Thread: AULRO Subscriber Offer - cheap on-road/off-road GPS units

Originally Posted by WhiteD3

They ARE called Shonkymaps after all, and free

fair call

I received on of these in the post yesterday DealExtreme: $107.00 6" LCD Windows CE 6.0 Core 500MHz GPS Navigator w/FM Transmitter + Built-in 4GB Memory USA Map to have a tinker with.

Quite a nice unit, very well presented. Lovely big, clear screen.

iGO8 worked pretty well, after updating the maps. Whilst you can't add extra icons on the menu (without some coding), you can link to "Favourites". I did this to enable opening up OziExporerCE, which worked OK.

The touch screen is ok, but not very accurate or sensitive. Even though I calibrated it, a quite a few times it was difficult selecting smaller buttons, especiaaly in Ozi. One thing I noticed, and didn't really like, was how small the menu bar and buttons appeared. The maps showed up full-screen though, and looked good on the 800x480 resolution.

The other issue was the lack of AV-in, meaning the inability to use a reversing camera. This was a deal-breaker for me, and hence I've already moved the unit on to a mate who mostly wante do use it on-road, for which it would be fine.

Anyway, thought I'd give a quick review for anyone looking at getting one. Not a bad unit at all, but didn't suit my needs.

So Ranga - would that model be ok for just running iGo and Ozi? That's all I need it for... already have rear camera-ready DVD head unit in dash.
Thanks, Rob.

Originally Posted by jonesy63

So Ranga - would that model be ok for just running iGo and Ozi? That's all I need it for... already have rear camera-ready DVD head unit in dash.
Thanks, Rob.

Should work fine, except I wasn't really happy with the screen sensitivity. Made it a bit hard to operate the menu in Ozi. Otherwise, very nice unit to look at, and nice, big screen.

LOL!
Hey Rangi,, am still waiting on that exact model from HK,, when they said 10-13 days AIR FREIGHT, they werent kidding, it was shipped on the 24th, but OZ post havent received it yet

None of your concerns should bother us,,

but!

will I be able to add a music loaded SD card and use the FM transmitter to play songs while using the GPS?

Originally Posted by Pedro_The_Swift

LOL!
Hey Ranga,, am still waiting on that exact model from HK,, when they said 10-13 days AIR FREIGHT, they werent kidding, it was shipped on the 24th, but OZ post havent received it yet

None of your concerns should bother us,,

but!

will I be able to add a music loaded SD card and use the FM transmitter to play songs while using the GPS?

They usually take around 2 weeks to ship, so I wouldn't worry too much yet.

You should have no problem playing music from an SD card via the transmitter. The only issue I've had is some models have a limit on how many songs they can queue up (~256 from memory).

Hi Ranga,
Since you did your great work on my GPS, I have gathered enough knowledge to add to the new menu page with a couple of new GPS applications I have aquired.
My problem is that I can't find the icon file to use on the menu page for NDrive, Navigon or Sygic applications. I have googled into many sites to find them without success.
I suppose I could use any old icon, but the authentic ones would be good just for looks.
Cheers,
Alan

Can anyone recommend a reasonably priced GPS unit which can be mounted within the hole where the factory GPS unit fits on a D3? (Kenwood is too expensive)

The 7" units are too big but it looks as though some of the 6 - 6.2" might fit reasonably snugly. The biggest problem seems to be that all those I have seen on ebay etc have the power input plug into the edge of the unit rather than from the back which would be best for a semi-permanent mounting. Also if the plug is on the edge it makes the unit as installed very much wider.

The Garmin 1490T (5") would fit easily and has rear power input but I would prefer a cheaper solution and bigger screen.

Any suggestions?