this is regarding a Gps unit that is on sale for $99. Model Visco Gps vsc-n530a. Is it a good deal, feedback?
August 29, 2010 by GPS Answers
Filed under gps sale
Just wondering if anyone had problems with this item if they have purchased it already. its a Black friday special at the grocery store. Thanks for your help.
Yes it is a pretty good deal you will be saving around 50-100 dollars.
We bought a VSC N530A this weekend at Shaws, a New England-area supermarket, also for $99.99. This is our second GPS, and, so far we like it.
Our first GPS is a much more expensive hand-held by Garmin. The Garmin is much more robust, is waterproof, has many more features and the map data is more refined and detailed. On the other hand, the Garmin GPS has a much smaller screen, does not have a touch screen and, with the optional (but necessary) US driving atlas data, cost about 4 times the price. We bought the Garmin for hiking and kayaking as well as driving, and, for these uses, it’s the right choice.
The Visco is a lower-grade item but seems perfectly adequate. We bought it because we wanted a unit that is optimized for driving and is cheap. This seemed to fit the bill.
All we were hoping for was a fairly big 3.5 in. screen that depicted the road in 3D, and we got it. But we have also been pleasantly surprised by the Visco’s other aspects, including its ability to pick up GPS signals, its processing speed, its navigating features, its included map data (which, while not as good as Garmin MapSource, is still quite fine, at least between Boston & New York), and its extras, like a photo viewer, an mp3 player and an ebook reader.
I have seen a few critiques of this unit on other web sites. A glitch that I have noticed is a hardware-based “menu” button that doesn’t seem to do anything. That caused me concern until I verified that, with the touch-screen buttons, I could access all the menus.
You can find faults with this unit, but for $100 you’ll have the basic functions. If you have $300 or more to spend (and don’t mind losing it through loss or theft), I’d suggest a higher-grade GPS. But if you are on a budget, I’d say that this unit is a good choice.