Customer Rating: 
Summary: Navman ICN510
Comment: I have had this system for a while now and yes it helps with getting from A to B. On the whole the unit is very easy to use and looks good.
The downside for this product is that it doesn't use full postcode just the first part eg pr2 3, which then means you have to type in the street name and make sure you select the right one. Another problem with the system I found was the volume wasn't very loud, I enjoy being able to listen to the radio with the window down and the noise of the traffic ad radio made it a bit hard to hear the satnav at times. Also when telling you to turn I found it didn't give much notice and a lot of the time you would be at the point of turning when it told you to turn, so you would then miss your turning and then it would recalculate the route and again you would miss the next turn as it was a tad slow at doing it. The latest maps that are available are 2006 as Navman don't update the ICN series anymore and as you can guess a lot has changed since then!
But a great model if you really don't want to spend a fortune on a satnav system that quickly out dates itself.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Throw the ICN-510 out of the window
Comment: I have tried valiantly for 2 years to use my Navman ICN-510 sat nav and have now given up and bought a Tom tom which I should have done 2 years ago. My Navman was very unreliable at picking up the signal - sometimes it would pick it up straight away, other times I had almost completed my journey before it located me. The maps were out of date, in some areas quite severely. I was driving along the M4 in S. Wales on a stretch that has been there as long as I have and my sat nav was telling me to "Go to nearest road". It also refused to recognise the house and street I live in despite the fact it has been there 100+ years. The post code and street name recognition was limited and I had to look at maps to find roads near to my destination to input those as my destination.
I tour the country a lot as I work in theatre so I thought the POI database would be very useful. It would be if it had any points of interests other than pubs and restaurants on it. I bet Manchester never realised it had NO theatres!!!!
The route recalculation at times was laughable. Travelling from Chelmsford to Scarborough is quite straight forward approx 150miles if you go north to the M11 then A14, A1 and A64. So why did my Navman insist I had to go south to the M25 then over to the M1 and refused to change that route until I was on the A1, north of Peterborough. It was suggesting a route of 300miles!!!! The insistence of the sat nav to "turn around when possible" for approx 60miles does get very tiresome.
Some aspects of it were good. The holder stayed attached to my windscreen quite happily - something my Tom tom holder is not so good at, and it was a neat and nice looking piece of equipment but other than that I have to say the ICN-510 has been an absolute pain and I have spent more time arguing with it than is probably good for my health.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Very good - if used correctly!!!:)
Comment: Right, the Navman 510 is one of my favourite sat-navs because of the price at the moment. Cheap as chips!
But the SmartST software and the navigation software is a nightmare to use. Slow, inaccurate, out of date, difficult to use...
HOWEVER the Navman is simply excellent because there is a load of good stuff you can do with it. If you know where to look.
This runs on Windows CE so if you know where to look, you can make a few erm..."alterations" to improve the unit. The word "unlock" springs to mind for some reason... Put it this way, after a couple of hours I didn`t need to buy another unit by any other manufacturer. But I test and repair Satnavs so I still do...
Anyway, overall. Navman 510 standard software is a nightmare to use, but there is so much more potential in this unit. Now read this again very carefully...
Hope I helped
PS...If you already bought one of these and you hate it, you have NOT bought a lemon, so don`t worry
Customer Rating:
Summary: Help Please
Comment: Hi, I bought a Navman ICN 510 from someone. It's very silly of me but I took it home and I can't get it to work.
I only bought it as I'm going to be a dad for the first time really soon and I need it to take my new baby to see family around Scotland.
The unit powers up ok but the maps don't work.
If i take the card out it shows "Reloading Maps" but I can't search for any addresses or anything.
Do I need the cd with or or software for the computer to make it work?
I really need help!!!
I've tried to contact the guy who sold me it but he's ignorng my calls.
Help!!!!!!!!!!!
Customer Rating:
Summary: Not a good review
Comment: I have run Tom Tom on a PDA and was fed up with a seperate aerial and poor battery and rebooting issues (problems with PDA). I thought this unit would provide the solution to all these problems and give me a current map.
1. The Menu is poor and has too many layers (eg. changing to night colours takes 3 levels, vs one on Tom Tom)
2. The aerial takes a long time to get signal unless you are on route. It almost can't cope with an off-route signal. Therefore getting quickly switched on and on to a new route seems to take an age.
3. You cannot re-route easily if for examlple your route is blocked by traffic and so you have to go through endless "do a U -turn now" no alternative route or road blocked options
aarghh!
4. when you've been stopped on route the algorithm seems to think all possibilities are plausable and doesn't take into account the direction you were previously travelling in, so takes time establishing direction which if your in a city you can miss your turn, as it figures this out. double aargh!!I'm returning mine, TOM TOM is more expensive for a reason.
