We had the Mio C620 for review. Wow, what a machine! The first Mio to run iGO 8. That is MioMap 2008, since the guys at Mio built an own brand for the custom iGO’s, which is sure to help the brand, and in turn it’s not completely compatible and anyone who has already seen more than one navigation device can tell that this is only a clone. Then why is the, certainly not cheap, name-changing operation is needed? We will try to ask someone official sometime.

Of course there is no problem with that, lucky for the patients they usually don’t die during an operation, so there is no reason to be sad. When gathering information about the Mio C620, my first task was to visit the manufacturer’s national site, but I had to notice disappointedly that only the C520 and C720 are present – and this is not by chance. That’s because the protagonist of our review arrived from LCP Systems, they are the official national distributors. The explanation is very simple: in it’s current state the C620 only has a Western Europe map, obviously the version with our country’s map will be present in the manufacturer’s local offer.

The history book of the navigational industry is just a bit longer than the one entitled “A thousand years of German humor”; the history of Mio also began recently, in 2002. They’ve spent their first two years conquering the Taiwanese and then the Korean market, then as of 2004 they have arrived to Europe. From here the story is familiar: PDAs, PNAs, PDA-phone combos, huge success. It has become a worldwide known brand by now; approx. 1200 engineers are working on better and better solutions. The C620 is positioned in the center of the PNA (PND) product line, it’s packaging is the colored box characteristic of Mio, this contains the device, the passive holder, car charger, USB cable, user manual and a CD. Unfortunately there is no wall charger, so we have to use the data cable to feed our machine when not in the car.