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1 comments about COBRA HH 38 WX ST Handheld CB Radio.

1. This is one of the better products for sale, although I do not know if it is made in China or not. If so, I want to know how many chinese use this radio? So far, as I live in the mountains of the North West United States, I have not witnessed it working a whole lot. There just is no traffic on the airwaves where I live, even with the outdoor whip antenna. So, I cannot tell you how it works, 'cause I have never heard anything but weather reports so far. I just make my decision based upon the name of the product. This is why it is necessary to protect your name as often it is all one has to show the world.

5 comments about Cobra Li 4900-2 Wx Vp Microtalk 18-Mile Frs/Gmrs 2-Way Radios.

1. Do not buy these two-way radios. We took them on a 2000 mile RV trip, so we had plenty of time to use them. We finally gave up and threw them in the glove box in frustration. The talk button is a soft button about 2" long, on the side of the unit, and unless you press it in exactly the right spot and at exactly the right pressure, it does not work. Maddening, to say the least.



2. These radios work great for the way we use them. We use them on a hi-powered station at Wal-Mart, the mall, etc. They did not perform as well on the low power stations. On hi power, they worked perfectly at Disney World. Even my wife admitted that these little radios came in handy. We are pleased overall.



3. Forget about the 18 mile range. These radios will give you 2 miles max - if that! Otherwise they are pretty good. Good voice quality and nice feel to them. The belt clips are really weak though. One of mine has already broken. Not really able to use the belt clips as they are too stiff. There is also a slight delay in voice reception so you should remember to wait 2 seconds after pressing the transmit and then talk. Nice charger and quite a few useful functions like the vibrate and weather radio stations.



4. I bought these radios for a cruise to keep in touch with my wife, they worked great. Before we left I tested them by having my son take them on a trip to the other side of town. We were each indoors and could still talk from about a mile apart. On the cruise ship, they always worked even when we were 9 decks and the length of the ship apart (and inside). My only grip would be, I would like to see the set come with two chargers so that if you wanted to permanently keep the radios apart you could. Otherwise, I don't think you can go wrong with these. They have many features, most of which you probably won't even need. The buttons are precise and well organized. The unit looks and feels like a quality item.



5. Bought these radios to use during a conference we hold where several of us have to keep in contact. The radios worked quite well, even in a larger facility with all kinds of other interference and even in areas where the other radios wouldn't.
   
   But as someone else noted, the belt clips are pretty worthless. They are not spring loaded, just hard rigid plastic that you have to carefully pry apart to get on your belt. I broke the first one just putting it on my belt the first time, and broke the other one later in the day even after being very careful with it.
   
   All in all good radios, as long as you don't mind carrying them in your pocket or purse.

1 comments about Standard Hx471S Black Hh Vhf - Communication - Vhf-Handheld.

1. I purchased this radio about two years ago, with an extra battery. I have used it on a sailboat here in Miami, and the radio has worked great. Good reception, and people can hear me loud and clear. It has gotten wet a few times, but no problems since it is water proof. In case of an emergency, it is good to know you can also hear airplane radio channels, as well as FM radio.

5 comments about Cobra Electronics Nav One 2500 Mobile Navigator.

1. I decided to try the 2500 after trying the 4500 and returning it (Why? I have no idea!) The unit is a small, but the interface is really bad. The 3D graphics are POOR! The unit does not tell you to turn when you are supposed to, at the actual turn, instead it beeps. If you are approaching a turn, it will tell you announce the following:
   "In 0.2 miles, turn left"
   When you get to the actual turn the unit just beeps, with no turn direction, so if you don't remember if you had to turn right or left when the unit announced it 1/4 mile back, tough luck. Look at the screen. The screen rendering is also bad. The unit I tested, when the route was claculated and displayed, all streets not on the route (side streets) were not displayed. Even though these units tell you to turn left right etc., sometimes two streets are close together and you need to glance at the display to see if you are turning on the first or second street. So if the side streets are not displayed, you have to guess which is your turn. Also, many times the unit will tell you that your destination is left, when it is on the right and vice versa. The maps are horribly outdated with many streets no longer in existance still being directed to. Also, a lot of streets already in existance for years are not on the system. Spend an extra $100.00 and get a Garmin Nuvi with text to speech turn directions and a whole lot of other stuff. Stay away from Cobra products. They make great radar detectors, but make horrible GPS units.



2. It's Simple To use and the voice is clear as a bell. It lets you know if you're turning left or right ahead of time so you're prepared and when you get to the exact spot for the turn it beeps. And... If it's so hard to remember what direction was told to you a minute ago, there's a directional arrow at the bottom left which points in the turn of your direction. If you miss your turn the system reconfigures to where you are and will direct you from there. Again, I like it.



3. I have had the cobra naveone 2500 for about 4 months now. I was looking for a lower end unit with a lot of points of interest and one that covers Canada and the US. Mine came with an ac adapter, 12 volt cord & windshield mount. Others have an internal battery power source that would have been a nice feature.
   As with many reviewers on other gps units this has similar flaws. In an area you are familiar with it seems to take you on round about routes at times to reach your destination. When you are in an area unfamiliar it will get you there.
   I mainly bought the Cobra because I heard it locked on to satellite fixes faster then some other brands. It will do this within 30 seconds most times.
   When driving through a tunnel it re-acquires the sattelite position in about 5 seconds when you have a view of the sky again. A couple of strange anomolies I have found occur everytime at the same locations. When driving on a Vancouver expressway in 2 areas the voice command tells me to exit but you can clearly see on the map its routing you off the exit, across the intersecting road and back onto the same expressway again. One intersection,the voice promt will always tell me, right turn ahead but the map and arrow indicate a left turn.
   Id say if you follow the map its 99% accurate, the voice command maybe 90% accurate so always refer to the map or turn by turn list.
   I updated the unit with Cobra the first week I had it. There were 3 updates issued in the time mine was manufactured and sitting on the shilf in the box.
   A Walmart store and the road into it that were built just over a year ago do not show up yet on the map.
   Another reason I chose this Cobra over the Magellan was that there customer service was good. Originally intending to get a magellan but once I started reading reviews , quickly heard nothing but horror stories about there customer service with Magellan.
   All in all the Cobra works well enough for me. It offers more points of interest stored in memory then most others in the price range and does aquire sattelites very quickly as I was told.
   I have read a lot of reviews from Magellan, Garmin, Tom Tom and other gps units and all have very similar complaints regarding routing and anomolies as metioned on my local expressway.
   I think gps units have a long way to go yet till they are 100%efficient.
   GPS units are not as good as I had expected but are still too valuable a tool to be without.
   I will be travelling across the US a couple times this year and will really be able to put the Cobra to the test.



4. If you travel the roads across the USA, please do not buy this unit. I am a professional truck driver, and I have had nothing but headache after headache using it. The GPS is too slow, so you are actually past an off ramp or exit when it shows up on the screen. It will take you off a major Interstate, drive through small town streets with stop lights, and then put you back on the exact Interstate it just took you off of. When it recalculates, it will freeze the screen, you cannot turn it off or change the touch screen, your only option is to unplug it. You have to watch the screen carefully, the voice command will tell you "bear right", when actually you go to the left, or it will tell you to turn when you make no turn at all.
   I could go on and on, I have updated it, returned it for a new unit, still the same problems, I paid way too much for it at a truck stop and they will not refund my money, so please do not buy this junk from Cobra.
   I only gave it 1 star because the software made me, if I could have I would have given it a -5.



5. Pros: Works most of the time. Will get you there.
   
   Cons: No internal battery, must be plugged in to be used. Slow. Unit shuts off for no reason. Some routes are definitely the long way around. Did I mention slow?
   
   I've owned the Cobra NavOne 2500 for over a year now. It is the first GPS system that I ever used. The unit is fairly easy to use, the menus are relatively intuitive with some quirks.
   
   In order to load a destination you must first pick a state then start entering the street address, number first. As you enter the street name the choices of letters on the entry screen adjust so that your chances of mis-spelling a name decreases, pretty good feature with the following glitch: the unit searches its internal state database as you're entering the name, in New Jersey, where I live it isn't a problem but when I travelled to Florida last summer it made address entry excruciatingly slow as the unit tried to match what I typed to its internal database. In some instances I thought the unit had frozen. After the street name is entered the unit then gives you a list of towns in the state that have that particular street name. Most of the time the town name is shown but sometimes you have to hit the "more" icon to get an additional list. It seems odd that the unit doesn't display all of the possible choices right off the bat. All of the previous destinations that you enter are saved. I haven't ran into a memory problem yet even though I have 10 addresses in the database.
   
   As with other users that have GPS units I checked its accuracy by using it around my area. Results varied WIDELY!! Most times it would find the most direct route and sometimes it would take me way out of my way. In looking at the wider map the roads that are the most direct route were in the database but the unit refused to go that way.
   
   Since this is the first GPS unit I owned I didn't realise how slow it is. When the unit is first turned on it takes over two minutes to start up then load the maps. When you make a turn that doesn't follow its instructions it takes anywhere from 30 seconds or longer to recalculate a route. In comparison, my daughter's Tom Tom flashes the new route in under 15 seconds.
   
   It's not a bad unit but there are better ones out there. I was surprised to see the price! Way too much for a unit that's a generation or two behind the times.

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5 comments about Cobra GPSM 2100 Portable GPS Navigator.

1. My Garmin 340C was stolen from my car and I took a chance on the Cobra. It works (sometimes) but software and graphics are far inferior to what I had gotten used to.
   
   On the plus side, some nice features like choice of a category and listing of all in that category in your area. The graphics, if you don't use the 3D version, are fairly good. And it's pretty sensitive in homing in on the satellites, even when you're indoors.
   
   But, the shortcomings leave me disappointed. For openers, when I set it for "home" in my driveway, it puts me on a street 1000' away that doesn't come into my area. So, if I set it with "home" as a destination, I wind up in someone else's driveway.
   
   The Garmin allows you to plug in a destination and when you let it calculate a route, it gives you mileage and an ETA before you start. Not so with the Cobra. Once you start, it will show an ETA but if there's a way to show the mileage to get there, I haven't found it. The Garmin "speaks" all roads you're directed to use. The Cobra "speaks" only Interstates but has a visual display of the names of all. Another annoyance is that the "zoom" feature keeps resetting itself to a larger area of display. May be a software glitch but not fixable by any of their downloads to date. Garmin offers all sorts of language options: Australian woman speaking with Finnish display; German man speaking with Spanish display, etc. But these are really gimmicks and not necessary.
   
   The Cobra is available for somewhat less than the Garmin. And it shows.



2. This is one of the most disappointing electronic devices I've ever bought. The unit works fine and for getting Grandma from one place to another it is a cute toy. I drive a tractor trailer and if any truckers are considering this unit, just don't. For one thing, the unit will not allow you to select an exit number on a given interstate as a destination. The exits are in the database, it calls off the exits when you have to use one, just doesn't let you find them. Truckstops are listed by interstate# and exit# (not street address) in the guidebooks. Also, very often industrial warehouse sites are not listed by street address and the unit can't find anything without a street number. I now have my old 2002 GarminV with it's outdated maps and impossibly small memory capacity sitting next to the new Cobra so I can use that interface to find exits and plan destination time estimates before moving (the cobra will not display eta times until you get to a spot where your next turn is more than a mile away). Very frustrating. I wonder if there are any parts sharp enough to damage my tire if I drive over it?



3. I tried to use the COBRA and was disapointed. We tried to look for restaurants and the three places we tried were not in the system. When we tried to enter a restaurant we knew was at a certain location, the COBRA did not recognize the place we were looking for. Also, the unit told us to go to the "highlighted street" after entering a selected restaurant but did not direct us (as a gps should) to the street. One street we were directed to was not an actual street and had rocks across the road so we could not drive down the street and had to redirect ourselves another way.



4. I bought this GPS for a trip from Maine to Florida. Although it took me on a good route through CT and gave me detailed info about upcoming turns, this thing took me through the middle of Washingon DC during morning rush hour. When I got to Florida, for some unknown reason this thing wouldn't tell me the next turn until I had passed the intersection. I'm better off with Mapquest.



5. i had gotten this as gift for my husband. he absolutely loves it and uses for long trips and occasionally for our short trips around the local area.
   
   his biggest kick is when he is taking a shorter and faster route to the main road and the cobra voice tells him to go another way.

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