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hey sorry to took a while to answer, been at the cabin and the closest thing to reception up there is AM CBC radio lol.
Il do my best to answer all your questions:
when you select "APP" and you select MAP it comes to a warning screen. when you hit agree the map loads almost instantaneously. No buffering or wait time. Takes about 10 sec to load a route and when you miss a turn recalculated very quickly. The POI database was pretty good. Found all the important things (like coffee). Where i live in in a small town i only really used it when i was in st johns. A couple of times it missed the spot and i looked up the address in my phone, punched it in and found it that way. I think it would be spot on in a larger city.
It locks you out from manually inputing data while your driving but you can push the voice button on the top l/h corner and verbally input the location. its a bit tricky but it can be done effectively with practice. i never installed but i uninstalled when i changed it to a kenwood nav unit. the GPS antenna goes behind the gauge cluster under the cover. The worst part of the unit and the main reason i removed it from my car was interfacing with my iPhone. I wouldn't play music from an app without opening youtube through the internet (not the app) clicking a video and the exiting and playing radio from the app (i was using the Edge in Toronto). Some music apps wouldn't work then. even after you got it playing the stereo would randomly come up "STOPPED". I would have to exit and go back to the internet youtube and try to get it to play again. It drove me crazy. for the money i would go with a aftermarket pioneer or kenwood or alpine. the CaFi stereo looks neat too. I noticed a significant improvement in audio quality with the kenwood 990HD over the stock unit (and i'm no crazy audio guy so it has to be a huge improvement for me to notice) Hope this helps. anything else let me know.
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