Mappy Mappy Mini GPS for Europe
August 23, 2008
Mappy Mappy Mini GPS System is a lightweight device that is quite sylish in its looks. It is very much a stand alone GPS system. This says that this Sat Nav system not only can fit cosily in a car to guide the driver to his desired destinations but also can be taken out for a walk or in any other public transport means to provide the user explicit route guidance. Moreover, this device can also assume the form of a gadget of entertainment with its inbuilt music player that realises MP3 file formats on an SD card.
Route Planning with this navigation device is par convenience as it guides the driver through; the fastest route, the shortest route, the most fuel-efficient route or the easiest route, as per his/her choice. Vocal guidance is provided in this machine. It further computes itineraries for public transport in more than two-hundred European towns apart from speed camera information that is regularly updated in the mappy website. This satellite navigation system holds the capability of warning the driver in case, speed norms are violated. Finally, but definitely not the least, this device presents TeleAtlas maps of as good as twenty-one European countries including the United Kingdom and Ireland apart from numerous POIs.
The display screen of Mappy Mappy Mini In-Car GPS System is 3.5 inches sized diagonally. This screen is of LCD TFT type and obviously, a touchscreen, the resolution of which, refers to 320 x 240 pixels. A built-in antenna serves the perfect back-up for the GPS receiver of this sat nav system. In the absence of any considerable on-board memory, this system very much depends on an expansion slot for SD cards of up to 2GB capacity. Finally, the Lithium Ion battery used in this GPS system provides up to three hours of life on a single charge. The weight of this gadget is 156 grams and its dimensions refer to 10.2 x 8.8 x 1.9 cm.
