Mio C720t Portable Car Navigation System
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Features: 2.0 Megapixel Digital Camera
TMC Support with Deluxe Device Holder Compatible with external Traffic Message Channel (TMC) receivers to display real time traffic incidents. TMC requires additional subscription charges.
Media Player Integrated media player for entertainment on the road. Easily store content on SD memory cards and enjoy photos, video or music when you're traveling.
Hands-Free Calling Connect your device with your Bluetooth-enabled mobile phone to make hands-free phone calls. By importing your contact list from Microsoft Outlook; making calls is as simple as selecting your contact from the list.
20-channel GPS Receiver The highly sensitive SiRFstarIII GPS receiver provides accurate navigation, even in challenging environments such as forests or large cities.
Editorial Reviews:
The C720 is a slim and sleek GPS car navigation system with a spacious 4.3" widescreen for viewing maps and driving instructions. Equipped with a built-in 2-Megapixel camera, the C720 features a handy business card scanner mode for easy importing of contact information and photo Geotagging for embedding of GPS coordinates into pictures files. The bright 4.3" widescreen provides navigation information even in difficult light conditions. Connect your device with your Bluetooth enabled mobile phone to make Handsfree phone calls. It lets you embed GPS coordinates into your picture files. Share photos with friends and let them locate the exact position of where it was taken through applications like Google Earth. The lightweight and slim design makes it easy to move from car to car, or carry in a bag. Avoid traffic jams with Traffic Message Channel (TMC). With support for TMC data broadcasts, real-time information about accidents, weather and more can be used for calculating smarter routes. 1300-mAh Battery Capacity 4.5 Hours Battery Life Bluetooth 2.0 USB 2.0 Speaker 2.5mm Earphone Jack Expandable Functionality with SD/MMC Memory Slot for additional maps and content Dimensions - Depth 0.8 x Width 5 x Height 3.2 (19.9x126x81mm) Weight - 190 grams (6.7 ounces)
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Customer Rating:
Summary: Terrible human interface
Comment: The Mio is doing it's job, but what a terrible GUI (Graphic user interface).
I own an iPhone, so I can tell you that they could have done a much better job on it, you have to learn each screen by hart or you will be lost, simple things like going back to a main menu or closing an application are never at the same place, and never at the same design, one time the close button is an "X" icon, and some times it's an arrow to the left, or to the top and so on...
Customer Rating:
Summary: very hyped GPS MIO 720t
Comment: the mio i purchased here for a very low price of 300, is awesome to look at, easy to do and enter everything but destination,,,,, MIO support is soo lame, it is the worst support of anyone,,,
maps are not updated, AND ARE NOT FREE, you must purchase maps, camera is 2 mpx, which is ok, but no price, good for what its for,,,
bluetooth was good, screen is bright, and at night, the night screen is bright,,dual screen is neat, but not helpful,,,,,,GPS is almost exact,, very very close ;;;;;;
i tried to get info from MIO, they were not helpful whatsoever,, their website is under construction and calling support is just as lame,,,, i went for the 300 dollar MIO, and forgot about service,,,,im not unhappy with this purchase,(price) but service/support from MIO, anything, anything would imporvoe it,, and to charge me for the map updates, how greedy are they,,,, the c520 and the garmin nuvi 660, were other choices,,,but for the money, mio was the deal,,,wrenchman55 at gmail
Customer Rating:
Summary: OK GPS let down by mapping, POIs, TMC
Comment: The Mio 720t is my second GPS. I'll review it in sections.
Hardware
The 720T is an attractive unit. It's easy to read from the wheel. Volume is good although not adjustable directly - it is either on or muted. This a flaw - you need directly adjustable volume to cope with times when you have the fan on high speed. Volume can be adjusted through master settings but this is inconvenient. There is a feature that varies volume with vehicle speed. The windscreen suction cup holds firmly and is easy to remove.
An unattractive feature the TMC antenna. Wherever you stick it it looks awful. Combined this with the power lead and you have an unappealing gaggle of wires. Not much you can do about it.
In its protective cover the unit is just trouser-pocket sized. Forget about your shirt pocket.
The on-screen buttons are small but unless you have Parkinson's or sausage fingers they are fine.
From 'off' it has a fair speed hardware boot but is slow to load MioMap. From standby it detects satellites reasonably quickly. From 'off' it takes a minute or more.
Software
The MioMap softer works satisfactorily and mostly gives good routing. Nothing beats local knowledge and occasionally it calculates a route you know could be bettered. When you're in unfamiliar territory it works fine. Despite having a master setting of 'no unmade roads' twice it has directed me down dirt roads, one little better than a fire trail (I turned back). To give the Mio the benefit of the doubt this might because the roads were incorrectly classified by Sensis (no surprises there). However with one of these routings even if it was a bitumen road it was a poor route.
You can import Outlook Contacts - a useful feature given the deficiencies in Australian POIs (see mapping).
I'm not much interested in the MP3 player, Bluetooth and other ancillary features and haven't tested them. A review on CNET refers to it having text-to-speech. It doesn't.
POI utility is poor. You have to specify where your POI is before you can search for it. You cannot search all included POIs directly. You can carry out a search for a POI around your destination, but if your destination is a POI outside the cursor or GPS position you're in a Catch 22 unless you know the 'settlement', as Mio terms it, as well. 'Settlement' translates as suburb. If you don't know what suburb your POI is in you're really stuck. The only way around this is to add across-town POIs that you are likely to want via Outlook Contacts. If I've misunderstood this or you know a way around the issue please add a comment.
Mapping
These comments are applicable only to Australia. The map database is supplied by Sensis (R14). It is adequate but has deficiencies that have been carried through from previous versions. As nearly all GPSs in Australia use Sensis mapping there's not a lot you can do about it - just learn the quirks and put up with it.
For example in R9 I reported the following glaring error (and if you're in Melbourne you'll sympathise) and this persists in R14: Heading north up Hoddle St to take the Eastern Freeway eastbound the system says, "Keep right in 800 metres", "Keep right in 300 metres", "Keep right in 150 metres". The Eastern Freeway on-ramp is on the left. If you keep right you've got no hope of making the turn. At 150 metres you're past a concrete traffic divider. Immediately after the "Keep right in 150 metres" it says, "Turn left in 80 metres". It's impossible.
POIs: Poor. I do a lot of travelling between major wedding venues. On a recent weekend five of the six I wanted couldn't be routed to because they are across town and I didn't know the address. A weird non-inclusion is The Cuckoo restaurant at Olinda - one of Melbourne's top tourist attractions. Fortunately I can add all these unsearchable POIs via Outlook Contacts. This is useless, course, if you're a visitor to a city or you've locked the house and are about to set out.
School zones are hard-coded as 40kmh so you get a speeding warning even when the normal speed limit applies. This is fair enough given the inconsistencies, strange rules and variable times that apply to school zones in Australia.
TMC
I bought the 720t because it has TMC. I was misled by Mio's website and POS advertising. The 720t doesn't have TMC; it is TMC-capable. I believed a subscription to TMC was included but it's not. The US Mio
website refers to a 90 day trial subscription. That's not available in Australia. In Australia TMC access costs an additional $129.
TMC information is neither timely nor accurate. It is a completely useless feature that I regret purchasing.
Frequently the MIO says 'TMC receiver not connected' when it is connected. This is a bug; it happens when you switch the unit on before placing in in the cradle. The solution is to switch the unit to standby and back on again while it is in the cradle.
Summary
A reasonable GPS let down (in Australia) by mapping problems and useless TMC. On current performance full retail price plus TMC is not good value for money.
With the benefit of hindsight I would be happier with a Garmin (my previous GPS was a Garmin) even though the issues with Sensis mapping would be the same.
I rate the hardware and software as a '4', POIs and TMC as '1' and mapping as '3'. As mapping and POIs are crucially important I'll give an overall rating of '2'.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Great GPS
Comment: I would like to say that no gps is perfect. I've had Magellan, Garmins,and now Mio,I think for the money the Mio gives you a lot of features, just the 11 million PIO is worth what pay for it. It is not as user friendly as some others but its not that difficult either . I dont like to compare whats bad with one and whats good with one but I think the Mio c720t is good enough to give it 5 stars . I think anytime you pay what they are asking for GPS you should get your moneys worth and I believe Mio has delivered .
Customer Rating:
Summary: Bad User Interface
Comment: I bought this unit because of its long list of features and the split screen navigation. Each separate feature worked OK, but did not share a similar look and feel. The touch screen buttons were small and difficult to use so you may actually be better off bringing along a stylus. My main issue with this unit is the user interface. I want a GPS that can play my podcasts and music while guiding me. I don't want the weak speaker built into the GPS competing with the car stereo. So for starters the headphone jack is 2.5 mm rather than the standard 3.5 mm which meant a trip to radio shack for an adapter so that I can use a cassette deck adapter or an fm transmitter. The dealbreaker for me was when I discovered that although you can start a playlist and then switch over to Mio Maps from the MP3 player you cannot switch back and choose a different song or playlist without exiting Mio Maps and thus ending navigation.
Interacting with the touchscreen was difficult with adult sized fingers and really called for a stylus. I decided to return this and pay a little more for usability. I will get either a Garmin Nuvi 750 or a Harmon Kardon GPS-810.
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Technical Details
Binding: ElectronicsBrand: Mio
Color: black
EAN: 0041881002424
Feature: 2.0 Megapixel Digital Camera
Is Autographed: 0
Is Memorabilia: 0
Label: Mio
Manufacturer: Mio
Model: C720t
Native Resolution: 480 x 272
Publisher: Mio
Studio: Mio
