Clarion NZ409 7-Inch Portable GPS Navigator
Price: $599.99


Product Feature
- DVD-Video/DVD� R/DVD±RW/CD-DA/CD-R/RW Ready
- Built-in Navigation (2 GB Flash Memory Map Storage/Map Coverage: US 50 States and Canada)
- 12 Million Built-in POIs
- TTS (Text to Speach) for Street Announcements
Product Description
Get there fast, and get there entertained with Clarion's NZ409. Featuring built-in GPS navigation, a 7-inch motorized touchscreen, iPod direct control, and plenty more, it's the perfect hub for your mobile entertainment needs.Clarion NZ409 7-Inch Portable GPS Navigator Review
Pro: the price was right with the nav and it is well integrated. The sound is right up there with the Alpine I had before. It does run my iPod Nano as advertised. When I played a DVD, it played the music but not the video (because the parking brake was not on)...that was cool.Con: I tried as hard as I possibly could to find a DVD player that would let me search through the iPod titles...this unit is down near the bottom of that capability <sigh> about the best you can do with the iPod is put it on shuffle or make some good playlists. It may be that the next generation of gear will do this, but for now, you're almost better off getting a unit with a aux jack on the front and using the ipod itself.
The Nav is good but is very different than the Garmin Nuvi I have. It gets a fix very quickly, but got totally confused yesterday when I tried to go to a nearby town using backroads. I had to turn the nav off after I made one turn it didn't like. The Garmin seems to recover better and recalculate your trip when something is wrong (like the road it wants to use is closed for construction).
The voice sounds like one of those answering phone synthetic voices that reads your credit card number back to you, not near as nice as the Garmin.
Once I get over how cool it is having it all-in-one, I will starting thinking about how much I spent to have a stereo that sounds about as good as the one I had before, plays an ipod almost the same as the one I had before, and has a nav almost as good as the one I had suction-cupped to my windshield that I could put in any car I drove.....it is cool having a touch screen and I guess that is the feature I really paid for.
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