Full description not available
J**R
Frustrating
This product takes a bit of getting used to. If you are used to the slick interface of a decent satnav, such as a TomTom or a Garmin, then this clunky thing is probably going to be a bit of a shock to the system initially. Firstly with how hard you have to press the screen, much harder than with most satnavs, and the fact that the exact point where you press the screen is not where it registers the press. So you think you are pressing on one letter and it selects another. Frustrating. Secondly in terms of sloppy software programming. So with a good satnav you can type in a postcode without a gap in the middle, for example, whereas with this one you have to type in the gap.When you are saving a location to favourites it will almost always put "unnamed road" as the name of the favourite but it isn't automatically highlighted, so you have to press backspace 12 times to clear the whole lot. With a decent satnav it would automatically be highlighted, so one touch of backspace would remove it all. Then when you're typing your name for the favourite (which you will never, ever call "unnamed road", let's be honest) and you put a space between the first word and the second, a decent satnav changes to a capital letter automatically. This one doesn't. All these little things add extra keystrokes so therefore add additional time and effort. A little frustrating if you happen to be in a hurry to reach your next destination, for example.Then there is the question of British Summer Time. You can change the system time on the device by one hour, so the satnav app is showing the correct time at the top of the screen, but when you load a destination then the arrival time is still showing an hour earlier than the time that you will actually arrive. If anyone has found an answer to this conundrum I would be interested to hear about it, as having it showing the wrong arrival time for 7 months of the year is quite frustrating. I have changed the boxes in the bottom right corner of the screen to show the speed I'm doing, distance left to destination and ETA, as the default settings didn't show my speed once I had keyed in a destination.One really stupid thing about this satnav is that when it is showing you the speed limit for the road you are on, it will never show you a speed limit higher than what you have told it is the maximum speed for your vehicle. Trucks in the UK are generally restricted to 56mph/90kmh, but if I tell this satnav that the top speed of my vehicle is 56mph then I will never know whether a road has a 60mph limit or a 70mph limit for car drivers. It would show the speed limit as 56mph in both cases. For that reason I tell it that my truck can do 63mph. That way it shows a 60 limit as 60 and a 70 limit as 63.I changed the voice from English to Australian, mainly because the English version incorrectly calls motorways "highways" which winds me up. There were a few other quirks with the English voice which tended to make me giggle. Most brits tend to think of the NEC as the National Exhibition Centre, whereas this satnav refers to it as the "North East Centre". Bury St Edmunds is Bury Saint Edmunds for most of us, whereas this satnav calls it "Bury Street Edmunds". Funny.The first satnav that they sent me didn't work properly, and it had a Hieha map loaded in it. Wherever I keyed in as a destination it would always try to take me via Huntingdon. So, for example, we are based in Northampton town centre and quite often collect from Sywell Aerodrome, which is ten or twelve miles away, depending on which route you use. Key in the Sywell postcode and it would tell you that Sywell was 78 miles away, and it would automatically route you via Huntingdon. When I complained they sent me another satnav, but this one had a TomTom map loaded in it, and the mapping worked properly. Whether they are selling seconds off cheaply in the UK, their maps aren't very good or their products aren't very good I will leave you to decide for yourself.When you pull out the cigar lighter adapter power cord from the cigar lighter, a Garmin satnav will tell you that it is turning off in ten seconds, giving you the choice of forcing it to stay on or allowing it to turn off automatically. If you pull the cigar lighter adapter out with the Hieha satnav, it tells you that you have plugged it in. When you plug it in, it tells you that it has lost power. Very strange. If you try to exit the navigation app by holding down the power button on the top of the tablet, you are likely to have a load of pop-up messages telling you that it doesn't have enough system memory and to add more memory. The power cord that goes from the cigar lighter to the tablet is a cheap, shoddy product and it failed within a couple of weeks of me receiving the satnav. So I've been using my Garmin power cable instead and it has lasted me over 18 months so far.When you key in a new destination it seems to guess the first turning. It has a 50% chance of getting it right but it seems to generally get it wrong. When leaving my depot if you turn left it takes you into the town centre, if you turn right you are heading towards the M1, both northbound and southbound. So 95% of the time we will turn right in the morning and head towards the M1. 75% of the time this satnav will tell me to turn left out of the depot. When you have keyed in a new destination it will quite often lose the GPS signal. Whereas the Garmin satnav would say “searching for satellite” and remain mute, this satnav issues loads of random and incorrect directions such as “turn back where possible”, “turn left at the junction then turn immediately right” and so on when you are quite possibly trundling along a main road with no junctions for miles.It also seems to think that more than half of the industrial estates in the UK are areas where trucks are banned, so will keep flashing up an annoying and persistent message, accompanied by warning sounds, telling you that you aren't allowed to drive a truck in that area, even though you are generally surrounded by hordes of artics at the time. The speed camera setting gives far too many audible warnings and becomes really distracting, especially on smart motorways with a lot of speed cameras, so I ended up turning it off completely.There are some things that I like about this satnav. Most of the time, providing that you follow the route that it has selected, it won't take you under bridges that are lower than the height of your truck. If you force it to make quick decisions by not following the route it told you to take it might do, though. It does like trying to take me under a 10' railway bridge in Stoke on Trent next to the DB Schenker/Axiom depot, but I assume that's down to the TomTom map, as it happens every time. It quite often tries to take me along roads with a 7.5 tonne weight limit, but you can tell it to avoid a road immediately ahead or tell it to avoid a specific road. This is quite useful if you have traffic updates and hear that a road is blocked ahead.This is quite a large display, and I like the colours that they use. Screen glare is definitely a problem due to this being a large flat tablet, and a sun visor isn't included. I ordered a sun visor for it and that helps a little, but screen glare is still definitely a problem. The other thing that I like about this satnav is the price. Bearing in mind that a truck satnav by one of the “big names” can cost between two hundred and three hundred pounds then this comes in at a much more reasonable price point.I still can't really recommend this product as it is quite frustrating to use. If you don't very often need a truck satnav, maybe you go to the same customers all the time and only occasionally have a new destination, then maybe this is for you. I always have to carry my Garmin car satnav with me in the truck, just in case this one screws up. That's not really an ideal situation to be in. So I like this product more now than I did a year ago, but I still can't recommend it.
B**9
Hieha 7" Truck GPS....... bought for Towing caravan.
As caravan satnavs are extremely expensive,I thought I'd try a truck satnav.... having looked at quite a few reviews on various 'trucknavs' I opted for this incredibly inexpensive Hieha 7" truck GPS.....not really expecting too much,but at under £34 I thought "worth a punt"... on arrival I was amazed by the quality of packaging,and on opening,the number of accessories that came with it.... The satnav itself looks and feels quality with an abundance of features (if that's what your looking for)....I however wanted a satnav that I could enter the length and width and height (plus some 'just incase' inches) of my car/caravan combined.... The first time I used it properly it stopped me from travelling down a road that I had previously checked out on google earth.....The next day I drove down that same road minus the caravan, and the road had obviously been altered since the google camera car had travelled that route,and was "absolutely not caravan friendly"...so for me the 'trucknav' did its job by preventing me from entering an unsuitable road and providing me a safe alternative route..... having only used it a few times I can't say too much more on its mapping reliability,but for me....I'm pretty confident in it's capabilities now..... Note... This is a large satnav that looks pretty much like a very large smart phone.... The one weakness that I've noticed is it's poor battery life (around 30 mins) but if you plug in the 12v car charger lead (supplied) it's not an issue..... and all for under £34.... amazing...... ps.. Not tried this yet,but map updates are available online..... If I was asked if I'd recommend this satnav to anyone.....I'd have to say yes......
J**D
good bit of kit
when i saw this i thought someone was having a laugh with price.had it 6 months used daily and sadly on/off button stopped working an this is the only disappointment, contacted amazon, returned and refunded within a week. excellentoverall this in my experience is a decent bit of kit (i ordered another one)update. other one i ordered i have sent back. think they may have a bad batch of batteries, as after 90 mins use it stopped working. it was plugged in and was not charging. it went off and has not charged since. other users have reported a similar problem with crashes, screen freezes and not being able to turn it back on.its a shame coz when it works its a decent bit of kit never had problems with low bridges, picked them out every time. no problems with postcode id and found it very accurate when it came to locating delivery points, in more than one case, right to the gates however it did misguide me once in a backwater location in norfolk: north walsham a town which is famously surrounded by 14 foot bridges and only 1 road in. it wanted me to go down an hgv restricted road an it did cause me some grief. but once in 6 months int the end of the worldfittings for screen and air vents are good and reliable, never fell offelectric caables worked fineUsb cable too short though for cab use on a merc actros 25/43 63plateoverall a good bit of kit,
Trustpilot
2 weeks ago
1 day ago
