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Usually ships in 1-2 business days | | Only 1 left in stock, order soon! | | | | | | Travel with confidence. The widescreen 4.3" touch-panel display of the nav-u portable navigation system provides turn-by-turn directions to where you want to. Traveling to your favorite destinations has never been this easy. The nav-u portable satellite navigation system has a sleek, 4.3" touch-panel widescreen display and can be easily mounted in almost any vehicle. The brilliant, high-contrast full-color graphical interface is also intuitive and fun to use. Whether it's a trip across town or cross-country road trip, the nav-u satellite navigation system makes the perfect travel companion. The NV-U73T comes pre-loaded with Map Content covering the entire United States, Canada, and Puerto Rico. Enjoy powerful, portable navigation out of the box! With a touch-screen comes control via simple, on-screen finger movements. Commonly used commands such as ‘take me home’ may be accessed by gesturing an inverted ‘V’ on the screen versus paging through numerous menu screens. Step away from standard GPS mapping and towards a more complete navigation solution. Real Time Traffic Information radio reception allows the NV-U73T to constantly monitor relevant traffic conditions and automatically re-route you around trouble spots! Dual View capability displays dynamic route information, in addition to the conventional map view, to provide an even clearer view of what’s around the bend or in a highway merge scenario, which Junction to take. TTS (Text to Speech) also eliminates second-guessing when making a turn; the device utilizes spoken commands ensuring you are able to follow the directions by street names. | | | |
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| | Product Details | | Product Length: | 0.8 inches | | Product Width: | 5.2 inches | | Product Height: | 3.1 inches | | Product Weight: | 0.46 pounds | | Package Length: | 7.6 inches | | Package Width: | 6.3 inches | | Package Height: | 5.0 inches | | Package Weight: | 1.8 pounds | | Average Customer Rating: |  based on 94 reviews |
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| | Features | 4.3" Anti-glare/Anti-fingerprint Touchscreen DisplaySuper Suction CupGesture CommandDual-View-3D Junction GuidePre-installed Maps of US, Canada, and Puerto Rico with Nearly 5 Million Points of Interest
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| | Customer Reviews | Average Customer Review: ( 94 customer reviews )
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126 of 131 found the following review helpful:
 Good concept, BAD implementation Jun 11, 2008
By Kavin G. Shah
"shahkg"
So I am in the market to get a GPS unit for my car, so after reading some mixed reviews about the Sony NV-U73 I decided to try it out for myself. Now I am a Sony fanboy so I was hoping that this product would do very well for me, especially since it was on sale at the local Radio Shack.
Let me start with the good:
1. Beautiful display, bright with lots of contrast.
2. POI's come up on the GPS as their logo...ie If I was driving past a Citgo, the Citgo logo was displayed on the GPS...very cool.
3. The unit will tell you which lane to be in for complicated exits/turns on the highway. When you approach an exit, it goes split screen and shows you which lane you should be in to take the exit.
4. Fairly accurate to tell you when turns are approaching.
5. Displays your speed.
6. Mount is very stick and can move in 360 degrees.
Now the cons:
1. SLOOOOOOOOOOOOWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW...slow to pick up a signal, super slow to re-calculate a route, and tooth-numbing slow to calculate an initial route.
2. It can't handle hypens, ie if a house number is 28-44, your out of luck cause it can't find that.
3. Minor gripe, but the RDS antenna is not built in.
4. Takes forever to search POI's by name.
5. Mapping alogrithem is good, but not the best out there.
So, if this unit wasn't so slow it would be great. But it was taking about 3-4 minutes to acquire the GPS satellites, and another 2-3 minutes to calculate routes. Not helpful if you're in an unfamiliar location.
There are better units out there for the same price. Get one of those.
58 of 62 found the following review helpful:
Looks can be deceiving Jun 10, 2008
By Thatcher
I had been leaning towards a Garmin nuvi when I first read about this unit, and after doing some research decided to give it a try. I must say that I really liked it for the first few days when I was playing with all the gimmicks that I haven't used before (my friend has a nuvi 350) like the split screen and touch-gestures.
However, once that wore off, the 73T really boils down to a pretty aggravating piece of equipment. The frequent errors I experienced finding Points of Interest around town aside, it did an absolutely horrendous job on a 2 hour trip that I take almost every weekend. There are basically 2 ways to get there: One that follows the same route 7 through a ton of little towns (the slow way), and a faster path which takes two different roads (22A and 4 for those of you keeping track) to do the same thing.
I will start by saying that the nuvi 350 opts for the faster way to begin with. The Sony on the other hand, spent the entire 20 miles of route 4 telling me to take every exit and turn around so that I could take route 7. Then, when I had finally made it to 22A, it started recalculating ways to merge with 7 again instead of simply following the direct shot to my destination. I had to enter about 5 different "interim destinations" along the way before it would finally let me take 22A in peace (with an ETA 20 minutes sooner than the route it wanted to take).
Short story: I made a wide variety of trips with this GPS while I had it (I returned it today and will be purchasing a nuvi 260W) and more often than not, I found myself ignoring the directions because there is a decidedly faster route that it simply refused to calculate. It has some nice features, but nothing extraordinary. The bottom line is that when I end up driving somewhere that I am not familiar with, I know there are other units out there that will do a much better job picking the best route to take which is what I look for in a navigation device.
62 of 70 found the following review helpful:
 A great little GPS! Mar 04, 2008
By CeeTee
I have been an avid user of Sony electronics for many years now. I was in the market for a GPS and like most people I was looking into buying a Garmin. However, when I saw the U73T in my local Sony Style store I figured I would give it a try. I have been using the unit for a few days now and I have not been disappointed. I live in New York City which is a convoluted maze of roads and highways. The unit makes a satellite connection very quickly which is impressive when you consider that I live in New York City surrounded by hundreds of buildings. Voice guidance is loud and easy to understand (So far I have not heard it mispronounce a street name). The U73T has consistently provided routes for me that were short and sweet. I have not suffered a system crash in several days of use and so far the unit seems very stable. The graphics are a little on the simple side but this is made up for by the awesome 3D split screen function. This feature was a big help to me when I found myself driving on an unfamiliar highway. It even tells you what lane you should be in before an important turn. The touch screen is responsive and easy to use. I had no problems teaching myself the interface and being that this is my first GPS, that's saying something! You can tell that a great deal of forethought and effort went into developing this product. Easy access to POI locations and an easy to use finger gesture command system make this GPS a helpful, easy to use driving companion. Rerouting is also fast and accurate. So far I am very happy with my purchase. I have seen my friends Garmin 350 in action and as far as I am concerned I think this is a better unit (I don't think the Garmin has 3D split screen). If you are looking for an alternative to Garmin I highly recommend the U73T.
Low Points:
1. Poor battery life: Full charge only last about an hour and 15min.
2. The touch screen can be a bit unresponsive at times.
3. Unit cannot locate certain addresses, I'm hoping a firmware update will fix this problem.
50 of 57 found the following review helpful:
 Beautiful sophisticated looking but pricey for what it does. Mar 12, 2008
By Martin
"apartoflife"
I am a loyal Sony fan many would say to a fault. Just about every electronic I own is Sony except for my Ipod. Sorry walkman but thats the one thing I can't compromise on. Anyway, I had a small tom tom I bought when sony was not making any new GPS devices. I had thought Sony quit making them like there traditional desktop PC's and monitors. The tom tom was 160 bucks on special, came with bluetooth and was one of the easiest gadgets I have ever used. Never looked at the manual.
Once this little unit popped up, I could't help it and made an impulse buy. At 300 bucks it's pricey but believe it or not, a bargin for Sony. The unit is beautiful looking with a wide panel display and the maps have a sophisticated look to them compared to tom tom's cartoonish maps and plastic toy looking body. Even the menu looks sophisticated. This is what I love about Sony. Since Sony is not known for GPS units I was nervous about how it would perform.
The unit has performed surprisingly well thus far. The maps are fairly accurate with addresses but the signal takes slightly longer to connect than with the tom tom. Also, the tom tom is slightly more responsive to touch and the turn by turn direction voice is slightly smoother than sony's. These are minor gripes as the differences are very hard to notice. A neat feature the Sony has is it actually has brand logos of gas stations instead of the usual general gas can logo. This helps if you have a gas card to a certain brand which I do. Another neat feature is the automatic night mode. I don't know if it senses less light or goes by time, but it seems to turn the map into night mode at the right times. The only thing missing in this unit is the blutooth which is in the more expensive model. This is ridicoluous since my tom tom has blutooth and was half as expensive as this model. Luckily, I never use this feature. Basically Sony goes toe to toe with any GPS unit and has some little extra features except for blutooth.
One big gripe is Sony's continued absence of intruction manuals and reliance on their website to obtain these. I hate that. Unfortunately I did needed the manual unlike the tom tom as I was trying to familiarize myself with dual view feature which I could not figure out on my own. Tom Tom is awesome in this respect as it is super simple to use and no manual is needed. Of course Sony's infamous proprietary memory card is the only expansion memory slot on this unit which is another thing I hate about Sony but much like Mac's, they love make things complicated by keeping their technology proprietary and closed.
Here is the bottom line: If you are Sony fan, like brand names, like beautiful sophisticated looking gadgets and have the money... This unit is for you!
If you're like any NORMAL person looking for an inexpensive GPS unit that does the job well and simple, tom tom is for you. (Sorry Sony)
17 of 18 found the following review helpful:
3.0 Firmware update FAST FAST FAST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Aug 04, 2008
By N. Tham
I am in LOVE with this unit! the screen is so large and bright compared to my previous garmin nuvi 350. When I fir got it, acquiring signal and recalculating route takes like 5 minutes, but after I got my free firmware 3.0 cd from sony and update my device, BAM it's LIGHTING FAST!!!! It sometimes even beats the speed of my Nuvi 350!!!
pros:
cheaper than the nuvi 350 and bigger screen.
and BEST OF ALL:
IT HAS QWERTY keyboard layout!!!
I hate nuvi's abcd layout with a passion, and with this, wow it's so comfortable.
Also it comes with FREE traffic antenna and updated service, unlike the nuvi which you have to pay $150 for.
no mp3 or anything, but I'm sure people use ipods for that...
btw:nuvi 350 recently got discontinued....
cons: no photo displaying ability
no mp3 player
no bluetooth
only uses memory stick pro duo
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