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Not very user friendly |
July-19-10 |
| Reviewer:
Anonymous person
from John in Thousand Oaks, CA
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had a Garmin Nuvi and like the options better than the NVE-P1. The feature I miss the most is when you are serching for points of interests while driving, the NVE-P1 does not let you know which direction each POI is. Unless you are familiar with the area, you don't know if you're driving to or away from the POI. Garmin shows an arrow letting you know if hte POI is on your way or not. Also Garmin scales closer when you are arriving at a turn or POI. The NVE-P1 allows you to change the map scale but does not allow automatic zooming. I like the NVE-P1 becasue it is integrated into my IVA-W505 and I don't have any loose wires I have to clean up every time I park.
Mine is asking for new maps which are not available from Alpine. It is a pain becasue the window that poops up is a little bigger and the "button" on the screen you need to push to get to the naviaiton page is mostly obscured by the physical edge of the screen.
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I wish I could give it no stars |
May-26-10 |
| Reviewer:
Christian
from VA
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- VERY SLOW to track GPS signal once it's started. All 6 of these I've owned take anywhere from 1 minute to 5 minutes until it's actually usable.
- Cannot multi-task: If I am backing up (backup cam) and haven't let the GPS track it's signal, it will almost ALWAYS lock up, requiring a reset. If I try to make a phone call before the GPS tracks, it will lock up.
- Completely out-of-date POI database. This unit only has 1.3GB of information. Mine was installed new in 2008, and the maps were at least 4 years old at best. My Garmin C330 from 2005 is 10x what this thing is. Alpine documentation says map updates are available online. This is FALSE! They've already abandoned this thing for the M-series and discontinued the navigation dock.
- System constantly locks up while trying to route, or just won't boot the GPS -- which means I lose my Bluetooth functionality also.
- Graphics are completely out-dated and very low resolution
- Voice sounds terrible, can't even dictate "take the next left," it will say "tak-kay the next left." Really? How does that get past QA?
I can't be any clearer: DO NOT BUY THE NVE-P1.
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April-26-10 |
| Reviewer:
brian
from littleton, co
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i currently have the nve-p1 dock with my iva-w203 and seriously this piece gives Alpine a bad rep. i love alpine products, but this is not one of them. voice guidance is choppy and hard to understand. bluetooth only pair with my phone half of the time, i have to do it manually half of the other time. when is Alpine releasing updates for their navigation units?????
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The NVE-P1 sounds like a geriatric female robot! |
January-21-10 |
| Reviewer:
Jason
from SLC Utah
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The voice guidance on the NVE-P1 is horrible! It sounds like a geriatric female robot. I feel this unit is totally substandard for Alpine. Alpine seriously need to provide an update for this model but I wouldn't hold my breath. When the new model comes out this one will be forgotten by Alpine as usual.
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Old, sub par database can't be updated. |
December-02-09 |
| Reviewer:
Anonymous person
from Charleston, SC
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If you are buying this unit for an in dash navigation unit look elsewhere. It's data base is lacking. No update capability as advertised. Bought in June09. Customer support stated update capability.will be available by end of the year. As of 1Dec09, still not available and customer support still does not have any idea when it will. (Wake up corporate, and start talking to your people). Does not have one big box hardware store in the large metropolitan area I live in. Does not have my housing area, 7 years old, Costco, 8 yrs old, etc. Not really sure what it does have. Voice direction sounds heavily digital and hard to understand. Voice direction just stops. Unit requres frequent resets. My $169 Garmin runs circles around this product in every aspect.
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