Mio Moov 200 review
Apr 14, 2008 gps navigation
Mio’s new lineup “Moov” was recently announced and now we have a review for Mio Moov 200.
The new Moov devices run on an in-house navigation software developed by using Navman technology, a GPS company Mio bought out last year. As a result, user interface on Mio devices has changed quite a bit. Although the reviewer likes some of the differences, such as Moov’s text-to-speech conversion, multi-segment routing, and multiple language support, it looks like Mio has taken a step backward when it comes to presenting POIs.
Like Mio’s previous entry-level product, the DigiWalker C220, the Moov 200 features a 3.5-million-entry POI database, but the way it handles POIs is disappointing. You can search for POIs by name or by city/area, or search for nearby POIs by category (parks, restaurants, and such). By contrast, all three of the DigiWalker devices offer more search choices, so it’s easier to find your POI. Additionally, when you search by name with the Moov 200, results are presented alphabetically by city name rather than by distance, which isn’t as useful. And there aren’t any POI subcategories, so although I could search for nearby restaurants, I couldn’t specify Italian or Chinese.
However not doing so well in terms of POI does not make Moov 200 a bad product. Priced under $200 this GPS navigation system still adds features that are not available in closely priced competitors – such as the text to speech feature and multi segment routing. Mio Moov 200 currently sells for $180 Amazon. It is a bargain… via
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April 30th, 2008 at 11:58 am
I agree, bought one today. Great Value for money!
May 6th, 2008 at 6:40 am
Just bought one of these off amazon. Works really well for the price. Good value.
May 11th, 2008 at 12:36 am
I just got a Moov 200 today, and will return it at my earliest opportunity.
Mapping Pebble Beach, California, it failed to list one of the most notable golf courses there, Spyglass Hill. That’s just plain stupid.
And directing me from Oakland to Pebble Beach, it failed to mention that Rte. 156 ends where it intersects Rte. 1. Also stupid.
Directing me from the top of the Oakland Hills to CA-880, via the shortest distance rather than the shortest time took me on the most tortuous route imaginable, and it wasn’t the shortest by a long shot.
There is no way to edit a route that I could find.
The software indicates what ought to show up on the computer screen, but it doesn’t.
This may be a great price, but not for a POS like this.
June 11th, 2008 at 11:44 pm
My home address is off by a city block. Kinda of annoying. I still think it has got more strengths than weaknesses.
June 11th, 2008 at 11:46 pm
It’s also on sell at Radio Shack for $150.00.
June 20th, 2008 at 9:13 am
Got one for Father’s Day (2008). I’m a lucky guy, the Moov 200 works really well. Good value. Used it for trips so fatr that I KNEW where I was going and one that I didn’t. Each time it lead me to the correct destination using the shortest route. Any trouble people are having maybe “user error” because the unit is fine.
June 20th, 2008 at 9:14 am
Got one for Father’s Day (2008). I’m a lucky guy, the Moov 200 works really well. Good value. Used it for trips so far that I KNEW where I was going and one that I didn’t. Each time it lead me to the correct destination using the shortest route. Any trouble people are having maybe “user error” because the unit is fine.
June 20th, 2008 at 11:07 pm
great…
I have moov 200 too and I bought the leather case for Mio Moov 200 from Carrymobile.com to protect my moov 200.
September 14th, 2008 at 7:24 am
It gets hung up computing some routes for me, but I haven’t been able to determine the common factors causing the problem. Perhaps it has something to do with the route being to complex mixed with being far away and overwhelms the available memory.
Since it is a base model, I don’t expect huge things from it. In fact, my dear old Garmin eMap still has some better features, such as setting way points by coordinates instead of address. However, this has the one thing I really wanted at an almost unbeatable price point, text to speech – saying the street names, for less than $150 USD (got mine on sale for even less than that). That comes very much in to play when traveling to new places and in keeping my eyes on the road to stay safe in unfamiliar territory.
October 29th, 2008 at 9:06 am
It’s hard to find a text-to-speech GPS for this price! I bought a Moov 200 for $100 at Staples after rebates. We wanted to replace a cellular GPS since we often have to use the cellphone and GPS at the same time.
The only drawback is the maps are old (at least a year and perhaps two years old). I called Mio for updated maps and was told there is no estimate on when those would be available.
Like other GPS devices I tried, this one has some strange routes. I don’t know if this is due to the age of the maps (mentioned above) or because this does not have a real-time traffic interface. However, it could adjust its instructions quickly when I changed my route. It has also found every POI and address I wanted it to find.
February 2nd, 2009 at 7:56 am
Bought a Mio MOV 200. I only paid 100.00 for it at Radio Shack. It is a waste of money even at that price. If you ever need to have repaired Mio takes 2 days from receipt of the return to log the unit in and over a week to find out whats wrong with it. I just got off the phone with Mio & they will not tell you anything about its status.
February 16th, 2009 at 4:42 pm
picked up 2 of these at Circuit City for 90 each…(going out of business)…despite some of it’s short comings noted above (haven’t played with it enough to find my own) the fact that it has a qwerty keyboard to type in destinations…and that it found my address..which no GPS that I have tried has yet…made it a nice quick purchase.
March 2nd, 2009 at 8:18 pm
AMERICAAAA
FUCK YAAA
March 24th, 2009 at 11:34 am
It has some directional errors in the gps system; for example when I should enter I180 aourh but instead it directed me to I280 North. I experienced this over and over many times when it should be US101 south but instead it tells me US 101 north. Something is wrong with the software!
April 25th, 2009 at 11:36 am
Great blog. Can’t wait to see what you come up with next!
July 9th, 2009 at 4:38 pm
We did the update and what a mistake that was, now when we try to go anywhere it puts us on a route over 200 miles from us. We are in NEK of Vermont, we will be traveling on Route 5 when it tells us to turn on I-90, that’s in Boston, over 200 miles away. I have tried to get help from support but they don’t seem to exist. Don’t even try to call because you will get someone in a different country that don’t care one way or the other even if they knew anything which they don’t and there are never any one available for a live chat. It worked fine before the map update and I have tried to get it back the way it was but that doesn’t work. So don’t do a map update if you want it to work again.
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