Split Screen at intersections, Accuracy…. SONY
Cons: None so far
Having owned 2 TomTom Ones 2nd Editions that did not have Text to…