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Magellan eXplorist 500 GPS Navigator

Magellan might be conscious of the pulse of the GPS market as much as any one else, if not more. Their adventures or innovations affirm this fact to the hilt. ‘No pressures of being a market leader, we are out to live up to our name’, seems their slogan.

Adventure renamed under Magellan brand name

The eXplorist series models cannot give a better definition for these devices are exclusively for the rugged and the toughest. Magellan eXplorist 500 Pedestrian GPS Navigator is the latest one from that line of adventure. Not necessarily, a car mounted type it has proved handy for the pedestrian adventurers as well as motorcyclists.

Navigate in vivid colour

The feature most highlighted by the Magellan Navigator. Position display done in 16-colour. That says one can watch his premises live in colour. An awesome thing accompanied by a backlight glow in amber gloss. On screen, options further divided into four such as Compass, Map, Locator and Satellite modes, to make things easier for the user.

Maps with Points of Interest

Built-in European basemap features important roads, waterways, tourist spots along with a range of points of interest like hotels, filling stations, service stations etc.

Ruggedly Built for the Rugged

Tough casing designed of impact resistant resin, further protected by rubber armour that also provides waterproofing. The casing, well designed to resist the extremities of nature confronted by an adventurer.

Navigation features

A spectrum of smart navigational features awaits the daring.

• High-speed USB Data port
• True fix technology for accuracy that is reliable to the maximum within 3 metres
• Fourteen parallel channel tracking
• The distances between various geographical points can be calculated in a jiffy with the area calculator device
• Elevation changes of accessed or prone to access areas presented graphically with the help of a programme called Vertical Profile
• Built-in antenna enables enhanced reception
• Joystick enables easy scrolling

Languages

MAGELLAN eXplorist 500 Portable GPS System is compatible to English, Spanish, French, Swedish, German, Italian, Portuguese, Finnish, Norwegian and Dutch.

Other Key Features

• File system made simple for the user to interact.
• Turn by turn routing enabled MapSend topographic maps as additional option through SD Cards.
• A PC application called Geo cache Manager, to download coordinates from the web.

Battery

Li-ion rechargeable battery (1300 MAH), enables 17 hours of uninterrupted use.

Conclusion

Obviously, Magellan has a penchant for adventure. MAGELLAN eXplorist 500 Satellite Navigation System forebodes a good time ahead for the hikers. Let the next watchword for the GPS market be adventure and Magellan, be the trailblazer. Was there an explorer by this name in the historical past?

Blaupunkt Travel Pilot Lucca 3.3 GPS System

Who is Blaupunkt?

A subsidiary of the renowned German giant - Robert Bosch Limited, Blaupunkt (Blue Spot is the word meaning), with its head quarters located in Hildesheim , Germany , is the European front-runner in the car radio sector. Today its employee strength is about 7500 hands all over the world and an annual product output of more than 500,000 navigation systems and 5 million car radios.

Blaupunkt Travel Pilot Lucca 3.3 Sat Nav System

The Blaupunkt Travel Pilot Lucca 3.3 Sat Nav System is a classic product coming in the line of the ‘Travel Pilot Lucca’ series, from the ‘Blaupunkt’ backgrounds. This Blaupunkt Sat Nav System comes accredited with a bundle of advanced features that still stands a rarity amongst its counterparts of the current GPS market.

Remarkable Screen and Map Features

• A high contrast, anti-glare LCD touch-screen of 4.3 format colour display.
• The screen size is 3.5”.
• Map features are enthralling. Full map coverage of the U.K. and Ireland comes pre-loaded and a DVD consisting explicit maps of another 21 European countries comes as a bonus package.
• Map display in 2D and 3D modes
• Traffic signs display
• Automatic junction Zoom
• Arrow Display
• JPEG, GIF and BMP picture Viewer. ( SD card accessed )
• Lastly and definitely not the least, the map shows City names, Street names and accepts the travellers’ destination input too.

Attention Music Lovers

Option for MP3 playback , along with WMA and OGG , via the SD card is provided in the Blaupunkt Travel Pilot Lucca 3.3 Portable GPS System.

Points of Interest

Thousands of Mio Points of interest displayed. Highlighting points like restaurants, hotels, filling stations, tourist spots etc by names of relevant cities.

Smart Navigational Properties

The navigational features in the unit further justify the sublime support rendered by the screen and map part.

• The axis - The ‘Dual Core Technology ‘ of Atlas 2, better known as the SiRF Star III receiver. The Blaupunkt Travel Pilot Lucca 3.3, inspired by this, displays an array of exceptional navigational properties.
• GPS Quick Finder for express quick, route calculation avoiding ferries, toll roads etc.
• Route planning sphere augmented with multiple stop locations.
• Voice mode, Route Guidance realized by an integrated loudspeaker, provides timely notifications of motorway and street numbers.
• Full 7-digit postcode entry in the U.K
• Navigation by house number, street name and number, enabled.

Speed Camera Alert for Speed Devils

The traveller can subscribe to speed camera alert (Navigon).

Battery and Warranty

Blaupunkt Travel Pilot Lucca 3.3 GPS Navigator comes with a rechargeable battery with a one-time charge-life of 3 hours and a first purchase warranty of 2 years.

Conclusion

The history of Blaupunkt substantiates the fact that, in the sphere of developing innovative products of quality, they have delivered more often than not. Yet this (GPS sector) is a field of cut throat competition. Surviving, let alone succeeding is really tough in the European market. In the circumstances, a product of this standard emerging from their premises can prove real morale boosting for the company. Blaupunkt will definitely find the Travel Pilot Lucca 3.3, a shot in their arm in this race.

ViaMichelin X-950T GPS System Review

Michelin - contributions to the European roads of the early 20 th century was actually an awakening for the world road concepts. In those days life was terrible for a motorist in Europe due to unmade roads and minimal road signage. There Michelin came up with a Travel Guide, providing useful information on the location of nearby service stations and garages and details of restaurants and hotels in each region as well. This was followed by the famous Michelin Green Guide in 1926 in order to alleviate the problems of the motorists that had resulted from a boom in the number of vehicles on the roads during the interwar years. As early as 1910, Michelin invented the signposts which can be seen on some French roads even today. It has been a long way since those and by the dawn of the millennium, it set up the ViaMichelin that in no time has become a chief European provider of pioneering services in the field of travel including the much talked about GPS satellite navigation service.

The ViaMichelin X 950T Satellite Navigation System is one of their latest entries coming with an array of remarkable features like the RDS TMC receiver, Live reception of road conditions and Traffic jams by-passed with the automatic course recalculation feature. These are the significant factors of the 950 T that enables it 24/7 practical traffic updates. And considering, the voice guidance come in 15 different European languages, clearly and precisely through a built in loudspeaker, should definitely make heads turn.

Remarkable features

Some other features of ViaMichelin X-950T Portable GPS System worth mentioning here are, a speed Warner, that alerts when speed limits are exceeded, a POI Warner that informs the arrival of a specified Point of Interest, display of road signs for easier path-finding, the multi-criteria-dynamic-search to look for a hotel or tourist spot of preference, a memory facility that saves and manages favourite addresses and also the last 10 destinations and last but not the least, a simple, user friendly menu.

It is also significant here that the Points of Interest aspect is near perfect with a distinct collection of scores of practical addresses, handy for daily trips and vacation trips including car parks, petrol stores, sports joints, food shops, local services etc. It is directly fuelled by the famous Michelin Guides. This user friendly  ViaMichelin GPS Systems comes with the full road and street network coverage for 99.9% of the population in the U.K. ( 35% in Northern Ireland) and the main roads and street level coverage of 6 main cities, (45.1% of the population) in Ireland. Its integrated GPS reciever boasts of the much sought after SiRF Star III technology. The processor is Intel 312 MHz, well backed up by a 32MB RAM / 64MB ROM. Software employed are Via Michelin Navigation 5, SD card with pre-installed UK and Ireland maps, Via Michelin Navigation 5 DVD-ROM. A 2 year warranty is indeed a bonus for this product.

Accessories

The standard accessories too exhibit the quality of the premium gadget. The accessories pack consists of a multi-purpose carry case, a car kit that allows easy installation of the device in the vehicle, a cigarette lighter cable that powers and recharges the device in driving mode, a main adapter, 3 styluses for navigation and a TMC aerial that enables the device to receive traffic information directly.

The ViaMichelin 950T with SiRFStar III GPS receiver is a quality that is very much one of the best in the related business in the current world, if not the best. Via Michelin’s services are continuously calculated by an independent body on the basis of accessibility rates and obtainability which rates it one of the best in the Internet world. It thus unites Michelin’s exclusive and renowned know-how in the field of maps and guides publication with constantly changing technological proficiency.

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