| | |  | Car Electronics | Home » » » Harman Kardon GPS-510 4-Inch Widescreen Portable GPS Navigator and Media Player | | | | | | | Product Promotions: | | | | | Description: | | 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 displayed in 2-D or 3-D and Maps of U.S. and Canada are built-in along with a 12 million point of interest database. Real-time-traffic information to reroute around traffic delays and antenna is included along with a 90 day free trial period. The full blown MP3 player offers browsing by Artist, Album, Genre, Song or Playlist. It will display ID3 tags for artist, title and album along with album artwork. MP3/AAC/WMA audio formats are supported along with Windows Media DRM 10 for compatibility with music and video download services. In video player mode the 4" high resolution WQGVA widescreen plays back hours of video and supports MPEG-4 and WMV9 video formats. All digital media is accessed via SD Card slot (SD card not included) and will accept SD and SDHC cards. | | | Features: | |
• Text-to-Speech in English announces the next manuever by name such as the street name or highway. The GPS-510's translation from Text-to-Speech is very easy to understand and natural sounding.
• A Real-time traffic reciever is integrated allowing the unit to receive notifications of traffic incidents allowing the opportunity to re-route around them (subscription required, 90 day free trial included).
• 4" WQVGA 480 x 272 High resolution widescreen provides an increased viewing area and detail making it easier to read instructions and street names.
• The GPS-510 features a highly intuitive, easy-to-use interface. Minimal key strokes are needed to program an address, look up points-of-interest or find the song you want to listen to.
• Full-featured digital audio & video player is included to make it a great personal media player in addition to an incredible portable navigation unit. The audio player allows you to search by artist, album, genre, song or playlist and displays album art.
| | | Product Details: | | | Product Length:
| 0.75 inches | | Product Width:
| 4.75 inches | | Product Height:
| 2.87 inches | | Product Weight:
| 2.7 pounds | | Package Length:
| 9.7 inches | | Package Width:
| 5.5 inches | | Package Height:
| 3.6 inches | | Package Weight:
| 1.65 pounds | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 21 reviews |
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 Nice concept - Lousy execution. Feb 27, 2009
I'll make this short and sweet. This unit is a piece of junk. I've used Garmin and Tom Tom in the past, and I had my share of complaints about the particular quirks of those units, but they both blow this thing away. I bought the Harman because I figured, even if the GPS function has deficiencies, it would be more that compensated by the media playing capabilities of the unit. I was wrong. I never had a chance to use the media functions because I couldn't get past how lousy the GPS works. Aside from being very difficult to follow onscreen, it CONSTANTLY took me to dead ends and roads that don't exist. The other frustration was that, despite a nice 4" screen, I still had major problems with the size of the icons and my slightly large fingers not being able to hit the icons I was aiming for. My frustration with this crappy excuse for a GPS has reached a climax, and I am officially dumping it today.
Pass on this one.
 Great GPS and Basic Media PlayerFeb 09, 2009
Like others I almost didn't buy this device because of others' bad reviews. I had a feeling that the people giving bad reviews were either luddites, technologically challenged, or were expecting way too much from this device. I was right. I bought this GPS not too long ago and I don't regret it one bit!
The GPS works GREAT and is very easy to use. Satellites are locked onto almost instantly. If you miss a turn or need to change directions the alternate route is re-calculated very, very quickly. Adding stops to a trip is very east as well. It is so simple any child who can read can program a trip with this device. There are also a plethora of pre-programmed Points of Interest.
The media functionality works exactly as advertised and exactly as I need it to. Drag and drop files from the computer to the SD card (or the device with the SD card inserted via the included usb cable) and quickly transfer any movies and music that you want to bring along for the trip. The screen is big enough to make watching a movie enjoyable. It is also perfect if you have kids and need to keep them entertained - in or out of the car.
Everything about this device is great. I have no complaints so far.
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I would like to follow up with a review after using this GPS for a little over six months. The unit worked pretty well (more anon) up until about a month and a half ago at which time the power button stopped working. As you can imagine, this is a huge inconvenience. In order to turn it on I have to plug it in, or use a paperclip to hit the reset button. In order to turn it off I have to unplug it. Worse, I can only charge it while it is on - if you plug it in, it automatically turns on and I cannot turn it off unless I unplug it. If I use it while riding a bike, or in any other circumstance where there is no power I am out of luck. I can turn it on, but not off, so the battery runs out before I can complete the trip. Very annoying. The GPS also began freezing a lot over the last couple months before the power button broke. It got to the point that I had to always carry a paperclip with the GPS (to reset the unit). HK should have added a little pocket on the side of the carrying case to hold a paperclip. All of our vehicles now have paperclips onboard. It is not the end of the world, but it does get annoying once in awhile.
Regarding the seller:
I contacted the seller over and over agian since the GPS broke and they have not responded at all. I highly recommend NOT BUYING ANYTHING FROM THEM. Any company that I do business with that does not even have the decency or common courtesy to reply to repeated attempts to contact them is not a company that I would ever do business with again. If someone else had this happen to them, and they seemed reliable, I would not have purchased anything from them. I wish I had known. I guess I am out of luck.
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 Very Bad Service and Easy to Have Quality Problem! Jan 21, 2009
It is a very bad GPS. First, it can not locate the best traffic route and alway let you go much far away. Second, it is very easy to die, such as no signal on the street at all or keep locking and can not open at all. Third, their service is very bad. No phone was be received when you call them. When you write emails, Mr. Le will reply you soon and agree replace another one for you. Their shipping is fast. But the replaced GPS is very old (nicks back) and can not work too (keeping locking). Never buy this brand GPS, Trash!
 Okay, but you can do better.Sep 18, 2008
I bought this GPS because it does what my girlfriend's doesn't, play music from the SD card while navigating. This was something I required due to not being able to hear the GPS over the radio. So, I just plug the head phone jack into my car stereo to reroute the sound. While it works I have been unable to get the play list to work even after extended e-mails with tech support. This is a major issue for me as it makes listening to things like audio books impossible. If all you want is a music shuffle this issue will not affect you.
I also live in Michigan where we have a unique road feature we call the Michigan left, this is, as far as I know, unique to Michigan. In order to turn left you either go past and make a U-Turn on a small connecting street or go right and do the same, no turns at the actual intersection. The GPS-510 seems to be hit and miss when you need to do a Michigan left. The problem is that normally this is on two or more lane roads and being in the wrong lane is a big issue as you can't make a left and need to make a right.
The girlfriend's Magellan GPS is more granular for directions, if there is a possibility of you going the wrong way it will tell you where you need to be, to include navigating a clover leaf interchange. This GPS believes that once you are on the right road you will stay there until it tells you otherwise.
I have found with both GPS units that for local trips you probably know a better way to go, either due to traffic flow or light timings.
 Good for the price Sep 16, 2008
Paid around 160 for this.
Pros :
Good screen size, Media and Traffic capabilities
Cons :
Couldnt get map icons to work
No user manual at all in the pkg(couldnt find it online too)
Screen too sensitive to touches (double clicks very often)
Froze once (had to press the hard reset button) in the first few weeks of usage
Takes a min or two to latch on to satellites.
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