A good audio-visual unit, but lacks too many essential features
Oddly bulbous in the rear, Sony’s sat-nav offering looks like a miniature
Trinitron TV.
Sony’s pedigree in the audio-visual department shines through here; the 3.5in
LCD screen was bright and sharp and sound quality good.
Apart from this, we weren’t that impressed with the Nav-u. It might be a little cheaper than average, but it lacks some of the basic features we’d expect from a sat-nav device.
For example, there’s no memory card slot for expansion, and only UK and Ireland maps are included. You’ll have to fork out about £120 for the rest of Europe and transfer them from a PC to the unit.
Full postcode searches aren’t possible, either; and the device failed to find one of our test addresses, suggesting that the map data might possibly be out of date, too. On the plus side, the NV-U50T comes with a lifetime’s worth of free traffic updates.
This article is part of a group test of satellite-navigation devices.
See also:
Garmin Nuvi
310
Magellan
Roadmate 3050T
Medion
GoPal PNA465
Mio
Digiwalker C510E
Navman
N40i
Navsure
300i
Novogo
S700
Sony Nav-u
Nv-U5 0T
TomTom One
Europe
ViaMichelin
X-950T
When sat nav goes
wrong
Galileo
project
A table of features can be read via our pdf download above.
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Good points
Free traffic alerts
Good screen
Clear sound
Bad points
Bulky
No SD Card slot
No European maps
No post code support
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