Mio C310x Review

The Mio C310x is a pocket sized device which combines potable GPS navigation with MP3 player. The Mio C310x is the perfect travel companion. Wherever the road ahead takes you, the Mio C310x makes it easy to get where you’re going.

Mio C310x Design
One of the most striking features of the Mio C310x is its stylish design, which invites you to take the device with you no matter where you’re going. Completely self contained and ultra portable, the Mio C310x slips easily into pocket or purse and truly adds a new dimension to the concept of portable navigation. The Mio C310x is also easy to use; large, easy-to-read icons, a bright 3.5-inch display, and a user-friendly touch screen make it simple to set your destination.

The Mio C310x weighs only six ounces and measures 4.33 x 2.76 x 0.79 inches (W x H x D). Under the hood, the unit features a WAAS-enabled, SiRFstarIII GPS chipset for extreme accuracy, 1 GB of onboard ROM and 64 MB of RAM, as well as an SD/MMC card slot for memory expansion. The Mio C310x connects to your PC via USB, and the included lithium-ion battery lasts up to five hours.

Mio C310x Navigation
The Mio C310x comes complete with preloaded maps of the entire U.S. (Alaska and Hawaii included) to make sure that you’re up and running right away. You also get a huge database of preloaded points of interest (POIs) so you can easily locate restaurants, hotels, gas stations and more. The Mio C310x guides you every step of the way with clear voice instructions and user-friendly menus in 16 languages, including English, French, and Spanish.

Entertainment
To make sure your road trips are complete, the Mio C310x also features a full-featured MP3 player. Great for listening to your favorite albums or audio books while you’re on the road (or on the plane before you get on the road) the Mio C310x MP3 player boasts a number of customized EQ settings, a built in speaker and a 3.5-millimeter headphone jack. And for the ultimate in convenience, you can use the integrated SD memory card slot to easily carry your music collection with you.
Mio C310x User Said:

I’m writing this review after getting the Mio C310x for Christmas at a steal price (200 bucks - 50 mail in rebate), using it for 2 weeks in both familiar and unfamiliar areas, loving it, and then reading negative reviews that are just plain wrong on features etc that people say are missing.

A) My Mio C310x included ac adapter, car adapter, usb cable, 1GB memory, suction cup window holder as well as piece that allows you to attach the suction cup to a dash board. I have heard that some newer units may no longer include an ac adapter because this was a mistake. The suction cup holds VERY tightly yet somehow by pressing a button on the holder is also incredibly easy to transfer between vehicles. I have already done this.

B) The Mio C310x does come with short initial documentation to get you started but a full manual completely explaining every feature comes on the included DVD. It is easy to use and understand.

C) You CAN save your own points of interest, you CAN create POI subgroups in the MY POI folder (I have my gf, friends, and “favorite fun places” for example). If there is an existing POI that you want even more easily accessible by putting it in one of your groups (thats what my “favorite fun places” created group is for), you can find that POI, then click the POI menu, click “New” and create a “new” POI at the very same location and put it in your list. YOu can even name it the same as the existing one if you want (i.e. you find an existing Wawa and want to put it in your own group you find the Wawa and create a new place called “My favorite Wawa” at the address and put it in your group). Easy enough. Could have had a feature that just said “add to my x group” but this isn’t much harder. Also, two destinations (Preset as “Home” and “work” but readily customizable) are always super-accessible from the first screen.

D) You CAN play the MP3 player and listen to navigation at the same time; it pauses the music to give commands.

E) You CAN route from any address to any other address for trip planning’s sake. just find the starting address, click “Start” find the other address and click “Route to”. Then you go to your itinerary and can see the whole route, and do any other routing options (changing paramerters, fitting the whole route to screen, seeing the ETA, distance, turn by turn, etc)

F) Once you route to a destination, if the cursor is still at the destination start driving and wait a few seconds, after a bit, the screen will go back to your current position. YOu don’t have to “Lock” or “Unlock” or anythying like that. I’ve done this numerous times.

G) The Mio C310x is VERY quick at rerouting/recalculating. I can’t imagine faster. I used this feature recently when there was traffic on the highway, pulled off, this thing got me back on the highway easily and past the traffic even though I was unfamiliar with the area.

H)The automatic night colors/day colors feature is very cool.

I) The fast flyby feature is in fact broken or something. That is one annoying thing, you have to do the slow flyby (or not do it at all). I do hope they fix taht. Still you can do essentially teh same thing by going to itinerary and “show”ing each step.

J) The Mio C310x DOES have a “History” feature unlike what one person said. You DON’T have to keep retyping the same city in if you have put it in the past five times. Go to “Menu,” “History.” Viola. Moreover, if you go to the “Address” menu, the first step is choosing a city. The most recent cities you have chosen are also already displayed there.

K) I haven’t tried windows down yet but the volume to me is very loud if you want it to be. I’ve been what I consider to be blasting my music on my car’s cd player and could hear the unit just fine over the music.

L) The fact that the Mio C310x does not pronounce the street name to me is insignificant. The Mio C310x always tells you very clearly on the top of the screen the next road you will be turning on. All it takes is a glance. Plus I have heard that many units that speak names frequently butcher them. I’d rather have an accurate name right there on the screen. If anything, I do not find it to be a negative. It is certainly not a feature worth an extra 300 bucks.

Overall I have been truly impressed with the unit. There were a ton of features on it I didn’t even expect or know about. It has been very accurate, and I’m sure will get evenmore accurate with the map updates coming up. I live in NJ. I couldn’t be happier, and knowing that I got all of the features of a 500 dollar unit for 150 makes me even happier. I would buy Mio C310x over others unless you’ve actually compared another unit to this one head to head using them (for instance having friends with them) and can actually justify the other unit’s higher price for some reason.

Mio C310x Features

• Combines GPS based portable navigation with a fully featured MP3 audio player
• Large, easy-to-read icons, a bright 3.5-inch display, and a user-friendly touch screen
• Comes with preloaded maps of the entire U.S. (Alaska and Hawaii included)
• Preloaded points of interest (POI) database lets you easily locate restaurants, hotels, gas stations and more
• Weighs only 6 ounces and measures 4.33 x 2.76 x 0.79 inches (W x H x D)

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