ViaMichelin Navigation X 970T New Edition GPS System
September 4, 2008
The latest from the ViaMichelin courtyard, ViaMichelin Navigation X 970T Portable GPS System provides sublime navigation comfort apart from being easily installable in a car. This device is considerably small and light and its sleek design looks quiet stylish with its innovative graphics. A couple more attractions like the Bluetooth advantage that enables hands free calling as well as receiving and a built-in speaker situated in the base of the device that improves sound quality adorns this ViaMichelin In-car GPS system. Installation is simply child’s play as it asks for just a plug in to start operating. Apart from all these, an integrated music player of this device smartly plays MP3 files.
Maps
This GPS system from the house of Via Michelin offers a 1GB SD card pre-loaded with UK and Ireland maps. A different option here is to go for a 2GB SD card that holds Western European countries’ maps if the user’s premises do not limit in the UK or Ireland. A remarkable travel guide that provides address details as well as comments for every restaurant, hotel and tourist spot listed in the Michelin Guides ably backs up these maps. Scores of points of interest like car parks, service stations, local shops etc are presented in this device other than the travel guide’s contents. This GPS system also allows the download of routes and travel idea suggestions that appear in ViaMichelin’s themed events or Discovery packs.
Navigation
A feature of ViaMichelin Navigation X 970T GPS Satellite Navigation System that is quiet distinct here, is the real-time traffic information for as good as thirteen countries of the EU that comes for free. This facility warns the driver of accidents, weather alerts, traffic jams, road works, etc and is available for twenty hours. Further, this GPS navigation system allows user’s customisation of navigation too. Different features that substantiates this are - a motorway mode with automatic safe camera alerts activation, a follow my position feature that does not demand a destination, three best route selection, toll avoiding mode and car, bike or pedestrian mode operation.
ViaMichelin Navigation X-960 GPS System
August 25, 2008
ViaMichelin Navigation X-960 Portable GPS System is a dark grey gadget that is quite stylish in its looks. This gadget’s heaviness (or lightness) that is slightly below 140g along with its 10 x 7.7 x 2 cm dimensions explains its portability aspect. A base for windscreen mounting accompanying this device explains its car mounting ease.
Screen and Map Features
This ViaMichelin touch screen GPS system comes with a QVGA resolution LCD screen that is 3.5 inches sized diagonally. It refers to a 320 x 240 pixels resolution display supported by 65,536 colours. You can have 2D or 3D projections in this device’s display according to your convenience. This GPS system offers you SD card-loaded maps of UK and Ireland as well as European countries. These maps are backed by a galaxy of points of interest such as tourist locations (Michelin Green Guide), hotels and restaurants (Michelin Guide) and scores of addresses of convenience throughout Europe.
Navigation Features
Passing towns or tourist sites are notified in this system by engaging a motor way mode. You also receive up to date road-traffic conditions related information through the ever-reliable TMC. This device also provides safety camera alerts. Other significant navigation tips presented by this model are stage-by-stage navigation, realistic guidance by road sign displays, speed alerts when you exceed the limits, alterations in navigation mode and route saving. You can also track the fastest, shortest and the best hassle free route with this device. This device provides voice guidance in as good as 15 languages.
Technical Features
An integrated GPS receiver of the SIRF Star III technology fortifies the ViaMichelin Navigation X-960 In-Car GPS System. Operating system employed in this device is Windows CE.net 5.0 OS and the processor that prompts it is a Samsung 300 MHz processor. This gadget comes embedded with a built-in loudspeaker that apart from giving explicit voice guidance also renders quality music from an MP3 player that is another provision in this GPS System.
ViaMichelin Navigation X 980T New Edition GPS System
August 4, 2008
Via Michelin promises flawless navigation through a panoramic wide screen and striking visual clarity for their neonate, ViaMichelin Navigation X 980T New Edition GPS Sat Nav System.
Screen features
The extra wide screen of this device is 4.3 diagonal inches in size and offers the choice of the 3D view other than the conventional 2D display. The next junction, in this system is displayed with a zoom if you opt for its dual screen display aspect. Apart from these features, a tunnel mode is provided in this device to alter the brightness of the screen as well as simulate the route on the screen while travelling through tunnels. Finally, here you are provided with a cognitive interface that features advanced menu ergonomics as well as innovative graphics like smart buttons for the direct access of a petrol station in the vicinity or pictograms for indicating battery level, time and travelling speed. This interface is called the ViaMichelin Navigation 7 software.
Map Features
A 2GB SD card that contains maps of almost all the European countries barring the Scandinavian countries, accompanies this GPS system. The Michelin Guides that are renowned for their exclusive tourist sites, hotels and restaurant listings support the POI sector of this GPS device. You can also access the ViaMichelin website to download suggested discovery and tourist routes with a number of recommended addresses.
Navigation Features
Chief attraction here is the TMC feature of this ViaMichelin GPS system that comes by the name, real time traffic information. This feature warns you of undesirable traffic build-ups, accidents or road works ahead and does calculated re-routing for you in case you de-routes. You can also personalise navigation using different modes presented by this device like the motorway mode that details passing urban areas as well as tourist spots, stage by stage navigation that manages each journey stage unlimitedly and the follow my position mode that helps you to navigate without mentioning a destination. Here, you are also provided with the best three routes to your destination as the shortest, fastest and the most comfortable one.
Other Significant Features
ViaMichelin Navigation X 980T New Edition GPS Sat Nav System comes with an integrated music player that realises MP3 files. Another feature of significance that shrouds this advanced satellite navigator is its safety devices like audio safety camera alerts that render premonitions on dangerous bends or overtaking prohibition zones.
ViaMichelin X-950T Satellite Navigation system
June 9, 2007
ViaMichelin X-950T satellite navigation system is an excellent visual tour pack. The product is a GPS device that can be used for navigation in aircraft, sea 
boats, roadways and sometimes it even comes handy for commercial fisherman.
This satellite navigation system contains map cartridges and data cards that can direct very complex highways, risky railway tracks, cities and airport locations etc. You can download and get the more required map details from the computer by using GPS receiver.
There is a touch screen type user interface that allows you to interact with the device and it also features soft keypads. ViaMichelin X-950T satellite navigation system has liquid crystal display with TFT technology with the support of 65K colours. The display resolution of the device is 320 x 240 pixels. This screen delivers images with good clarity and brightness. The wide display screen has a size of 3.5 inches.
There are different voices that will guide you to your destination more effectively. It includes the pre set trip calculator that gives you the complete information like speed of the vehicle, distance travelled, short route and more. Another special feature of the device is the route recalculation feature that helps to recalculate the route if you go the wrong way.
PC interface supported by the device is the universal serial bus ports. It also has SD Card memory slot to store the data. This ViaMichelin Touchscreen GPS System is compatible with operating systems like windows XP, Windows 2000 and CE.
A lithium Ion battery gives power to the device and it supports almost 5 hour battery lifetime. This dimension of the unit is measured with its height being 7 cm, width as 12 cm and depth as 2 cm and it weighs about 0.1 kilo gram.
ViaMichelin X-980T Satellite Navigation System
June 8, 2007
ViaMichelin X-980T satellite navigation system can be your true travel friend that can take you to any place in the safest and quickest route. This in car 
navigation system is a hand held stand alone unit. The receiver type used in the device is a 12 channel parallel receiver that can receive signals from 12 different satellites at the same time. The chip set used in the device is SiRF star III chipset.
This handheld gps system posses a liquid crystal display colour monitor providing attractive visual effects with various colours and the screen display size is 10.9 centimetres.
Using the memory slot SD card you can store large number of data, route maps and other needed details like important cities, hotels, railway stations and airport locations etc. The device guides you to your destination with the support of clear voice and visual instructions.
ViaMichelin X-980T satellite navigation system includes a battery for power. The lifetime of the battery is 3 hours. There is a universal serial bus ports for connecting to other compatible devices.
The height of this ViaMichelin In Car GPS System is 8.25 cm, its width is 15 cm and its depth is 2.68 cm.
Since its weight is 260 grams, you can remove and fix it in any vehicles easily. The device is available in attractive and sleek black colour.
