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It boggles my mind why someone would pay this price for a mere holder of a gps. For less than this, you could buy a brand new separate GPS unit that comes with its own holder. And the GPS would be better, considering the Arhchos one is junk.Seriously, for this price, the holder should also wash your windshield, hold your beverage, and steer the car.
I would not recommend this unless you are able to support the weight with something else. I purchased this in July of 2008. I even have it resting on the dash and it still broke off. I've been using it with my 160GB 605. The suction cup has broken off twice and been replaced both times by Archos. I assume it is from putting it in and taking it out of the GPS cradle. It is nice to run the audio out to a stereo and still be able to charge the unit.
I opened ticket with Archos support 8 months ago. Very bad route calculation unless you are going to use it for up to 5 miles trips. The good is that the suction cup works very well and the unit is compact.THE BAD is all the rest. I was told that it is third party vendor that develops the Navigation system and they can only send the problem to them but can't track the solution nothing but it should come out at some point as update. If you have toll booth on the highway it will never get you on it regardless of did you turn the avoid toll roads on or off. In fact I was in NY state trying to get to Niagara Falls and this "smart" navigation wanted me to leave the Route 90 where the toll booths are go up 87 all the way to Canada cross over and get to Niagara Falls from the Canadian side. 8 moths so far no update no nothing. I am stuck with $120 worth of useless windshield plastic hanger.
i purchased one item and it was bad, I returned it and the same thing bad again. the product Key that comes wit the Archos GPS does not match the unit.
Ok. Other than that, I really do like the GPS. Overall I'm glad I bought it and saved the $50 difference on the two units. The Pro's is once you learn how to navigate through the GPS it is just like a Garmin 205 with more detail(I have one in my other car). If you don't have an Archos 605 (which I love), buy the Garmin 205. They both have a POI, speed limit indicator, good detail on maps, you have to download the software for both of them from the internet and easy to understand directions. This is a base model GPS unit that has a base model cost. It will give you the exit number you need to exit on and it has a bit more detail than the Garmin 205.
The biggest problem I have/had with the Archos GPS is they did not give me the correct "code" to start my software download. The other problem is the holder is big and bulky and finally the speaker is not very loud. So If you have a Archos 605 I would buy this if you want a GPS unit. The Garmin is very small, easy to use but will get lost at times like any base model GPS (even though I have not had that issue with the Archos, YET).
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