Well folks take a look at the feedback from JEverettL. This one may surprise you a bit because it’s not one of those everything was great reviews. It’s real and what happens when you take something home and try it out for real. Enjoy the review it’s great.

JEverettL says:
December 31st, 2007 at 10:15 pm eI received this product from BJ around two weeks ago. I won it as part of a drawing, and the stipulation was that I had to write a review about it. No problem at all especially for free swag! Only I conveniently forgot the writing the review part and shamelessly proceeded to re-gift it as a Christmas Present to my 8 year old son. Okay, i’m horrible at waiting, and surprises(and a whole host of other things) so I gave it to him and my 12 year old daughter three days before Christmas.

When they saw how cute Barry was, I got a resounding “HOW COOOOL!!”. I turned him on and my daughter proceeded to work the remote and his little wings started flapping. We where in my den at the time, so I decided to launch him while she controlled him. He flew, not like an eagle or a real bee, or anything like that. He flew, more like a bomb. All of that flapping never seemed to get him anywhere but the floor post haste! It had to be something we where doing wrong. We read the instructions on the box, and tried switching him from expert to beginner figuring that would lessen the learning curve. Nope, still no real flight to speak of.

I removed myself from that exercise and continued to let the children test fly Barry. After about 15 minutes they came back and announced that Barry still wasn’t behaving properly and his battery was dead. With the help of my 15 year old they found where to re-charge him, in an attempt to begin round two. Still nothing but dive bombing. We couldn’t get him to stay airborne for more than a couple of seconds at a time.

A day or so later I contacted BJ so see if he had any words of wisdom. There HAD to be some small detail I was missing. BJ advised me to toss Barry up first with his wings in full flap. Nope, no dice. He went up, then quickly found his way back to my floor. We tried this a few times, then Barry’s batteries died. After the re-charge the kids tried him again. Ahh, progress. He off the ground for about 5 seconds and actually flew from one side of the den to the other. That’s about as good as it ever got, and as long as he ever flew. It all went downhill from there. Now, Barry won’t fly, nor will he re-charge.

Hello BJ readers we wanted to bring your attention to the feedback left by one of our winners quepsi6.  quepsi6 was the winner of the MIO 320 GPS.  Please check out his comments below and let us know your experience with GPS units this holiday.   Thanks for everyone that joined the site and look for more great gadgets in the new year.

Remember BJ the Lab Monkey is the only site on the net where you “win the stuff we review!”

quepsi6 says:
December 20th, 2007 at 4:34 pm e

Well, I received the Mio 320 and I must say that it MORE than lives up to its review!! The minute I took it out of the box I was using it. The interface is extremely user friendly and I was able to figure out how to use it without referencing the instructions. It has a good size screen so I won’t have to worry about squinting to see directions. The day/night feature is definitely appreciated. I used a SD memory card to play music through the built in MP3 player, and I like it. Though not the same sound as I get through the car stereo, it’s more than adequate for my purposes. One thing that I was quite pleased about was the ability to upgrade the voice instructions to “text to speech” through a download I found on the GPS message board. Rather than hearing that I should “turn left in 500 yards”, it now says “turn left on Main Street.” That feature alone now puts the unit in a higher class for me!!!

The satellite link up is adequate, even though it does sometimes take a minute or so for the unit to recalculate the route. I haven’t subscribed to the traffic service, but I think it is something that I will do to see how well that function works.

Overall, this is a great unit, more than worth the price in the store. It clearly matches some of the other units in the same price range, and may even surpass some. Thanx again BJ!!!