Mio C230 Digiwalker Sat Nav System | Expert GPS Reviews
June 16, 2008
Mio Digiwalker C230 GPS System is the ideal one for you, if you want to make your travel easy. It can even acquaint with a child in no time. It has intuitive Mio Map Interface, which sports large and easily identifiable on-screen icons. At 89.6 x 83.68 x 22.68 mm in dimensions, weighing just about 144g and clad in a metallic grey sleek design, is it not a midget of your choice? Perhaps that is why it just can be handy at any modes, be it in a car, a bike or in pedestrian mode. You will find in it a lot more stunning features that are not familiar with other low cost widgets.
C230 Digiwalker can help you evade the tone and voice prompts and enter directly into the world of Text-to-Speech that usually comes with those high priced contraptions. This programme enables it to provide you with advanced voice guidance highlighting the names of the streets or roads you are likely to make a turn as well as the directions through a decent integrated speaker.
Something more about its screen is that it is very much an anti-glare touch-screen so brightly backlit. An automatic adjustment programme for better night viewing makes it smarter. Mio C230 GPS Navigator also includes an explicit map that covers the whole of Western Europe for you. You have the options of 2D or 3D displays for your convenience along with an elegant auto-zoom of those areas where multiple roads intersect.
With Mio C230 Digiwalker Sat Nav System, navigation is simply a doodle.
- It can aid you in planning the fastest, the shortest or the most comfortable route of all, in accordance to your choice.
- It can also help you in taking an ideal route of your choice, avoiding hassles like ferries, toll roads, motor ways etc.
- In the U.K., the C230 Digiwalker can assist you with a full 7 digit post-code search.
- And just don’t forget that it is driven by a SiRF Star III receiver that receives signals from as good as 20 satellites to provide you the most accurate information.
- It holds permission to give you audio and visual accounts of fixed and mobile speed camera locations for a span of one year after which you just can subscribe to that.
- Points of Interests, it can accommodate a lot! Say thousands. Almost all the hotels, tourist spots, restaurants, filling stations and nightspots that are rated the best in the U.K.
Source of power
The power comes from an 800 mAH Li-ion battery that can hold charge up to 2 hours.
Warranty
A promise of 2 years warranty from its parent covers the Mio Digiwalker C230 portable sat Nav system, commencing from the date of the first purchase.
The parent
You know well that C 230 Digiwalker is the ward of Mio, who originated in Taiwan Korea in 2002, entered the European and African markets in 2004 and today adorns a dais that rooms the five toppers of the handheld GPS world market. Its elder sibling, Digiwalker 168, hogs the credit of being world’s first PDA with integrated GPS in Taiwan and S.Korea. So ponder on the C 230 Digiwalker the next time you go out in hunt for an ideal sat nav system.
Technical Specification Details
| General Features | |
|---|---|
| Brand | Mio |
| Model | Mio C 230 digiwalker |
| Maps included | Full Western Europe coverage |
| Mapping display | 2D and 3D |
| Screen size | 3.5″ |
| Memory Total Capacity Free Space Internal Type Expansion Type |
1GB - No SD/MMC card compatible |
| Battery life | 2 hours |
| Weight | 144 g |
| Dimensions (L x H x D) mm | 3.54 x 3.3 x 0.94 |
| Portable or fixed | Portable |
| Warranty | 1year |
| Additional Features | |
| Touch screen | Yes |
| Searchable postcode digits | Yes |
| Spoken audio directions | Yes |
| Dynamic routing | Yes |
| Points of interest (POI) | Yes |
| Live traffic information | No |
| SiRFStar III GPS Chipset facility | Yes |
| Multimedia Features | |
| Music | No |
| Photos | No |
| Video | No |
| FM Transmitter | No |
| iPOD | No |
| Accessories | |
| In car charger | Yes |
| Windscreen mount | Yes |
| USB cable | Yes |
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