June 28, 2006
Sony NAV-U50 Satellite Navigation System – A Review
It was not shocking or surprising news when the world came to know that Sony has entered the field of satellite navigation systems. Without hesitation you can say that like the other Sony products, the new Sony satellite navigation products are at its best. Sony’s new global positioning systems or in short the GPS satellite navigation products have made a sweeping impact on the minds of the people especially in UK. The new model of satellite navigation system from Sony has been made with the best used of technology and also with style. The new Sony NAV-U50 satellite navigation system introduced by Sony stands as the best among all the other GPS products of other reputed companies.
The technology used
The new Sony NAV-U50 is a Personal GPS Navigation System which has a touch screen of 3.6 inches measured diagonally and has a display resolution of 320 x 240 pixels. The Sony NAV-U50 supports a built-in flash memory of 512MB and also has an in-built aerial to receive the satellite signals along with a 12 channel receiver. The Sony NAV-U50 also speaks out the route and gives the correct directions. The Sony NAV-U50 speaks in a number of different languages like English, German, French, Spanish, Dutch, Italian, Portuguese, Czech, Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, Finnish, Polish, Greek and Flemish. The Sony NAV-U50 gets the power for itself with the help of the built in Lithium-Ion Battery which lasts for almost 4 hours. The Sony NAV-U50 supports a 2-way separate speaker systems with a tweeter and a woofer. It also supports the display of maps in either 2D or 3D views. Exciting features of the Sony NAV-U50 is that nearly 75000 points of interest are stored in the device which include restaurants, accommodation, entertainment, petrol stations, parking, ATMs, airports, sports etc., the list is a long one. The Sony NAV-U50 comes with the complete road map of UK, Republic of Ireland and Paris which makes the product highly useful for those in these areas. Also the best part of everything is that the Sony NAV-U50 offers faultless Traffic Message Channel information and also re-routing around heavy traffic is done very efficiently by the device.
The best always from Sony
What more the weight of the Sony NAV-U50 is just 310 grams which makes it possible for you to carry it along with you even when you walk. It comes in a beautiful silver colour and also in a very stylish design. For all those who really love driving and wants to make driving more interesting and exciting, then the new Sony NAV-U50 is the best choice. You get the correct and complete route or your journey with the Sony NAV-U50. With Sony NAV-U50 there are no chances that you go the wrong way and the best is that you don’t have to search a map yourself to find the route, Sony NAV-U50 does everything for you.
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August 2, 2007
kenneth thomas backshell :
Sir, I purchased my NV-U50 here in southern Spain where I live and have been trying out the unit over the last few days.
basically I am very pleased except only for two points -
(1) The map is only for Spain? and this was not made clear when purchased the product by looking at the box where several times during the year I need to travel through France over to England.
(2) The map keeps highlighting to me that the version is over a year old and therefore may not be accurate and in my personal trials I have prooved this to be the case, for instance …
In my area of southern Spain many new roads and additions have come on stream for at least a minimum of 12 months, The map in some instances shows me driving through a potato field with the road going away and disappearing to the left or right.
Apart from worrying about the reaction of the Farmer and having spoken to the shop where purchased (a famous chain of shops selling exclusivly car auto parts)with regards to a possible update disk I was told that they had no knowledge of such a system and that I should contact your goodselves to resolve possibly both the above problems. Thanking you in antisipation kenneth