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| Brand: Dash
Category: CE
List Price: $299.99
Buy New: $299.00
You Save: $0.99
New (2) Used (2) from $248.99
Rating:  155 reviews
Sales Rank: 1587
Color: Black
Media: Electronics
Native Resolution: 480 x 272
Includes MP3 Player: 0
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 2.8 x 4.8 x 4.1
MPN: 99-1000-001
Model: 99-1000-001
UPC: 892437002012
EAN: 0892437002012
ASIN: B0014CIBWC
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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| Customer Reviews:
Showing reviews 16-20 of 155
 Good idea, bad GPS. August 12, 2008
A. Pang (Los Angeles, CA)
3 out of 6 found this review helpful
I had the product for roughly 2 weeks, and used it on a daily basis to get from point A to point B. This product was purchased with hopes of escaping the dreadful Los Angeles traffic. To test the product, I tried driving from Santa Monica to Los Angeles during peak period, and was appalled when the GPS showed no alternative route to LA, except through the 10E. I personally think, the GPS system could use some massive upgrades. In another occasion, the GPS got lost when I was driving under the highway... one minute it shows me as driving on a local street, the next I would have somehow miraculously appear to be driving on the freeway right above my head!
Overall, good idea.. but I would not get the product until it has been throughly tested!
 Commuter Gadget August 9, 2008
S. Smith (Dallas)
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
Good for knowing traffic conditions on familiar routes. Confuses me out of town (missed turns) and few stored points (must connect to Yahoo). Prefer my old Garmin Streetpilot out of town. Garmin should buy this company and use their technology, but I much prefer the Garmin user interface. The subscription fee needs to come down.
 Unfinished but still a blast August 9, 2008
Brandini (Richmond, VA United States)
3 out of 5 found this review helpful
I bought the Dash two months ago an I have to say that I love it. It is a bit of a pain to mount and I ended up making my own for my Mazda 6 but for commuters in large cities it looks to be promising in its expandability and innovation.
Pros
-Search Yahoo from your car
-Send addresses from your browser
-Both live traffic and historical traffic patterns
-Support issues submitted from unit and elaborated at home online
-ETA based on real speed not speed limits
-Map updates included in monthly fee
-Traveling your routes frequently and it will create maps of traffic and eventually begin to suggest new routes if it thinks another will be faster
-The more users, the more road speed data and historical traffic (speed) data the better routing will get
-Can add customized searches from GeoRSS feeds and search nearby, near destination, along your route, or in another location.
Cons
-Routing not great but errors are usually glaring and by taking what you think is right will cause a recalculation and is then correct. Happens when road speed data is wrong or when map data is old, for me about 4 or 5 times.
-Volume level 8 is too soft and 9 too loud, wish there was an 8.5...
-$13/month after the first 3 months for connectivity.
-Screen needs better choices for road colors and route overlays, turns in 2d mode not highlighted.
-Traffic routing not perfect BUT it beats nothing and can save you in the chance you have road sensor data or another dash user ahead of you report in
For the price and features it's extremely hard to beat. It's more for a gadget person that wants to see it evolve over time with updates and features, not for the set it and forget it crowd.
Better than TomTom with More Potential August 9, 2008
Daniel Burstiner (NJ)
6 out of 8 found this review helpful
I have had the Dash Express now for about a month. I returned a TomTom Go720 after about nine months. I also have a TomTom Go300. I've been using GPS since I connected an external GPS to an old Palm Pilot more than 10 years ago. The Dash Express is the best of the bunch. While it's HUGE and clunky, it's worth the space and weight. It's also a little slow. It needs to offer weigh points and some other features but, overall, it's a great product. I use it in NJ, PA and DE most often. I make a regular NJ to DE run once a week. My trip has been shortened in both distance and time because I can take Rt. 95 and know if there is traffic or not. It had offered to re-route when new traffic data has arrived while en route. Dash seems to be interested in adding features users want not those manufacturers want. What an idea! Since it's a mesh-network type device with cellular and WiFi, the more of us there are using a Dash, the better the data becomes. So, my good review will help me if more people buy one. I'll never go back to a TomTom. It's like TiVo, once you are a TiVo user, watching "real" TV stinks!
 Spectacular August 7, 2008
Todd Troutman (Alabama)
6 out of 8 found this review helpful
After having Garmin's for many years and finally getting completely fed up with their multi-hoop jumping map updates and brain damaged customer support I dropped my Nuvi 660 on ebay and replaced it with the Dash. Dash has made consistent software improvements and responds to user feature requests, the device is twice as good now as the day I bought it.
It is just absolutely excellent.
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