Moov 200 / 200c GPS

 

One of the least expensive GPS devices on the market, Mio's Moov 200 (or 200c in Canada) is all business. The sole function of the Moov 200 is to show users where they are and provide instructions on how they can get where they need to go. Evaluated on these modest criteria, it scores excellent marks.

Like its more expensive competitors, the Moov 200 provides text-to-speech navigation, calling out names of streets and barking directions on cue and with precision in your choice of voices.

It also offers several typical ways in which users can customize their routes, providing options to avoid or prefer ferries, freeways, and toll roads, as well as select between routes of shorter physical distance and faster predicted travel times.

It delivers a few nice extras, too, such as driving speed alerts and GPS data logging.

Moov 200's small and lightweight body (just 136 grams, by our scale) features a diminutive but satisfyingly bright and clear 3.5-inch display that provides good viewing from most angles. Unfortunately, the smaller-than-average screen results in, predictably, a smaller-than-average touch keyboard, upping one's chances of typos.

However, its reliable predictive text system keeps tapping to a minimum, cutting down the number of mistypes.

There's really not much more to the Moov C200 than that, but that's kind of the point -- and the reason why it costs so much less than other GPS devices. Sometimes less is more. Other times, less is brilliant.

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Reviewed: Jan. 30, 2009
Type: Automotive, GPS
From: Mio


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