Mio sat-nav

By Simon McBride

11th December 2007

Whether you are heading for London’s Big Ben or Blackpool’s Tower, Mio’s newest sat-nav will guide you there thanks to its innovative 3D landmark display. 

The C620 is a great development, helping you to more accurately relate your pro-gress and position to the sat-nav display. And it also means you don’t have to keep changing the map magnification to check how you are getting on, as the landmarks are often depicted from several miles away.

More than 1,000 sites are installed to help you on your travels throughout the UK. Meanwhile, a new split screen allows you to view points of interest and critical journey information such as the next three turns, plus time and distance to destination, alongside the full map. This is another Mio first, and it works well.

The C620 also offers integrated Traffic Message Channel (TMC) reports as well as Truvelo and Gatso alerts. As with previous units, you can download camera data­base updates for free for one year from the point of registration. You are able to add your own locations and share them with other Mio users over the Internet, too. Our sole reservation is that the C620 is a bit slow on initial start-up.