AT TIME UP PURCHASED WAS DIFFERENT AND OFFERED NEW THINGS
STRENGTHS???... CLARION GOT LOTS OF MONEY FOR A PRODUCT THAT DOESN'T WORK PROPERLY AND THEY ARE NOT TAKING RESPONSIBILITY FOR IT

NO SIGNAL, NO UPGRADE FOR NAVIGATION, NO WAY OF CONTACT CLARION CUSTOMER SERVICE.

LESS THAN A YEAR WITH THE PRODUCT A MESSAGE FOR AN UPGRADE WAS SHOWN, AFTER THAT NEVER GOT A SIGNAL ON NAVIGATION AGAIN.

I RECOMMEND TO FILE A COMPLAINT AT www.bbb.com THIS WILL BE ONLY WAY CLARION WILL TAKE RESPONSIBILITY FOR ITS BAD PRODUCTS.

DON NOT BUY ANYTHING CLARION AGAIN, DO NOT RECOMMEND CLARION TO ANYONE, THERE IS WAY BETTER COMPANIES THAT WILL DO THEIR BEST TO RESOLVE YOUR ISSUE

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FIRST AND LAST CLARION PRODUCT

Not many

Unrealiable, no support, no upgrades, bulky

For the price and overall comparison of other GPS systems I would have been better off buying a $100.00 system. I would not recommend this product to my worst enemy.

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TomTom

It can do some many things
Software upgrades are $99 with free shipping.

It is bright at night

This ia great unit

Has new maps now

at Horizon Nav

the software maker is selling maps now
at $99 with free shipping...

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Valor, DUAL and OEM

Large hard drive, mp3 player, large screen, ability to listen to music while navigating. Will get you to where you want to go.

So far, lack of updated nav software from Clarion. Inability to search for other addresses or points of interest while you have a route programmed. (route must be cancelled, however, the last 15 or so previous destinations are remembered, so it is easy to find.) It beeps every time you touch the screen, and there is no way to turn it off.

I purchased this unit on Ebay a little over a year ago.

Navigation: Large screen and multiple viewing options make it easy to see where you are. Annoying voice for navigation, which I immediately turned off. I haven't really experienced the navigation being slow or 'hanging up' once underway. However, one of the features of the unit is that it remembers where you last stopped. So, if you turn it off and drive across town or fly across the country, it can take several minutes to fugure out where it is again, which can be annoying.
Out of the Hundreds of addresses that I have programmed in, only a handfull were unable to be found. If it can't find the address, just put the original street, and find the nearest cross street, and it will get you pretty close. (it will give you a list of streets that intersect with your street of interest.) As far as the points of interest, there are a ton, organized fairly well in menus. The address book is reportedly large, however, it would be nice if I could merge my outlook into the unit, as the operating system is Windows based. (this could be possible, but I tried without any luck)

MP3: 10 gigs of storage for your music and pictures. Great feature. Built in FM modulator with several selectable frequencies allow you to find an unused station. When I first listened to mp3's through my car stereo, I noticed that it didn't sound all that great. The weak link is the FM modulator. Plugged directly into my home stereo via the RCA's, the sound quality is fantastic, so if you have an external input on your car deck, definetely use that.

Picture slideshow: great feature as well, although I did get an error messege after scrolling through a couple hundred pictures, but it was not a big deal.

Haven't used the satellite radio option or backup camera, nor do I plan to, but useful options.

Mounting hardware:
This unit is no tomtom, it is large and heavy, and the suction cup will fall off if you don't wet it before mounting. I found the best way to mount it is with the bottom of the unit touching the dash. Overall this unit is worth what I payed for it. I have not had any of the issues other people have spoke of regarding navigation hanging up, or mp3's skipping etc.

Good looking multi-functional unit.

Non-responsive technical support. No promised data upgrades.

Poor to non-existent technical support. Persistent Error message "KRI Shell out of memory" that cannot be corrected. Second unit has same problem in Photo file. No GPS data upgrade that was to occur in summer 2006.

NONE

every thing.

PLEASE no matter what the other reviews say I am telling you guys that this Clarion NICE unit SUCKS. It is the biggest piece of crap that I have ever bought. A total waste of money. For one, when I tried to down load mp3 files on the unit, the songs would skip and I could only here parts of the song. SO when I tried to erase the Mp3 files, thinking I made a mistake, all the maps and memory that is stored on the unit were also lost. Next the memory sucks. Dont plan on putting any pictures on the unit because there is not enough memory. Third the suction mount sucks. Fourth the map freezes up when I am in navigation mode and I become more lost than i would be without the unit. SO when I sent the unit out for service it took over a month to get the unit back. THe CLarion spport people had no idea about the unit and had to send me a refurbished model because they could not fix it. Please dont talk to "BEN" who works customer service because he is a liar and a bull"hitter. THey charge you extra money to send you a refurbished model that is probably going to do the same thing as the new NICE would. INstead of calling the unit CLARION "NICE" they should call it CLARION "Piece OF CRAP" I think I have siad enough and I hope you dont waste your money. You get the point.

Wide screen, You can put skipping mp3's on it, you can connect a rear view camera, can connect a dvd or video gameing system.

DEFECTIVE.

The Clarion N.I.C.E was nice at first glance its features are eye catching but its has lot's of down sides. at first it was so hard to find out how to work this thing, when we tryed to type somthing it would take away some letters and it will give you a street and if its not the rite street your looking then your screwed. When using NAVI it is slow and it is quite anoying when she says "turn at 500m" why can't it say "turn at street somthing" it has a very slow processor i put a few pictures in it and i put it on slideshow and after 5 pictures or so it said "out of memory" and it looked like Windows it had a cursor now i can't seem to get rid of that cursor. also what sucks is that you cant put photos that are over 1MB i suggest you keep it around 500KB or it might run out of memory. The MP3s skip in the middle of the songs. I do like the fact that it has sirius sattelite and that you can connect your dvd and video games to it but then agian it really isn't worth 900 bucks i am plaining on returning it and getting a cheeper one that WORKS! i don't suggest the clarion N.I.C.E DONT BYE IT hahaha.

Just the Looks!!!But don't get foolded

Suction cup is not well thought of, no tech people to talk to at the customer support, all they say is to send the unit in, which costs 20 odd bucks from NE.

Totally Unreliable!!! Clarion must not have tested this Unit before they started selling. The unit looses GPS signal constantly and when I was taking long trips, it was just a nightmare, would miss critical turns, caused a lot of stress and anguish. The unit compleatly stopped working after 3 months of regualr use, the GPS antenna won't just work. Had to send it in to Clarion Customer Support, where they dont repair these units, I am guessing they don't know how yet. They sent me another unit which I recieved last thursday. I am thinking this was a re-furbished model, now I planned a long drive for July 4, where I used this unit, again the same nonsense, the GPS signal is lost so often, I had to shut it off, boy was I glad that I printed out directions just in case.

What I am agiatated about is that this is one of the priciest Navi systems out there but the very reason of it being a Navigation system is screwed up, my friend has a palm based gps unit with tiny antenna, never looses connection. This thing by far has the biggest GPS antenna but still has major issues staying connected.

I would advise people to wait for Clarion to make some fixes for this unit. For the unfortunate folks who are like me, will have to still print directions just in case the N.I.C.E decides it does not want to be nice anymore.

BIG PIA!!!!

it is a grest unit, wide screen, clear speech and takes you where you want to go.

The mount sucks

I've used this unit both on the road and in town and thus far have had no problems. I really enjoy having it aboard.

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Great screen size; color and brightness

Persistent freezing of screen during trips makes it unreliable

Navigation screen Freezes during long trips; Causes it to be unreliable and to miss critical turns; this must be fixed.

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In car system with my BMW has no freezing and is much better