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 GPS Is the Best Part
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.
UX: Smooth Setup
I started the round in the app, then put my phone away entirely and ran the rest of the round off the device. That process was smooth too, no syncing issues or digging around to change something from my phone.
The mount deserves a mention too: the magnet locks onto a cart bar and does not budge. I would have no hesitation taking on a bumpy cart path.
The Speaker Cuts Out And I Finally Found Out Why
Editor's Note: Since the article was originally published, Dprofy released an updated version of the app, which eliminated the audio issue I experience.
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.
Final Note
The GPS is accurate, auto-advance is seamless, and the magnetic mount is rock solid. The audio issue is real and reproducible on my unit, but I can't tell you yet how common it is or whether it's fixable.
Right now, though, I'm judging the unit I tested. A golf speaker that can’t reliably play music while providing GPS distances is a tough sell. Especially in a product category that’s growing quickly. For a little more money, the Bushnell Wingman HD does everything the V3 Pro does — GPS, speaker, cart mount — and adds color hole maps, and has never given me audio issues.
If you're shopping this category today, it’s worth doing your homework to make sure the unit you get is worthy of every dollar you spend.
