May 102013
Clarion FZ502 Digital Media Receiver with Bluetooth (HD Radio and SiriusXM Ready)
- SiriusXM-ready for satellite radio tuner connection
- HD Radio ready for HD radio module connection
- Built-in Parrot Bluetooth with Built-in Microphone
- USB Connection; iPod and iPhone connection
- Digital Media; MP3 / WMA Player
Clarion Fz502 Mechless MP3/WMA Receiver With USB Port & Bluetooth
List Price: $ 199.99
Price: $ 199.99
Harman Kardon GPS-510 4-Inch Widescreen Portable GPS Navigator and Media Player
- Text-to-Speech in English announces the next manuever by name such as the street name or highway.
- A Real-time traffic reciever is integrated allowing the unit to receive notifications of traffic
- 4″ WQVGA 480 x 272 High resolution widescreen provides an increased viewing area
- The GPS-510 features a highly intuitive, easy-to-use interface. Minimal key strokes are needed to program an address
- Full-featured digital audio & video player is included to make it a great personal media player
GPS-510 Harman Kardon Portable Navigation+Traffic+Audio+Video device offers a highly intuitive user interface making it an easy to use navigation device. It features Text-to-Speech in English. It also offers full playback capability of digital music and video files. All access and control is via a high resolution 4″ WQVGA touchscreen. In navigation mode, it offers easy-to-understand spoken instructions and visuals in 17 different languages. Turn-by-turn graphics with all vital information is di
List Price: $ 399.99
Price: $ 249.00
Great product,
Husband says this unit gets fantastic tuner reception, easy to install and is easy to use. He is VERY happy with it!
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|Good simple receiver,
Clean sound, clear reception. The single control wheel/button/lever takes some time to get used to, the screen saver (feature advertisement) mode was annoying until I got it turned off. I have read and re-read the manual several times and cannot find a way to get the clock to display, except at the clock time setting screen. Bluetooth works fairly well, but when I paired my iPad, it lost connection to my phone – par for Bluetooth I suppose, but I expected more – I suppose you can use the iPad via cable and have the phone paired.
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|Awesome radio,
This radio work flawlessly w my system. Easy to install, just solder 5 wire n plug in all the accessory n ready to roll. Sound plain n uncolorful compare to replaced kenwood. After burn in sounded warmer just how I like it!
Overall great product. Only thing is it can’t finds iPhone all the time.
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|Good GPS, lacks basic mp3/video controls.,
Nice looking device, fits perfectly in hand. Touch screen is slick and very responsive… menus are easy to navigate and a home key is always present to take you back to beginning.
Charged it up and took it outside… was surprised when it locked on the instant i powered up… it had our spot on the map where it should be, so we started walking to end of street and the 510 tracked almost instantly when we were walking, as well as when we turned direction and headed back other way. Spent the next few days having it on in car and GPS function worked extremely well… never had any mistakes or weird routes (keep in mind only tested over a few days)… said names of streets clearly. Seemed to perform very well as GPS device.
Now for media player review:
OK, first of all — the screen on it is very sharp and crisp… demo movies, and movies i loaded on to it, display very nicely. converted some dvd’s to .avi or .xvid (cant remember which right now) and it played with no problems.
Anyway the biggest disappointment in the media department is that there are virtually no basic options/controls for mp3 or video playback. On videos there is absolutely no options to select from (zoom, full, etc.)… but they played well, so not a big deal.
MP3, however, is a different story. There is no “now playing” feature, nor the ability to create playlists from the player. (and of course no equalizer options or anything else.) So say you have a bunch of pop songs on the player and a bunch of classical and/or comedy tracks — if you are in your car and you want it to shuffle through all of your pop songs there is no way to do that unless you have made a playlist on your pc comprised of only pop songs and have downloaded that playlist to the player. VERY restrictive. You can sort by artist/track/album in the player…. but you can’t choose it to select more than one specific artist/track/album at a time. So if you want to listen on shuffle — it’s either shuffle through EVERY song on the player, or shuffle through one artists tracks. you can’t specify more than one of any category to play through the player. Big bummer.
Add into all of that the fact that you are restricted to a max of 4GB of storage on an SD card — so a couple of movies and you are going to have to buy another card if you want to carry around a lot of songs at the same time. Oh and no ability to view pictures either in case you wondered.
Summary: If you are looking at this as the perfect device to include mp3,video, gps — i would pass. Personally the restrictions of the audio playback, along with no pics and 4 gb max just wouldn’t cut it for me. I use my mp3 player (creative vision w) all the time in car, in house, etc. and need those basic mp3 controls. The extra price of the 510 for the media capabilities isn’t justified IMO. For the same price of the unit ($400ish) i can get a nice gps only device and a solid media player (creative w for instance) with 30 – 60 gb of onboard storage.
Now if you aren’t a big mp3/video user, then perhaps you would be satisfied with the limited media options as a trade off for the convenience of having it all in one package instead of having to carry around 2 units.
Hope this helps someone.
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|HK 510,
Some of the bad reviews almost scared me away. I bought this unit anyway. I like it. Easy to use, and it is easy to program in destinations. I’m impressed with the software. Solid unit!
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|Great GPS and great features,
The Harman/Kardon gps 510NA is a GPS that gets the job done and more. The navigation is really intuitive and easy to use. I live in the Midwest and seems to me that I get a GPS lock really quickly even from a cold start. The text-to-speech is a great feature, I love it for when I have no idea where I am. When I do know where I am I like to change the voice to the British person, it just sounds cool.
After reading some of the other reviews I was a little worried about purchasing this device expecting the navigation to be lacking. I’ve used a TOMTOM before and this works just as well as a TOMTOM it goes to the same places it even gets lost in the same places. Yes it does it lost, but all GPS’s get lost, roads change. If you have ever driven before you should be able to figure it out by just reading the road signs, so don’t worry about it getting you lost it rarely happens if at all. The maps on the device are still really good, just as good as TOMTOM. I am surprised by how many POI it has. I was really impressed by that, I would buy for that ability alone. I only wish you could save the spot you were currently at, otherwise the navigation is great.
I use the music feature every time I go on a long trip, I plug the device into my car system and listen that way, it sounds really good. One downside is the playlists don’t work. You can create playlists but they are never in the order that you created they sort alphabetically in the device. Whenever I get some where before I have to, or if I have to wait for someone, or even just sitting around at home I use the movie feature. I like to always have at least two movies saved on my memory card to watch whenever I need to. It did take me awhile to find the right AVI format that looked the best and worked.
PROS: Watch movies, navigate while listening to music, text-to-speech, store media on large SDHC card, tons of POI, and it is easy to use.
CONS: No power saver, no new updates until 2009(says company), the manual isn’t very useful, onboard speaker isn’t great.
Overall: The navigation will get you from point A to point B while looking good. It sounds great using headphones or other speakers. The movies look great, and I can watch entire movie on one battery charge.
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