Product Description

"Alpine's AVN systems are ideal for consumers who want a simple solution to integrate all of today's 'must have' digital entertainment and navigation functions in the car along with Alpine's legendary sound quality," said Stephen Witt, vice president, marketing, Alpine Electronics.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #138912 in GPS or Navigation System
• Brand: Alpine
• Dimensions: 12.00 pounds

Features

• Preloaded NAVTEQ® map data of the United States and Canada, including Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands.
• Four intuitive map viewing options, including 3D mapping, 2D full map, split map and turn-by-turn arrow view.
• Preloaded unique Points of Interest (POI), including restaurants, hotels and gas stations.

Customer Reviews

Most helpful customer reviews

5 of 7 people found the following review helpful.
Hoping for improvement
By disappointed
I have used the Alpine IVA-W203/P1 for over a month now. I really bought the system because it fits well in my Jetta TDI and provides a large display for the GPS. I don't really plan to watch DVDs on it.

About 80% of the time that I want to use the GPS functionality, the GPS system restarts after I agree to the conditions of using it. When I then pick a destination it hangs up during the calculation of the route. If I keep it in that state, a bit later the music from my iPod stops playing as well. To get going again I have to flip down the screen and reset the GPS. All in all annoying for what Alpine calls 'the best in-vehicle navigation and entertainment system'.

I also noticed that if I try to only turn the voice prompt for the navigation system off, the alert sound stops as well.

When I talked to the Alpine service people, the first things they seem to worry about is not that their product is faulty, but whether I bought it from an authorized Alpine dealer. After getting over this hurdle, they do acknowledge that there is a problem that probably will be fixed by a free software update they hope to have available in about a month (so I assume by the end of September).

I really want to like this system, so I keep hoping that the update fixes my problems.

UPDATE: Yesterday on a trip to Hanover PA going by Gettysburg, PA, the GPS system suggested at one point in time that (with the settings for the shortest route) that I still had 21 miles left to go and it would take about 30 minutes. After ignoring a turn I knew would not get me where I wanted, it suddenly realized that the distance was really 11 miles and it would take me only 15 minutes....
I am glad I knew the best way to get there, because the GPS would have completely steered me wrong. That makes that I can't really trust this system at all.

I am hoping that the update will fix this kind of problems as well.

0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.
BAD BAD BAD
By Hermes Andrade
If there was an option to give this system no stars at all, I would give no stars. Its the worst GPS Radio and just the whole system is terrible. The radio reception is the worst on any radio. The GPS cant even find my new job address. I have to say i did not buy this piece of crap. It came with the car I bought but I am really disappointed as it looks really nice in the car but its really the worst thing in the market. Don't buy it you will be disappointed.