Alpine NVE-M300P GPS Navigation System
February 1, 2010
While searching for a recently launched satellite navigation system in the market, I came across the new Alpine NVE-M300P GPS navigation system. Unlike the usual stand alone satellite navigation systems, Alpine NVE-M300P is designed to connect with an on-dash monitor or a media station. In other words, it is a GPS system with no monitor. You can connect it to any monitor, like the monitor of your music system in the car and then use it for navigation. If connected with the Alpine monitor, which is sold separately, you can use it with touch screen features. It provides a wide coverage across Europe, around 43 countries in Western and Eastern Europe. Besides a wide place coverage, it provides some handsome features as well.
Alpine NVE-M300P Sat Nav is a rectangular unit, with a dimension of 85mm x 25mm X 110mm and a weight of 265 grams. The CPU integrated into it is 600MHZ SiRF Titan processor and this makes the applications loaded faster. The GPS receiver too seems to receive signals faster, leaving no lag whilst calculating routes or re-routes. The system features a TMC tuner as well. Thus, you can have real-time traffic information, while on the move. Unfortunately, this service is not free in UK.
Alpine NVE-M300P guides you with turn-by-turn instructions and with street names spoken at each turn. The lane guidance ensures that you take the right turn every time. The maps can be viewed in both 2D as well as 3D perspective, and there is an option to zoom in and out for better visual. The destination search enabled in it is via the input of postal code. This GPS navigation system has a Track Log function, which tracks the roads you move. Safety camera database is loaded into it and the unit alerts you, when approaching one. You can import the data for points-of-interest, to guide you to near by hotels, theatres etcetera into this unit. The importing can be done to this GPS unit’s 4GB integrated flash memory via a USB.
Overall, Alpine NVE-M300P sat nav system comes with good features and equated performance. But the relevance of a GPS unit without a monitor is a thoughtful issue, especially when you need to purchase the company’s monitor to attach this.
Alpine PMD-B200P GPS Navigation System
December 28, 2009
Alpine, the dedicated in-car equipment manufacturer has some limited, yet unique launches of GPS Navigation systems. One among them is PMD-B200P GPS Navigtion System. This is a portable navigation device that could be integrated into the car dash for enhanced performance. It comes with a new Navigation software that provides the widest possible map coverage. It covers 43 Eastern and Western European countries.
There is a four inches wide touch screen display for Alpine PMD-B200P Portable GPS Navigation System. The resolution of 480 X 272 pixels provide a vivid and vibrant view of the maps and routes. Since the display has an anti-glare technology, the view under any lighting condition is stress free. The maps could be viewed either in 2D or 3D perspective. This makes the landmarks easily identifiable. The improved User Interface of this satellite navigation system makes it simple and easy-to-use. The applications could be accessed at a single touch.
Alpine PMD-B200P Automotive GPS System is equipped with a SiRF Atlas III GPS receiver with 16 channels and hence, no lag is met in receiving the GPS signals. This enables it to calculate the routes faster. Users can set preferences for the same. To elaborate, the routes can be calculated by method such as fast, short or economical, by the type of the vehicle such as car, bus, taxi, bicycle or pedestrain, or by the type of the road such as unpaved, permit needed, toll-roads, period charge, ferries or cross border. There is an auto zoom function for this GPS system that lets you to zoom the set routes for easy viewing. It can also demonstrate the whole route. The destination search can be done by the input of UK’s postal code.
The advanced lane guidance of Alpine Sat Nav enables you to take the right turn. It provides turn-by-turn guidance. This voice guidance can be set to be delivered in any of the 30 languages provided. Besides, there is an in-built TMC tuner for the device that provides the users with the information on the traffic ahead. This TMC service is offered for free of cost in 14 countries icluding UK. There is road safety camera database in it and this sat nav system alerts the user while approaching a speed camera. The driving speed is exhibited as map, so that the user can analyze it faster.
Furthermore, Alpine PMD-B200 Sat Nav can be linked up with bluetooth phones, which lets you to make calls handsfree. The phone book can be accessed faster from the main menu. This automotive GPS has some entertainment features such as a built-in music player and a picture viewer. Points-of-interest could be imported to the device. The flash memory of it is expandable using SD card. The audio quality is where it scores well. The integrated speaker, amplified speaker and stereo headphone contributes to this. Overall, Alpine PMD-B200P Sat Nav is a considerable choice, if you prefer an integrated sat nav.
Alpine NVE-M300 GPS Navigation Drive
August 1, 2009
Alpine has launched a new NVE-M300 GPS Navigation Drive that is a black box module, which has been designed to incorporate navigational functionalities to Alpine’s IVA-W55 (AV) and iXA-W404 head units. This Alpine NVE-M300 Automotive GPS Navigation Drive measures 4 3/8 x 4 1/8 x 1 inches in dimensions enabling it to be easily installed behind the dashboard. The GPS positioning helps in maintaining the accurate position of the vehicle’s location even in areas with difficult GPS reception like a tunnel or the areas surrounding high rise tall buildings. Accuracy is determined using satellite linked data and gyro-sensor technology (for direction determination). The accelerometer technology is used to detect the speed of the vehicle.
Alpine NVE-M300 GPS Navigation Drive includes some additional features such as a simple and easy to use graphical user interface, a text-to-speech technology and timely voice guided driving directions. It is equipped with large and bright icons enabling easy identification of commands. It also provides icons for One-Way Street and a highway junction view. This unit is preloaded with the Navteq maps of United States and Canada along with 6 million points of interests that consists of movie theatres, restaurants, hotels, petrol stations, etc. so that a user can locate their preferred spot with ease.
The Alpine NVE-M300 Portable GPS Navigation Drive provides the facility to plan trips with multiple stopovers by setting waypoints in between. You can even let the music tracks play while in the navigation mode. Destination details can be entered either manually or chosen from a history of previously travelled places. This device allows users get the facility to customise the unit by choosing a favoured colour scheme or set a preferred language out of English, Spanish and French. Overall, this is a unit which is compatible with your vehicle’s AV units that can take you to your destination safely and quickly.
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