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The Mio DigiWalker¿ H610 is a stylish, handheld personal navigation and digital entertainment device. It is targeted at the mobile consumer who would enjoy real time direction or entertainment while driving, bicycling or walking and is unique as it combines high fashion, highly accurate GPS functionality, comprehensive point of interest location and a feature-rich digital media player all in a single device.

User Reviews about Mio DigiWalker H610 Handheld GPS and MP3 Player

One of the best devices I have. This thing does everything it suppose to do very well > navigating, movies, pictures, MP3s, games no problem. Volume is very loud. Good battery life with no lock ups, dependable. Clear screen. 11 million POIs. Good to travel with. I bought approx a year ago to replace the HP 310 and I am glad I did. -- Perfect.

I have had this product since May. I purchased it for a cross country move. The research I did said a map update will be available, so I purchased it, but it really doesn't look like Mio is working very hard on it with their new line of Moov units. I really love this gadget now that I've had time to tinker with it. Here's why:

Size: Its a versatile unit, but it is supposed to be carried around with you, thus it has a small screen.

Software: Its ok, I have never tried anything else, so I wouldn't know what I'm missing. It has alot of layers so you have to play with it to do what you want it to do. Just like the other reviewer said about adding your POIs, it takes time and practice to figure it out.

Function: It has hung up once on me, I haven't used it on my Vista machine yet. I always drain the battery and then recharge it, so my battery life is pretty decent still, I would say ~5 hours. The pedestrian feature is cool, there is also taxi, truck, emergency. The truck feature took me away from the parkways and restricted places in New York when we arrived, that was cool. But the fastest route one time took us off the freeway onto a highway, then back on the same freeway. Also in Nigara Falls it was telling us to go the wrong way to get to the bridge. So you have to understand it is not perfect, so if you see a sign that says turn right, then do it even if the Mio says left. All I'm missing is Subway and bus routes in NYC.

Features: I still haven't figured out what the CAMs are that you can add in places. Recently I've been using the Track Log or Route feature to record the distances that I run, like a wrist GPS, except this one plays music also, so I carry one device when I run and it tracks the distance and time that you are recording. I need an armband, but it still works in my pocket so far. In the car this feature keeps track of distance traveled when you don't have a destination set in the map.

Accessories: This thing comes with about everything you need. It has the car mount with 2 universal mounting disc things that were great in the Penske truck beverage holder on the dash. It also has 2 lanyards, one wrist and one neck, for when you are walking and dont want to drop it. It comes with a wall and car charger and a miniUSB cable. Also, comes with headphones that have a mute and volume control on the cable.

I paid 110 at Tiger, so not much in comparison, if I have problems like others have had I will be sad and will look for a GPS with similar features. -- I use it to track my runs while I listen to music mostly

Portable, wearing around my neck.
Video, image and music playing is great for me since I do not use GPS at all the time.
Old map, 2005, they say an update will be available by dec 2008, and I will buy the update (around $80), expensive since I pay $120 for this GPS.
I practice using every feature and trick on this GPS, and now love every bit of it. Fast reroute, clear voice, very responsive and fairly accurate are a few good points I can remember now.
A few things I do not like, for example is you can not easily plan your trip by entering departure and destination and let it route like Micheline GPS (Micheline GPS is more accurate, tells you destination point on left or right), will not retain settings when power off completely (should have a button batt for back up), very slow locking on GPS after a long time off and too much glared.
Over all, it is a fun toy for me. -- good enough for me. I recommend