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Nabaza.net-The MarketPlace - Mobile Crossing WP200 Way Point Portable PC and GPS Navigator
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List Price: $749.99
Our Price: $245.00
Your Save: $ 504.99 ( 67% )
Availability: N/A
Manufacturer: Mobile Crossing
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Batteries Included: 1
Binding: Electronics
Brand: Mobile Crossing
Color: Sliver
CPU Speed: 400
Display Size: 3.5
EAN: 0840356910222
Feature: Ultra-thin GPS navigator for vehicle or handheld use (transfers easily from car to car)
Includes Mp3 Player: 1
Is Autographed: 0
Is Memorabilia: 0
Label: Mobile Crossing
Manufacturer: Mobile Crossing
Model: WP 205
Modem Description: None
Publisher: Mobile Crossing
Special Features: Time/date
Studio: Mobile Crossing
Variation Description: Sliver
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Features
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Ultra-thin GPS navigator for vehicle or handheld use (transfers easily from car to car)
Combines satellite-guided vehicle navigation with Bluetooth-enabled Windows Mobile 2003 Pocket PC
Includes complete Navteq Onboard national maps and databases with millions of points of interest
Offers visual and voice navigation commands, weather and traffic alerts, and 1-button functionality
Easy-to-read 3.5-inch screen; measures 3.1 x 5.3 x 0.63 inches (W x H x D); 90-day warranty
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Editorial Reviews:
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The WayPoint is a new family of portable navigation systems by Mobile Crossing. The company is committed to providing the finest navigation systems for today's active drivers. If it is important to you that your GPS system works well in your car as well as your pocket, the WayPoint is an excellent choice. The WayPoint is lightweight, thin and runs for over 3 hours on battery power. It retains all the features of the expensive in-car navigation systems, yet, can be moved easily from car to car, and due to an onboard lithium ion battery, can work as a hiking and marine GPS in a pinch. Ensure your choice of GPS navigation system has Navteq Onboard. You will depend on your navigation system to never get you lost, so never compromise on the quality of maps. Navteq also provides millions of points of interest covering all thebest places to visit. Nobody else makes better maps than Navteq. All members of the WayPoint family come with Navteq Onboard. Face it, you will have the radio on, your passengers will be talking and any number of distractions will be happening around you. Your navigation system needs to be loud and clear with natural spoken directions that guide you turn-by-turn. Unlike other navigation systems that use difficult to understand computer voices, the WayPoint is pleasantly human. Although the WayPoint is designed to be an excellent navigation system first, it is important to most people today that their devices are well integrated. If you do not already own a digital organizer, you will be pleasantly surprised to find that the WayPoint is 100% compatible with all Windows Mobile (Pocket PC) applications. In fact, it contains a complete set of Windows Mobile 2003 Premium Edition applications including Internet Explorer, Windows Media Player, and Outlook compatible organizer applications.
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Customer Rating:
Summary: Mobile Crossings WP200 Review
Comment: The Mobile Crossings WP200 GPS can be a bit difficult to set up it you do not have experience with mobile devices. With a little trial and error you can figure it out. As a GPS goes the screen size is comfortable. The PDA is simular to the HP 6300 in that it has the outdated Windows mobile 2003. Which is impossible to upgrade to Windows Mobile 5 or 6. To use it with Windows Vista,you need to download some software. I like the PDA because it can hold other valuable information, games, and software, although it is light and has a cheap feel to it. The size and shape resembles many of the HP PDA's, but the resemblence ends there. The bluetooh GPS allows the PDA to be passed around inside the vehicle. The maps provided by Mobile Crossings are out dated. If you live in an area that did not exist five years ago, your home address will not work for a destination or starting point. The customer service seems to be non-existant, I have tried to contact them on several occasions and no return emails. I read somewhere that Mobile Crossings is going out of business. This may be true with all of the smartphones out there with GPS. All in all I would reccomend the Mobile Crossings PDA to people that really enjoy learning about PDA's and GPS systems. If you do purchasd one of these units I reccomend you get extra batteries, and the globalsat gps with flash.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Couldn't get GPS working
Comment: Keep getting errors and when it works does not show my address in my regional map :(
Customer Rating:
Summary: It's a great entry level gps/ pocket pc on sale...
Comment: My first impression of the gps was that it seemed sturdy out of the package and the equipment wasn't too overwhelming but made sense. The set up was a little tricky because you had to do this update in order to get your maps uploaded. Be real careful because it requests you to hit yes for an update and it's like a three second window, otherwise you have to restart the whole update process and then you can sync your gps. Once you get the maps on it is pretty straight forward... you have a lot of customizing and I will note that the text to speech function is there, meaning it dictates street names but only with the text to speech voice. It is decent but the interface isn't nearly as friendly as the garmin gps but it does also have the navteq which is supposed to be better than the teleatlas, (ie. tom tom)
Pros: Attractive design, bluetooth, windows, real text to speech
Cons: Bit cumbersome, needs to be updated to begin, windows, garbled speech at times.
All in all, for below retail, the range of the gps is great due to waas and bluetooth. Compared it to the routing of the garmin m5 and it seemed to have picked up a signal quicker and took the same route! Great entry level!
Customer Rating:
Summary: Good ppc with an old GPS navigation software
Comment: If you are buying it only for GPS, this might be not the one you are looking for. Its GPS map is quite out of date, and there are accurate points of interest (POI) with the software. But for the price, it's unbeatable
Customer Rating:
Summary: Just received mine this week...so far very satisfied
Comment: I bought this unit for its PDA features...I already have a top of the line GPS unit so i will not use the GPS features on this...For $[...] after rebate, this is an amazing deal. I have only used the PDA/organizer so i cannot speak about the GPS/navigation abilities of this device; however I am quite impressed with the mobile crossing 200 device so far. This has more than everything I need to keep me organized in the office. The documentation and instructions were a little confusing and the multiple cords in the box also made things a little complex; however, with some patience I figured out how to use this device... Also, the mobile crossings website is still up and running..be sure to check out their forums for advice on how to best use this product. I heard that the company went out of business, so I'm not sure how much longer their website will be operational. Anyway, if you are looking for a great PDA device, give this unit a try!
UPDATE:!!
I am attempting to fill out the $50 rebate on this product. The rebate form indicates that they want a "copy of your original UPC Label cut from the package." This implies to me that they want a photocopy of the original. Am I correct? However, when you read the terms and conditions at the bottom of the page, it says "Photocopies of UPC will be accepted." This is clearly a deceptive business practice and is meant to confuse the average customer. I hope that Amazon.com does not stoop to such lows as to deliberately try to confuse its customers so they won't get their rebate money. For those of you who are denied their rebates, you should file a complaint with the attorney generals office regarding these deceptive business practices..
Update: 2/11/07: Rebate Status: I got a notice back in the mail saying that the barcode that I sent was not the UPC symbol. Unfortunately, I sent the only barcode that came with the package. Why does Amazon.com like to deceive its customers. I will be filing a complaint with the Better Business Bureau and attorney generals office. Fraud is not cool!THis is BS!
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