Navman Drive DUO SUV

Won't switch on – My Navman Drive Duo Suv has stopped working. it was getting more and more difficult to switch it on and now it switches on for a couple of seconds then dies. I am assuming it is the battery but advice needed. Show details ·  1

Excellent GPS & camera – Purchased online for $279 four months ago. Easy to set up as I only required GPS and dashcam .Other features such as Bluetooth were not required. As the screen is 6inch the picture is clear and easy to follow. As the dashcam has a very wide lens there is some distortion at the edges but livable. Very handy to have notifications of traffic holdups. Show details ·  1

Highly recommend do not buy this product – The unit has not work for more than one day Freezes all the time screen will not refresh. I have missed that many turns since I have had it. I can only use it as a camera, If I dare try to use the navigation the screen freezes Show details

Excellent service provided – The camera of the head unit failed after nearly two years. I contacted Navman (Hazel) via email and followed her recommended and suggested fixes. Although Hazel was very friendly and helpful, the fixes were not successful. I returned the head unit from Canberra to Sydney on a Thursday. A new head unit arrived the following Tuesday. Can't ask for better service than that. Congratulations NAVMAN. Show details ·  1

Heap of crap, (keeps freezing) – Heap of crap, (keeps freezing), buy another brand, save the frustration. Bought it 2mths ago for a trip, over the 6000kms covered it worked for maybe 1500kms. Updated it tried again back in Brisbane froze 10 times over 45min journey. I found it outright dangerous, as I was focused on the frozen screen instead of the road. Show details

Waste of money – I found that it would not turn on when starting our journey. I would do it manualy sometimes it would stay on, sometimes not . I found myself taking it out of the vehicle and charging it in the home still finding it would do the same. This is continual charge all the way through ! Show details

Hopeless – The first one died and JB replaces it very quickly (suggests it’s commonplace). But, it’s rubbish nevertheless. Often locks up showing the navman screen. Tells you about cameras on roads you’re not on!? Gets the distance to objects completely wrong, like it doesn’t know what speed you’re doing. Just yesterday it told me about a camera 20Metres… Read more

away whilst I was doing 100kmh and the actual camera was 150m behind!? It won’t allow you to turn off the stupid lane deviation/ collision warning “feature” off!? This gps is a total pile of junk! Btw the 4WD maps are almost non-existent and rubbish when they do exist.

Needs further development – I purchased this unit in January 2018 for a specific task during a trip in central Australia in August 2018. The unit work flawlessly whilst on nice smooth road surfaces for the first 3 months or so & then the bugs started to show up, unit failed to switch on even with a full battery, sometimes it would freeze just after start up. The journey up… Read more

through SA & in to NT was plagued with issues with the GPS device, several times hard re-sets had to be done to get the unit to power up & work accordingly.

Not overly impressed by this unit, could do with some further development especially in the are of off road stability.

Looks like I maybe returning it for a more substantial device.

Don't buy this GPS/Dashcam – I purchased a 6" Navman DUO SUV because it had dashcam and GPS all in the one unit. IMO this unit is a big letdown. I have 2 Garmin GPS and they have good clearly defined screen maps with white background and coloured wide roads with roads in large print and clearly defined. Not so the Navman, grey background, narrow roads, and small print for the… Read more

roads. None of the 5 options to change the screen fixes the problem. The directions are absolutely hopeless. I was heading west on the M5 out of Sydney and wanted to go on the M7 to Brisbane, ( the correct instruction would be to take the left off ramp. But instead it said to keep RIGHT, this would have taken me to Campelltown). I took it back and got my money refunded.The only reason I didn't buy the Garmin alternative was because Garmin only make a 5" GPS/dashcam unit and I wanted a 6". I' ll now wait until Garmin produce a 6"

It freezes frequently – I bought it several months ago but rarely use it as it often not reliable and unresponsive than our google maps on the phones. There are several issues some which were outlined on other reviews. The one most annoying is that if you turn it on without starting the engine. It starts. If you then switch on the engine it just shuts off or freezes,… Read more

there is nothing you can do to power it up or reset it. You must have to unplug it so it completely runs out of battery thereby unfreezes itself.......

Screen is also extremely hard to see under daylight.

Video or photo taken can’t be played back. It keep saying no data.

I really regret buying it now as it’s is such painful experience using it.

Garbage – This is the most useless navigational device on the market, do not buy. It will direct you through private property retirement villages gardens and parks four-wheel drive tracks unsuitable for cars has no idea, this product should be withdrawn from the market. I am on my second one replacement through warranty just as useless as the first one. … Read more

At least this one has a voice that speaks proper English not some stupid robotic voice that speaks a pigeon English

Nevertheless it is no point when it is unable to navigate correctly this device will take you down goat tracks instead of the freeway local knowledge is required if you want to use this device no good if you're venturing into an area you do not know an old fashioned street directory is more useful.

Don't Bother - stick with a cheap Asian import – Bought this unit 9 months ago and I have to say I'm very disappointed on so many fronts. At the outset I need to mention that I usually buy cheap no-name GPS units on eBay which run for a year and then I just replace them with a better featured model, so my review is based on years of personal experience with these cheap no-name units. Let's… Read more

start with the navigation performance... TERRIBLE!! The processing power in this unit is definitely under-powered, the built in search engine does not have the smarts that the cheaper GPS units have and will often not find what you're looking for, so it's quicker to search on your smartphone to find the address and then enter it into the unit. When navigating it has moments where it just pauses for a few seconds, especially after you've taken a suggested turn, it seems to take a few seconds to regain it's position; I'm talking about driving on suburban highways and roads where GPS signal is very strong, not inner city & CBD where most GPS units suffer. The other problem is that when you go into a tunnel it just freezes until it finds GPS signal again, unlike the cheaper models that recognise you are in a tunnel (based on mapped route) and keep directing you at the last known speed so you have an idea where you are going to exit, but no, this one just freezes until it finds GPS signal and then takes it's time to get back on track, by which time it's too late because you've already probably taken the wrong exit :(

The other problems with this unit relate to usability with the interface which is slow and sometimes unresponsive.

Updating the lifetime maps is equally a pain, the Navman servers are excruciatingly slow and you'll be retrying for ages before you actually get your maps to update.

Just stay away from this model!!!