Customer Reviews
Great GPS for the price! 
2006-08-16
I bought this baby for $300, it has all the info for
maps from Mexico to Alaska. Nice easy to read display.
The push button menu key sucks, everything else is great.
Not as good as I thought 
2006-08-13
I have owned this GPS for 2 month.
This GPS takes very long time to load and transfer maps from a CD. One hour to transfer 250 MB. total 2 GB of map data for North America.
Map are outdated.
Sometimes the voice instruction are confusing. The map on the screen showing that you should turn right, but the voice will tell you "keep left". I got into the wrong lane and missed the turn because of that.
The routing calculation algorithm is not smart. the computer does not know which road or street is less traffic nor quicker. Mostly, the GPS will show you the rout which has less turns and stay on the main road. Indeed, there is a short cut which is faster and shorter.
My iCN 510 only work for 13 months. 
2006-08-09
I spent $544 bought a Navman iCN 510 last year in June. It only works for about 13 months. The memory card stops working. I called the tech support; they told me that it passed one-year warranty. I have to spend $150+ to ship it back and get it repaired. I can't believe this thing can really find a good time to die! At least this company is good at making it's GPS last till the warranty passes.
Returned item after one week! 2006-08-05
After reading many glowing reviews of this product, I decided to take the plunge and order one. One week later it was repackaged in the box and shipped back. The unit has some nice features including quick route calculations, many POI's, and a nice touch pad. However the time it took to acquire a sat signal makes this thiing pretty much useless. My commute time from work to home is roughly 25 minutes, it took the 520 from the time I left the work parking lot to the time I pulled into my driveway before it got a sat fix.I thought to myself...you have got to be kidding. So I gave it another go, I punched in my favorite takeout restuarant on the POI menu and set that as my destination. I left my house, went to the restuarant, picked up my food, drove back home, and guess what...still no signal, and this was after a warm start. Another downside is the software is lacking many updated streets. Some streets in my subdivision have been around for 4-5 years, but they are not found on the software. Also, it takes a 2GB SD card to load all the NA CD's that are included with the bundle and transferring states to your SD card is painfully slow. It took about 15-25 mins to download each state to the card (roughly 20mb's for a avg sized state). If you do not want a GPS system that will give you aggrevation time and time ago, this is not the unit for you.
The coolest gps in the market. 2006-07-26
I have used so many gps receivers since 98 starting from Garmin 12 and Delorme Earthmate interfaced with laptops and pdas, and also with bluetooth gps receiver. Then I just got the Magellan roadmate 800 a month ago. That thing was cool but bulky. Got some info on net how to hack it and able to play divx, overclock from 300mhz to 500mhz. But when I saw the iCN 520 on sale for $199 with free shipping, I could not resist a good deal like that and I bought one...
Here is the list of features of iCN520 that i like:
Smaller and lighter with same screen size 3.5",
Zooming and scrolling over the map is faster.
Someone complained about glare, maybe, but I adjusted my map color to white background and I had no problem to see directions. The small speaker distorts and sound metalic but I can live with that.
I also found info how to hack it and I can use as pda without block recognizer, divx, mp3 player, scientific calculator,...
Overall I found iCN 520 a cute and useful gadget.
NAVMAN iCN 520 Tested in my car and on my motorcycle 
2008-02-07
NAVMAN iCN 510 Vs. iCN 520 Portable GPS Navigation System
My original purchase was a iCN 510, After about a year I bought the software upgrade that now ships in
the newer model, the iCN 520. with the new software installed, my older iCN 510 now has the same specs
as the iCN 520. Only the color is different.
Both on my bike and in my car, I can give a more robust review, after having used this unit for several
months in addition to testing it with its original software. My updated review is in the works now.
Below you will find my first review.
Both units should display every road you come across using clear and robust graphics.
It's easy to use as a "where am I now" indicator. However, trying to set it to take you to a destination using
the iCN 510 seemed to often be impossible to program. Very difficult. It can be done, perhaps, if you study
the manual. I don't have the patience. The iCN 520, however seems to have addressed this problem using
updated software. The new software makes it MUCH easer to input the address of your destination.
It color codes roads so you know if a road is a main road or a secondary road as you approach it.
It talks when you use it to lead you to a destination. This feature does work well.
For use in your car you can just use the supplied suction cup. While I was testing it on my motorcycle I first
tried using it unit under the clear map area of my tank bag so I could just glance down at it (when was safe
to do so) to choose a new road or to stay on my present road. With the 3D angle I can tell if a road approaching goes a distance or just loops back onto the road I'm already on. More recently I used several nylon restraints (the type used by the police for instant handcuffs) to secure the suction cup shaft to a flat surface just in front of my instrument cluster. Now I can see it at a glance without having to look down too far. I strongly suggest that you get a good mounting platform from a third party and mount the device securely under your fairing or to your handlebars if you intend to use this unit on a motorcycle.
This unit is intended for use in a car or truck it has not been optimized for use on a motorcycle. The button placement does not work well while wearing gloves. This unit is much less expensive than the made for motorcycle GPS units. I use it as a cross platform device (car & motorcycle) to save money and because at the time I bought it GPS units for motorcycles were selling for $1000 and were not cross platform.
As with most, if not all GPS units, you will need a windows PC to install the software and maps.
These GPS units come with software CDs with maps for Canada and the USA and regional maps for the East,
Central and West of the USA and you store the maps on a SD card.
The new model (iCN 520) has a new color scheme, comes with a SD Card and most importantly, comes with
new improved software.
Also good news, if you already have a iCN 510 you can buy the new software and just upgrade the unit to
the improved software, essentially having a iCN 520 for the cost of the new software.
The iCN 510 may be available at discounted prices now! Also SD Cards are getting cheaper all the time. A 512mb SD card is supported by Navman and is big enough to get the job done.
Street price is about $325 to $500.
I will be posting a updated review in the next few weeks.
(This review is from my motorcycle / consumer electronics product review website ezrider.info)
Excellent GPS System 2006-12-21
I have owned the product for over a year, and it has always performed wonderfully. Gets a GPS fix in 30 - 45 secs the first time you turn it on each day, and if you shut it off during the day, it fires right back up getting its GPS fix within 15 seconds. I have the 2005 Smart ST maps, and they are very accurate. I have only noticed a few incidents of mapping errors (telling you to make a turn that is illegal, house number range off, etc...) No major mapping problems though. I have tried the Magellan 360, and looked at others, Garmin, Tom Tom, and for the price, this is the best way to go. Get a fast SD Card, so you don't get lockups in the software - I had made this mistake initially - buying a cheap SD card, and it would freeze during route calculations. Picked up a 1GB Sandisk Ultra II, and it works great, no more freezing, and I have about 1/2 the USA loaded on the card. I absolutely recommend this to anybody who wants a quality GPS System at a reasonable price.
Horrible 2006-11-10
Worked well maybe once! After that I couldn't get a satellite lock no matter what. I live in sunny Florida. No reason for it to have such a hard time locking on. Too bad the actual GPS part didn't work well because the graphics, user interface and shape were quite nice.
GPS 2006-11-10
I bought this item as a suprise for my husband, he uses it every day for work. He no longer has to print out maps, he just types in the address and it takes him right to his destination. Good product for the price.
Navman 520 2006-11-05
The unit started to send error messages when I was loading the state maps off of the CDs. All data was lost (I spent several hours loading the data at that point), and then it wouldn't take any data off of the CDs at all. I ordered a different brand, and am much happier with it.
