pioneer avic-s1 gets good rating
Aug 16, 2006 avic, gps navigation, gps reviews, pioneer
On a recent review Pioneer’s AVIC-S1 GPS navigation system got the ‘good’ rating from the editors. Pioneer is trying to change to focus and target customers who are looking for cheaper navigation systems that are not necessarily integrated into the dashboard and have huge screens. At a list price of $600 the AVIC-S1 is just that but nothing more; lacking a few functions such as poor POI interface.
Here are some of the features the review mentions:
- 3.5-inch touch screen
- SiRF Star III GPS
- Bluetooth hands-free phone interface
- support for multiple-stop itineraries
- ability to block specific roads
- 1.5 million POI database
- 14 built-in languages
- voice prompts
One of my big disappointments with the AVIC-S1 was with its handling of POIs. Although there are 21 categories, some of them, such as car dealerships and motorcycle dealerships, seem less than useful compared with POI categories on other devices. For example, I searched within the Hotel and Motel categories near my home. No matches were found. But when I searched all categories, it found 11 hotel/motels within 1.8 miles of my home. Interestingly, the POI database didn’t include phone numbers—something that I consider a real oversight for a GPS with Bluetooth hands-free capabilities. Additionally, you couldn’t search by name for a nearby POI.
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