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Novogo S700 GPS navigation review

May 11, 2007 gps navigation, reviews

Novogo S700 just got reviewed by PCMag and it only received 3 out of 5. If you read the review you’ll see the product seems to do what it promises, which makes us think that it lost those 2 points due to features it never claimed it had, that being the text-to-speech feature.

Once you familiarize yourself with the menu system, the S700 is simple to use. Unfortunately, this GPS does not support text-to-speech conversion, so it won’t announce street names for you. My test unit also lacked the optional TMC traffic receiver, so I was unable to test the traffic feature. And although I did have the more expensive S700BT Bluetooth model, it was unable to discover my LG VX9900 phone. Routes generated were very similar to those of other units that use TeleAtlas maps, though the specific routes created did vary based on how the Method routing preference slider was set. Fortunately, it’s quite easy to select a specific street to avoid in the turn-by-turn list view.

Novogo is not currently available in the U.S. but expect to see them at stores in the near future selling the S700’s for about $400.