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Via Michelin X-930 review

Feb 12, 2007 gps navigation

The Via Michelin X-930 got reviewed by editors of PCMag and only got a “fair” grade. It lost almost all its points due to the poorly designed user interface which required extra clicks / touches to do what you want. They try to compare the $300 price tag of Via Michelin’s user interface with other systems that have an easier to use menu – however they fail to realize that it costs $200 and not $300. That’s a huge difference.

Since most entry-level GPS devices are based on similar hardware platforms and use mapping data from one of two sources (Navteq or TeleAtlas), the real “secret sauce” that differentiates these products is in the user interface and menu system. Though Michelin’s brochures claim that the X-930 is easy to use, I found the menu system fairly difficult to figure out, even for someone like me, who has tested many, many GPS devices.

You can buy the Via Michelin X-930 from Amazon for only $200.