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We have collected 2 reviews of the Mio Navman 575. Experts rate Mio Navman 575 6/10. Reviewsor.com helps you find reviews, best prices, user reviews of the Mio Navman 575 and Mio GPS.
Simpler, smarter navigation. That's the promise of Mio's latest range of Spirit sat-navs, represented here by the range-topping Mio Navman 575 (also known as the Mio Spirit 575).It has a huge 11.9cm display, built-in IQ Routes and LearnMe – a Mio-derived technology that helps the satnav adapt to your driving style. Hang on, IQ Routes?Yup, Mio is now using TomTom's IQ Routes technology to help give you the optimum route for your journey, the aim being to help cut your travel time using driving info gleaned from thousands of other sat-nav users. You can find out more about how it works on TomTom's IQ Routes webpage. It maybe a bit 'me too' for Mio to include it here, but frankly anything that makes driving around the UK road network easier is a blessing – no matter where it comes from.Straight out of the box, the Mio Spirit 575 impresses. It's dominated by a widescreen display, which at 11.9cm is almost 1cm bigger corner-to-corner than rival models from TomTom and Garmin. It's clear and bright too, making it easy to read even in bright sunshine. Unfortunately that's clouded by its relatively low display resolution of 480 x 272 pixels – which is almost less than half the screen res offered by some rivals.
The Mio Navman 575 promises '', and with its 4.7-inch screen, traffic info and IQ Routes function, it should help you get wherever you need to be with the greatest of ease. Apart from the larger and easier-to-read screen, the Mio Navman 575 is exactly the same as the Mio Navman 475, which is in turn identical to the Mio Navman 470, but with and a traffic-info service as standard rather than an optional extra. Confused? Basically 575 = 470 + big screen + traffic info. I therefore recommend you look at the Mio Navman 470 test as a main point of reference, and here I'll just outline what's different in the Navman 575. The Navman 575 has a more modern and stylish design than the Navman 470, although it's still not a patch on the higher-end Spirit Flat. It's relatively well finished too in spite of its hard and unflattering plastic casing. This GPS is comparable in size and weight to similar models on the market at 14 mm thick, 132 mm wide and 160 g. In comparison, Garmin's latest models (nüvi 1390T, for example) are around 16 mm thick, 122 mm wide and weigh 162 g; whereas the TomTom XL Live is slightly larger at 27 mm thick in the middle, 123 mm wide and 185 g. The basic technology is the same as the Navman 470, with a 2 GB internal memory storing maps of Europe.