Customer Reviews:
 What's wrong with you people? January 3, 2006
I have had my Navman PiN100 for a year now. I use it all the time. I don't know if the others live in rural areas but, here in Indianapolis, I even get GPS signal from inside my house. I love the Navman PiN100. It takes me everywhere I want to go, all the time (and I travel alot by car across country). I have read many reviews before making my selection (money was not an issue). According to many reviews, SmartST is better than Tom Tom. I just upgraded to SmartST V3 and the new features are incredible. The only downsize if any, is that updates are not free. It's $99 every year or so for the latest version of SmartST. In SmartSt V2 you cannot add stops, which you can with V3. Great improvment.
I strongly recommand Navman PiN100 over any other GPS now available.
Great unit overall December 16, 2005
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I have had this unit for almost a year and I am happy with it. It gives clear display and clear voice/written instruction. The unit is small, just like the size of a PDA. The initial GPS connection is slow (maybe 5 min?), but reconnection is quick and it rarely get lost. The software has problems sometimes, and I need to occassionally press the reset button to unfreeze the unit. I purchased another 256MB SD card to load all my commonly used maps (Northern and Southern California, Arizona, and Las Vegas, etc). There are still a lot of room for extra maps in this SD card. Since all the maps are saved "externally" to the memory card, resetting the GPS device will not erase the maps. Overall it's a good deal for the price. I am still very happy with it.
 Great Solution November 3, 2005
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
I gave it one star because I purchased it for the gps side of it and the software really disappoints.
I own a limo company and needed to supply my 6 drivers with gps sytems, so I did some research on line and found the Navman PiN 100 for 500.00 better than the 800.00 to 900.00 for the integrated ones...
Did some more research and found that Fry's had them refurbished for 250.00ea. I had read a lot of reviews for the Navman and I knew that the problem was the software not the Mitak Mio 168 hardware.
So I looked for other software options and found two, Copilot Live 5 and TomTom Navigator 5.
I decided to go with the TomTom software because I know somebody that has a TomTom GO and I liked the software.
So I ordered 1 Navman from Fry's and decided to try the software for my self, if I did not like it or if all the other reviews were tru I had a solution to it.
It really is a piece of garbagge (read all the other reviews)
nothing works and the main problem is the way to input addresses or the problem with it.
So here is what I did; I bought the Navmans from Fry's at 249.99ea, bought a copy of TomTom Navigator 5 for 149.99 and load it to all the Mio 168's.
I did not need to buy extra SD cards because on the TomTom the WA map is only 21MB so I erased the cards that came with the Navmans and viola.
It has been 3 weeks now and all of the drivers are very happy with the devices and happy because I saved a LOT of money.
Def does not deserve more than 1 star!! September 28, 2005
2 out of 10 found this review helpful
I do not recommend this product at all. sigh. It made me missed my job interview today!!! The SmartST map and nav software suck!! my interview was at 2pm today in Boston. I live in New York. I left my house 6 hours prior to my interview just in case sumthing might happened, which it did!!! At the beginning, i was using paper directions that i printed out from Yahoo, which completely sucks too. I would never use Yahoo maps anymore. I am going back with Mapquest!! Yahoo threw me off completely that I could get to I95 north by taking this highway, I didn't end up on I95 N but ended up in front of a state park. I approximately wasted 30 mins getting lost there. With nothing else I could rely on, I decided to trust Navpin to get me there for my job interview. the stupid thing kept telling to go in circles getting off and on the same section of the highway. it tells me to get off that highway, then go some local and get back on the same highway again, in circles and more circles. Also, it does not have the updates roads. I punched in my interview address. it says the address couldn't be recognized. the employer gave me the EXACT address too!! itz not like i was only entering a zip code and that's it, exact address!! it kept telliing me that Investors Way couldn't be found. then I punched in Norwood, MA. the pocket pc gave me stupid craps like "Norwood, MCD, MA" sigh. so I had to enter the closest intersection of the nearest two roads, and it still didnt work. Knowing that i would get to the interview place after 5pm, i had to call the lady that i was lost on the road for 2 hours and would like to reshedule my job interview. I am sure the company's not so happy about me cancelling the interview couples of hours before the interview b'cuz two managers was supposed to meet with me and now.... so yea, i am very disappointed and frustrated. Thanks to the pocket Pc now i lost my interview and the lady hasn't emailed me back about an alternate interview. =(
navman pin100 September 24, 2005
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I completely feel disappointed about this product. First it took at least 3 minute to locate GPS satellite. This product can direct you to the destination you selected and only to the street but not to the house number. Many time this product brought me 2miles off the house number. By the way, the address is not US format which made you feel very annoying to select right address. I recommand to return for refund if you can. I have sent questions to this company but got a strange reply.
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