Sensonic N520 PND

First attempt by MCL in the PND market, a distributor more familiar with its low cost range of sensonic mouse. IT  is based in Subang Jaya, Kuala Lumpur

The device is powered by the traditional SiRF-A4 chips. It is using an ultra-slim casing. Thus limited the size of the battery. and The function of the speaker will be slightly soft.

It operated on Window CE and using a old user interface installed in most Cap Ayam brand PND. therefore, it is a proven UI!! The casing is also based on a "public mould" thus, it is not surprising to see the same products on the web.

Many beautiful promoter would like you to believe it is made in Taiwan and NOT China. In fact, it is made in Shenzhen, China. Then again, 95% of Electronic gadgets like PC, Iphone, Dell, HP are made by foxconn in SZ anyways.

N520 is also the first to use the OEM copy of Falome by SMap. This company is of course another shell  company setup by Maction. As the "x" series like X5, X6 of OEM software already being exclusively licensed to M3asia.

falome resembles the original "X3" except all the familiar icons have been re-arranged. Navi desktop is rather clustered. The layout is totally not appealing. So much so that the Goozee GPS by Clarion have decided to ignore it. That will be another stories.

N520 is loaded with older verion of the MFM map. While waiting for MFM to generate a new map, Maction decided to release a MFM map based on the latest April  data.

This caused an outcry from MFM leader. Subsequently, it was removed from their website.

With a retail price of RM599.00/RSP RM649. I believe it should be cheaper. Much cheaper.

My choice is still with Holux 62E at RM499.00

Trouble at MFM, malfreemaps.com

All is not well at MFM! The founders, Anthony Yong and some of the seniors members have decided to call it quit after a major disagreement with the releases of MFM-Papago map.

The founder is not new to controversy. There is even an anti antyong blog against him for whatever reasons. It just ain't pretty

http://stopthespinmfm.blogspot.com/

The blog seems a bit lame in reasoning. Clearly there is a conflicts of interests.

Looking back, He did come to his senses and didn't renew his contract with M3Asia. As you dig further, it is clear why M3Asia has an interest in MFM. M3Asia secured Papago distribution in Malaysia. Papago is just a navigation software. it is useless without a map. With Antyong working for M3asia, M3asia immediately solved its problems.

Antyong demonstrated some human quality when he discovered the his map only benefited one party. He has been misleaded. He and MFM have been exploited.

With MFM-papago free maps, thousands and thousands of Wayway and Papago being sold. The users and customers of M3 put an greater pressure for MFM to continue to provide weekly or bi-weekly map update. They are getting bold and demanding.

M3Asia is making huge profits out of MFM free map. MFM's forum also take care some of the support issues. That is marriage made in heaven.

Antyong could clearly see his map is out of control. Maction, the maker of papago created a new baseline version of X3 called falome for oem market. Unfortunately, Maction decided to generate their own free map without prior consent of MFM. Mactions also started selling MFM free map in their own online store at mobuy.com.tw.

The only right things for antyong to do is to stop the MFM released until the issues of copyrights have been resolved. Unfortunately, this has not gone down well with the rest of the users and contributors. who are just interested in the maps.

to be continue....

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