Not one for the road

On the trip,I took my favourite GPS along too. While it took my GPS less than a minute to lock on Golden Temple,Amritsar,Moov took about three minutes. I don’t know why it asks the user if you want to use it as a video player,audio player,picture viewer or navigator when the last one is its primary function. But the interface was slightly better than what I have seen on other Windows CE devices,though the hardware felt under-powered while doing a search.

The two units showed a slight difference,about three kilometers,to the destination. It seemed each one had its own way of getting there within the city. With the distance at 481 km,the units showed that our ETA would be around 18:30 hours. But as we moved on,the ETA kept changing on both units. For some reason the moment we left Delhi,the Moov wanted me to take the old highway and not the new one. Even on selection of an alternate route,it pointed me towards the old route. At every turn it kept telling me how I could rejoin the old highway. Strangely,this stopped only about 100 km from my destination.

Once in Amritsar,we started looking for points of interest,like places to eat and landmarks,and the Moov failed miserably. Though SatGuide claims there have about two million points of interest,I was unable to find a single one and had to resort to the other GPS and local knowledge.
On our way back,the Moov wanted me to turn towards Chandigarh and then turn to Delhi,a 200-km detour. Back in Delhi,my home is next to a famous landmark,but sadly the Moov located the landmark about four km from my house.

Despite the problems,at Rs 13,990 the Moov 200 is a good buy if you are looking at city to city navigation. With the bad quality of road markings,half of them covered photographs of politicians and milestones that are not there,a GPS unit makes sense,but if you are looking to explore your city,the Moov might not be what you are looking for.