Product Description

GPS receiver with built-in antenna, touchscreen controls, 20-gigabyte hard drive contains maps of the U.S., Canada, and Puerto Rico, SD card slot offers MP3/WMA/WAV and video playback, 3.5" diagonal color screen, mount, DC

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #61078 in Consumer Electronics
• Color: Black
• Brand: JVC
• Model: KVPX9BN
• Dimensions: 4.25" h x 6.41" w x 12.08" l, 3.30 pounds

Features

• Features a built-in antenna and full-color, 3.5-inch touchscreen monitor for viewing movies stored on the built-in hard disk drive
• Includes 15 GB of pre-loaded map navigation data for the United States, Canada, and Puerto Rico
• SD card slot lets you enjoy MP3, WMA, WAV and video playback, and view JPEP or MPEG4 files; three GB of personal file storage
• Dimensions: 12.1 x 6.4 x 4.2 inches (W x H x D); weighs 3.3 pounds
• Portable navigation system organizes 300 favorite destinations in eight groups

Amazon.com Product Description
The JVC eAvinu KVPX9B makes navigation easier and faster than ever before. This system features a built-in antenna, a full-color 3.5-inch touchscreen monitor for viewing movies stored on the built-in hard disk drive, a compact design for easy portability, and 15 GB of pre-loaded map navigation data for the United States, Canada, and Puerto Rico. The SD card slot lets you enjoy MP3, WMA, WAV and video playback, and view JPEG or MPEG4 files. You can also take advantage of the hefty database, which includes 13 million points of interest, like restaurants, hotels, hospitals, main attractions, and more.

Chock full of helpful features, the KVPX9B saves you time and offers you peace of mind while traveling. The multiple destination search function is ideal for vacations or any trip when you plan on visiting several locations in a short period of time, and the three-language male or female voice guidance keeps you on track. For added convenience, the KVPX9 organizes 300 favorite destinations in eight groups, with icons, and offers you three GB of personal file storage.

What's in the Box
KV-PX9B GPS unit, carrying case, suctioncup mount, cradle, dashboard disc, and cigarette lighter adapter.

Customer Reviews

Wouldn't even buy it for 100 bucks
PROS:
1. Solid build quality
2. Play video & MP3 (though I haven't used these features since I bought it mainly for the GPS functionality)
3. Good price (when it's on sale and when they fix all the bugs below)
4. Uses NAVTEQ map data

CONS:
1. Too thick and too heavy due to the 20gb hard drive inside
2. Too slow, everytime you try to move the map it reads the hard drive and then updates the screen, this process takes like 1-2 seconds and in computer terms it's a life time
3. You can hear the hard drive spin up & down, kinda ennoying
4. The POI feature sucks big time, you would need to enter a state and then a city first, what if you only know the name of the restaurant and don't know exactly what city it's in ???
5. There's no AC adapter, you would need to go to RadioShack and get one if you want to charge it at home and not in the car
6. It takes forever to LOCK on sat signal and this is even outdoors in the car driving, even when it locks on signal it would from time to time lose the signal, what good is a GPS navigator if there's no signal ???
7. It can get warm due to the hard drive
8. Update firmware requires a SD card not less than 128MB and not bigger than 512MB, nowadays people use 2GB cards so this is a big hassle
9. It doesn't display all the street names, only the one you're driving on and if you're lucky maybe a few other ones around your current position


In short, this is such a waste of money but luckily I didn't buy it online and the store I bought it from has a 30-day money back return policy, I also bought the Mio C310x at the same time I bought this JVC and the Mio is such a wonderful GPS, it beats this piece-of-junk JVC in each and every category (the mio doesn't play video unless you get the C710) and I paid 70 bucks less than what I paid for the JVC

Cannot catch the signal in Cities
I bought this unit just because it plays videos and it is inexpensive. I am not happy with the product. I used Garmin2610 before and this unit is inferior compare to Garmin. The major problem with unit is: "it doesn't catch the signal properly". I went to New York city and moving around all over the streets and it never get the Satellite signal. It only detected the signal on West Side Highway. Garmin didn't have this problem, it loses the signal in New York often but Not like JVC which never receive satellite signal. I went to Florida and I was not happy with it's perfomance.

This Unit Rocks.
I picked it up from CompUSA for $199.00 and it was up and running right out of the box. it actually gives you an overview/tutorial of the device as soon as you power it up and lets you select your timezone. It has different map view options and the display is clear. Touch screen is nice and the menus are easy to browse thru. lots of POI. I found starbucks in different towns and it displays phone # too. great storage space, 5 gigs allocated to music and video. SD card is detected easily and lets you increase the memory. its a little heavy and thick too, but so are some of the TOMTOM and GARMIN devices. overall and a great value for what I paid. I read on CNET that people had problems with this device and I did some more reading about it. JVC has a firmware update that fixes most of the problems. however, I havent had any problems so I havent updated my firmware.