Dprofy V3 Pro Review: The GPS Sold Me, the Speaker Didn’t

The Dprofy V3 Pro wants to be the last gadget you clip to your bag or stick to your golf cart: GPS distances, scorecard, shot tracking, and a booming Bluetooth speaker all in one magnetic unit. All that for $149 is not a crazy ask, on paper. I put it through the test on the golf course to see if it delivers.

The tl;dr? It does two things great, but the one red flag might be a deal-breaker.

The Dprofy V3 Pro does not offer full hole maps, so you don't get a satellite view of each hole to plan your strategy. What you do get is a green map with adjustable pin placement, plus distances to front, middle (or your adjusted hole location), and back of the green, hazard yardages, shot tracking, and a scorecard. 

I'll take that trade, and I suspect most players who don’t play new courses for the first time too frequently would, too. 

I'd rather see a number at a glance than pull out a rangefinder on every hole, and the V3 Pro's distances were accurate every time I checked them.

The auto-advance function also worked smoothly. I never had to manually flip holes because it tracked my position around the course, meaning the yardages on the screen were always the ones for the hole I was playing. That might seem minor, but if you’ve used other GPS map platforms in the past, you probably know that it’s not.

Here's the problem, and for a device that’s billed as a speaker, a potential deal-breaker. 

The speaker was great at home, but in my testing, it didn’t hold up on the course.

During my on-course testing, the volume kept fading in and out through my entire round. It almost sounded like when you get a notification when your ringer is turned off, except it did this constantly throughout the round and nobody was texting, calling, emailing, slacking, or trying to reach me in any other way.

So before writing this review, I dug into the issue. 

The problem wasn’t a weak Bluetooth connection. The speaker and my phone were less than a foot apart. It wasn't notifications either. 

Then I retested at home without running the GPS app and it played crisp audio. The second I opened the app, however, the fading started immediately. 

I brought this to Dprofy directly and apparently I was the first to report this issue, so I sent video of the issue so they could investigate it. That tells me this isn't a widespread issue, it's a bug on my unit that they're now aware of. I still don't know if any potential fix — if one comes — would arrive as an app update, a firmware update, or wouldn't be fixable on existing units at all.