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Mio Knight Rider 4.3-Inch Portable GPS Navigator | 
 enlarge | Brand: Mio
Category: CE
Buy New: Too low to display
New (4)
Avg. Customer Rating:  5 reviews
Color: Black
Media: Electronics
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: Yes
Native Resolution: 480 x 272
Display Size: 4.3
Includes MP3 Player: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 5.6
Dimensions (in): 5.5 x 3.2 x 6.9
MPN: MIO-KITT300
Model: MIO-KITT300
UPC: 841881004363
EAN: 0841881004363
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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| Features:
| • | Preloaded U.S. and Canadian Maps with no PC-Map data download have you up and running straight out of the box. | | • | Turn-By-Turn Voice Navigation, featuring the original voice of K.I.T.T. allows you to keep your eyes on the road and still get directions. | | • | Knight Riders voice syncs with lights, move every time a navigation greeting, or a navigation voice instruction is given. | | • | Voice greeting: Ability for user to change name in greeting (KITT recorded voice files with 150+ male & 150+ female user-selectable names) | | • | Easy and intuitive Point Of Interest search helps you locate over 4 million gas stations, restaurants, hotels and more - quickly and easily. |
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Product Description
KNIGHT RIDER GPS BY MIO
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| Customer Reviews:
one cool GPS September 27, 2008
15 out of 16 found this review helpful
My Knight Rider GPS arrived the other day (9/25), and I have to say it is everything I'd hoped for. From the way KITT's voice greets you on power up, to the LEDs flashing on the sides when it talks, just fits perfectly. While the voice sounds a tad bit drier than the original KITT, given the actor (William Daniels) has aged 20 years, it's not surprising it isnt perfectly identical - still sounds like KITT though, no question.
I like how the position on the map is indicated by a little graphical KITT, rather than your typical arrow or circle. Gives it that extra little awesomeness you'd want from a Knight Rider based GPS system. Everything else your average GPS has is part of this package, it even has some extra options like subscriptions to traffic cam alerts.
My only complaint is that the map scrolling via manual touch leaves a little to be desired - it is not as smooth or easy to use as my previous Mio product (Digiwalker 168), but it still works OK. It also has plenty of greeting names in the database to choose from, tho it may not have everything you'd want, supposedly you can update it with more later on. The GPS has internal memory as well as an SD expansion slot.
All in all this is a great product, and fits perfectly with my Firebird, which while white, still looks enough like classic KITT ;) ... maybe its time for a paintjob.
 just ok October 27, 2008
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
This has a nice look and cool gimmick with the KITT Voice from Knight Rider.
As a GPS system .... eh ... I'm not sure how often Maps are updated around the U.S. for GPS Systems or if they purposely send you a Old Map with your system so you will have to purchase a new Map right away!?
I live in the Knoxville Tn area and at least for me around here the System is missing a lot of existing streets that have been around for quite awhile now.
So most of the time when i'm driving around town to see how this thing works It will tell me that i'm not on a street ... to go to the nearest street.
Also when i put in a address to go somewhere across town... it tells me to turn right onto the Freeway ... which would usually be ok ... IF THERE WAS AN ENTRANCE to the Freeway at that spot!! .. It's a road that drives under the Freeway that is way above and there was never an entrance there before.
So I can't really trust this GPS System to give me correct or fast directions when it doesn't know when a road doesn't have an entrance to a interstate or doesn't even know that some roads exist ..
On the Mio website it says they are gonna give away free 2009 maps ... So i'll wait to see if that fixes the problems... If Not ... This was not worth the money ... So we will see
Also the way they have set up how you plug the System in your car when it is slid into the bracket is awful . The plug and cord is just fine when not in the bracket but when it is slid on it gets stopped by the way it is set up and I constantly have to be messing with it while driving ( which of course is dangerous ) and pushing it back in so it will charge.... It doesn't fall out but it gets jarred just enough by little bumps so the charge light will go off.
Another Update : After using this for awhile and testing it out everywhere I go , I am just really disappointed with this Item!
Like I said above , The KITT voice and the size of the screen are an awesome aspect to this system. But can't be trusted on directions as a gps system !!! Testing it out all over the city I live in I obviously know where I am going so it hasn't gotten me lost or anything. BUT when I type the address I want to go to it will start me off just fine and just when you think it is working out just great it will try to tell you to take a turn that is impossible unless your car can fly!!! For instance : I take an exit off the interstate , I go to the right off the exit , this is a one way street that loops around and merges into a main street that is of course not a one way anymore. The gps tells me to take sharp left as traffic is looping in the main street !! Heck Yeah .. that WOULD be the fastest route !! If humanly possible or legal. And like I stated above ... if my directions happen to cross paths with an interstate whether it has an entrance or not it will tell me to turn on it even if it's 500 feet above me!! I knew I should have bought that darn Helicopter !!
 Knight Rider GPS Navigator November 23, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is a great little navigator, especially for the price. Easy to read screen, simple instructions. I previously thought this might be a cheap product, but it has never led me astray and has always been very accurate. You can program it to address you, using a wide list of pre-entered names (although some I have never heard of) and the red scanner, which activates every time is speaks, is enjoyable eye-candy. The map is usable in either two- or three-dimension and gives plenty of detail for the surrounding area. I also like that it can display current time, time to destination, and vehicle speed. It can also be programmed to dim the screen automatically at night, a great feature which reduces distraction.
No KITT navigation voice October 31, 2008
0 out of 5 found this review helpful
The Mio Night Rider is very good GPS and has excellent features.
But I was somewhat disappointed with female voice during the turn by turn navigation. I thought the navigation voice would be the voice of KITT.
KITT = solid buy December 1, 2008
the product works exactly as described and includes the wonderful voice of KITT. everything looks and works just fine. the only issue I have with it is the battery life - but that applies to any product like this.
OVERALL= great buy
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