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Originally Posted by MEP
Absolutely hate the navigation system. I'm constantly losing the signal, the address search is way too picky, and the routing is can be down right retarded.
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Absolutely agree, and the address search is a great point. When you can type "ikea near seattle" on the crappiest of android phones and have navigation in seconds, yet you fight for minutes with the BRZ to entire a fully qualified address, I reminded at how good google maps is. And yes, I know phones have the luxury of making server calls, but still.
When it comes to navigation, it seems like 50% of the time it's amazing, and the other 50% of the time it just loses all sanity for absolutely no reason and doesn't recover... it either keeps search for a signal while it shows me as stationary, or it just drifts off and never corrects itself.
I once set it up for a trip from downtown Seattle to one of the ferry terminals in Vancouver BC (more than 156 miles). In Bellingham, after 90 miles on the I-5, it thought I was in the mountains, 30 miles east of where I actually was. After restarting the car, it recovered perfectly. So bi-polar! Too bad there's no "reset GPS state" button for when it does start drifting off.
Even if GPS experience worked 100% like the factory expected, the software and hardware are junk. No multi-touch, a full second lag between touching the screen and seeing an effect, and the convoluted menus show just how dated the whole experience is. Today's free android phones are better.
There's just so many bad UI choicest with that unit. When you get a call, there's a hangup button, and a pickup button. Naturally, they make these the size of your fingertip and leave the other 98% of the screen unused. Oh, and they place them *right next to each other* so that if you miss by 1/4 an inch, you're going to hit the wrong one. This means that when you get call, you've got to put your thumb and pinky finger on the left and bottom sides of the unit so that your hand stays level with the unit (just in case you hit a bump in the road), aim your index finger properly, and then tap. Don't forget about the 1 second delay, so you tap, finally focus back on the road, hear the phone ring again, go bonkers trying to set up your hand again to make a second tap, and then hear it pick up. And they say hands free is safer :P.
Radio selection is the same story. You have 8 or 9 stations, all stacked vertically. So if you miss your tap by 1/4 an inch (say you hit uneven road), you're selecting the wrong one. Why not set them up in a 3x3 grid so that the tap targets are less error prone?!?!
I even took my BRZ in for that recall and it didn't seem to change anything with respect to the GPS experience.
Your mileage may vary, but it's one of the few things in my BRZ that feels half-assed.