in dash gps & oziexplorer

we have a kenwood,with gps,ipod audio and video ,dvd,tv,reverse camera,all in on 2 din 7"touch screen uses Garmin Nav so plenty options for extras ,we have oztopo on sd card.I bougth a chinese one of ebay for my son car and it didnt work ,we returned it and got our money back.the Kenwood cost $2000.00 but its pretty impressive.

I bought and installed one about 3 months ago. The instructions are minimal and mostly appeared to be for another unit. I emailed the seller and he was very quick to help. Installation took awhile because it didn't quite fit in my 2004 Hilux 3.ol TD.

Once I got the hang of using it I found it a reasonable unit. The radio is okay without being brilliant. The ipod connection is handy but it doesn't charge the ipod and the on-screen controls are very slow to use. It has the option to use the ipods own controls and I found that the best.

There is an SD slot which is great. I put music and photographs on it. The DVD is pretty good as well. The CD player takes MP3s. Lots of music options.

The GPS took a biit of getting used to but once it is set up it is excellent. The only problem I encountered was if you take a different route to the one it calculated for you, it continually tells you to turn around or to go around the block to go back to its route. It eventually sorts itself out. If it takes too long then I just start a new route to the same destination. Mine uses Route 66.

Mine uses WinCE 5.0. I would like to load ozieexplorer but I haven't tried it yet. You do have the option to run an executable file for the GPS so you might be able to run ozie.

Link to user instructions. They are pretty close.

http://www.pocketgpsworld.com/route66-navigate-7-review.php

Reversing camera is good. it uses a CCD camera which are bl**dy expensive.

That's about it. I half expect it to fall apart on the first rough road but you never know.

Regards,
Bob

Paul, I have the VMS in dash unit with Bluetooth, mapping and everything. DVD, iPod control, USB music - all that, including radio

I am very pleased with it. Memory Map is standard but I have OziExplorer developer version running in it instead as MM is like vers 1.1 Ozi LITE, it is light. I have made the point with VMS but they get a lot of people that aren't computer savvy so it works for them ;-(( No matter I already have Ozi licences. The map availability is far better.

The turn by turn software is fantastic being NavNgo iGo 8 is heaps better than anything else I had tried. It still uses Sensis mapping which isn't yet up to date, but version 15 should arrive soon as my free upgrade. Paul, I have some pics with my profile.

VMS is locally supported Chinese made and the screen is good to read

Thanks everyone for your replies. I think I will look at the vms unit as it seems to be very good with every think already loaded.

Paul