The Mio Moov 200, which features text-to-speech lists, is just $199, and you can find it online for less than $130. But even among products with screens about 3.5 inches, there are several others that offer at lot more features and better value than the RT-300. For a $250 unit to earn a place on my dashboard, it needs a 4.3-inch screen, for starters. Overall, I was disappointed in the Jeep RT-300. As I was working with a preproduction unit, I decided to give the company another chance, but a second production-run RT-300 also failed to calculate the route from Cincinnati to New Jersey. Horizon Navigation said, after reviewing the error log I sent them, that there was an integrity issue with the unit's SD card. On all three tries, the device failed to calculate the route and locked up, requiring a reboot. While the RT-300 did calculate my test routes, I ran into a problem when I attempted to calculate a route from a location in Cincinnati back to my home state of New Jersey. Once a route is calculated, you can preview the route or simulate it. You can also choose to avoid freeways, toll roads, or ferries. The RT-300 doesn't support vehicle profiles but does offer the traditional routing profile for shortest time or shortest distance. You have a few destination-entry choices: city names, postal codes, or street names. There's also a smaller icon to take you to the map view, and another to exit the navigation program. The RT-300's main navigation menu has six large icons for the following functions: Go To, Edit Favorites, Setup, Trip computer, Home Address, and Office Address. Apparently, Jeep didn't do much customization of the user interface.- Next: Hands On with Jeep's GPS
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The device's software comes from Horizon Navigation (which, I discovered, has a default main menu identical to the one on the RT-300.
(all 50 states), Canada, and Puerto Rico-with six million POIs. The real bread and butter, however, is the unit's navigation system, which uses Navteq maps. As with most multimedia applications bundled with GPS devices, these players are fairly basic.
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In addition to providing navigation, the RT-300 is a photo viewer, music player, movie viewer, and e-book viewer. While I appreciate the number of controls offered, I found that the rubber nubs on the protective sleeve made manipulation of these controls difficult. On the right-hand side, there's a volume control and a power switch, as well as the external antenna connector and the power connector.
On the top of the unit, there's a button for power on and sleep, as well as a button that takes you back to the device's main menu. Unlike most GPS units on the market today, which have a minimum of hardware controls, the RT-300 has several. It measures 3.9 by 3.5 by 1 inches (HWD) and ships with a 780-mAh battery that is rated for three hours per charge. The RT-300 is built on a fairly standard WinCE 4.2 platform, powered by a 400-MHz Samsung processor. Would-be Jeep adventurers will also be disappointed by the lack of any off-road modes. I say "ish" because, while the RT-300 would probably absorb the shock of a fall better than a GPS without a rubber case, it lacks a waterproofing rating, for one thing, and that's a feature I think off-road types would surely want. The unit has a tire-tread-like, ruggedized-ish styling. The one feature that might go a little way toward justifying the price is the RT-300's nubby, soft, rubber protective sleeve. I found the choice of this 4:3, 320-by-240-pixel screen surprising-especially considering RT-300's relatively high price ($249.99 direct). While most navigation device manufacturers are moving toward 4.3-inch screens, Jeep has equipped the RT-300 with a paltry 3.5-incher. I'm sorry to report it wasn't worth the wait. Many months later, my review unit of the Jeep RT-300 arrived. While I'm normally skeptical about "branded" GPS products, I was willing to wait for the product to ship and give it a chance.
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