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Paddycakes
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Paddycakes
Joined: 05 May 2003
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 Posted: Tue Jul 29, 2008 4:25 am Post subject: |
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Bump...
Anyone got this thing yet? Care to let me know if it's any good. |
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blackjack
Joined: 04 Jan 2006
Location: anyang
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| Posted: Tue Jul 29, 2008 7:32 am Post subject: |
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| your link sent my anti virus crazy and as I am using opera that is impressive |
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Paddycakes
Joined: 05 May 2003
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| Posted: Tue Jul 29, 2008 8:50 am Post subject: |
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that's odd. I'm using Firefox and I'm getting a warning screen when I click the link.
I've noticed a lot of Korean websites are now generating these kinds of warnings. |
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DCJames
Joined: 27 Jul 2006
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| Posted: Thu Jul 31, 2008 1:07 am Post subject: |
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| Most of the GPS / Navigation systems on the market now have English menus on them. |
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pacificman
Joined: 31 Jul 2007
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Fri Aug 01, 2008 8:49 pm Post subject: |
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| DCJames wrote: |
| Most of the GPS / Navigation systems on the market now have English menus on them. |
Really? I just bought the Gini navi system from Hyundai Mobis, because I used it extensively last year and was reasonably familiar with the (all Korean) menus and layout. This is a newer model, I'll have to dig through the screens and see if I can find a menu language setting. I have learned a few new Korean words, however....
One reason I was wary of the English ones, is that I can barely spell Korean placenames (or regular words, for that matter) in Romanization. I'd be afraid I couldn't find my destination if I had an all-English system. |
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silverquill
Joined: 12 Aug 2009
Location: Cheonan, Korea
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| Posted: Fri Mar 12, 2010 6:02 am Post subject: MAPPY GPS |
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| We're going shopping for a GPS this weekend. We've been told the Mappy GPS is a good one with English voice option. The maps can be switched from Korean to English, but search is in Korean only, which makes sense. If one is driving in Korea anyway, one should have the basics of Hangul and simple vocabulary, at least. mappy.co.kr is the official website, but do a web search for some reviews in English. I'll let you know how we make out. (Of course it has lots of bells and whistles, too!) |
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darkjedidave
Joined: 19 Aug 2009
Location: Shanghai/Seoul
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| Posted: Mon Apr 26, 2010 5:20 pm Post subject: Re: MAPPY GPS |
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| silverquill wrote: |
| We're going shopping for a GPS this weekend. We've been told the Mappy GPS is a good one with English voice option. The maps can be switched from Korean to English, but search is in Korean only, which makes sense. If one is driving in Korea anyway, one should have the basics of Hangul and simple vocabulary, at least. mappy.co.kr is the official website, but do a web search for some reviews in English. I'll let you know how we make out. (Of course it has lots of bells and whistles, too!) |
Did you end up buying a GPS? If so, which one did you buy and how do you like it? Thanks |
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conyo
Joined: 16 Apr 2010
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I was told the Hyundai GPS unit uses business phone numbers to get an accurate location of where you want to go.
I guess all these business cards I have been collecting will actually help me out. |
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sendittheemail
Joined: 15 Oct 2008
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I don't know about this latest Daewoo model, but I have the previous Daewoo English version, and it's horrible. Sometimes it takes up to 15-20 minutes for the satellite to pick up your location. The software crashes often, and I've had to take it in for repair 4 times.
For those of you thinking of buying an English unit, I'd recommend instead to go with the most highly rated Korean language unit. You really don't need to be fluent in Korean, or even half-fluent to operate them. You just need to be able to read basic Korean, punch in address numbers and then press the 'enter' button, from that point forward it's mostly visual anyway.
My Korean is far from good, but I've been happily using Korean GPS software for a while now. I regret paying the 500,000+ price for the older Daewoo English unit two years ago. |
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