Lowrance 112-362 iWay 500C Portable GPS Navigator and MP3 Player

Portable color GPS+WAAS navigation system shows you the way to any destination across town, or across the U.S. Pick your destination with the touch-screen display and the iWAY™ 500C automatically displays the best route, and gives you turn-by-turn directions with voice and visual guidance. Substantial 20GByte internal hard drive, with 10GBytes allocated to built-in, high detail mapping and 10GBytes reserved for MP3 music storage to be used with the built-in MP3 player!

Lowrance 112-362 iWay 500C Portable GPS Navigator and MP3 Player Features

Stores up to 5,000 MP3 files depending on compression rates and song lengths
Built-in precision GPS WAAS receiver with 12 parallel channels
Built-in 20 GB hard drive with 10 GB for maps and 10 GB for MP3 files
Combination vehicle GPS navigation system and MP3 player with 5-inch color TFT display

User Reviews about Lowrance 112-362 iWay 500C Portable GPS Navigator and MP3 Player

A friend let me borrow his last fall for a trip through Vermont and New Hampshire. I was amazed at the roads this baby picked up. I mean, out of the way, top of the mountain, dirt roads. And with a touch of a button, you tell it to take you back to the main highway and you're off. I recommend this GPS system 1000% -- Great GPS System - Amazing Accuracy

I have used my iWay 500C for the last two years and believe that I have gotten pretty good use out of it, but there have been some serious issues:

1. I bought this unit because it was waterproof and rugged (I mounted it on my motorcycle as well as used it in my car). However, the iWay overheats on a regular basis. During the summer in the car, it frequently warns of shut down, even though the temperature in the car is not excessive (air-conditioned).

2. The navigation database has some peculiar route anomalies and often chooses a less than optimum path. For example, I live about 15 miles from a main highway in rural Missouri and the iWay insists on a route to said highway that is over 3 miles longer. Even though secondary roads are paved and in good condition, their database appears to be treating some of these roads as no better than dirt tracks.

3. The software update process from 1.3 to 1.4 took over two hours and the unit worked worse and had more database issues after I performed the update.

I have decided to sell the iWay and have bought a Tom Tom One, which costs less than a third and works a whole lot better. -- This GPS is a mixed blessing