GPS, Location-Based Apps, And Everything Else Navigational
Random header image... Refresh for more!

Category — NDrive

NDrive G800 GPS Gets Reviewed

by Justin

NDrive G800 GPSWith a 4.3-inch widescreen and 8 GB of memory, the NDrive G800 is the latest automotive navigational solution from NDrive to hit the UK market.  With a full range of non-navigational offerings including Bluetooth, ebooks, video, games, image viewing, and music playback, the NDrive G800 seems to have it all but it does have its quirks.  The touchscreen interface uses relatively small icons and letters on its QWERTY keypad making for an unattractive, plain looking screen and ackward typing.  The device also doesn’t offer support for full UK post codes, instead rather strangely requiring you to type in half of the post code and then a full road address after bringing you back to the tough-to-use keyboard to generate a route.  Supposedly a high-end model, we don’t know why NDrive would make this feature so difficult to use.  Maps, from TeleAtlas, are fairly easy to read though a little plain and perhaps the G800’s best feature is its use of aerial photographs for navigation when not using maps.  Unfortunately only a select bunch of UK towns and cities are covered by the aerial images and outside of the UK, select cities in Portugal, Spain, Italy, and France are covered.  While the NDrive G800 GPS does offer a bunch of useful multimedia features, it lacks real-time traffic support and combined with the poor usage of routing from UK post codes may not be the high-end purchase you’re looking for.

via pocketlint

[del.icio.us] [Digg] [Facebook] [Google] [Mixx] [Reddit] [StumbleUpon] [Technorati] [Email] More »
Sphere: Related Content

May 21, 2008   No Comments

NDrive G280, NDrive G800 GPS Navigators Feature Real-Life Photomapping

by Justin

NDrive G800

NDrive’s G280 and G800 GPS navigators use real-life photo mapping technology rather than traditional 1/3D maps. Headed for the UK and Ireland and supplied with TeleAtlas maps of both territories (stored on an 8GB SD card, and reverted to in areas where photo mapping isn’t available), the two new NDrive units feature 5 different photo map viewing angles-4 diagonal views and a bird’s eye view, one of which is automatically selected for you at a given point in time, always maximizing your view of the area through which you’re traveling. Although you can also manually select your viewpoint, the NDrive’s intelligence is a usability feature that separates NDrive from the rest.

Easy to setup and easy to use, both the NDrive G280 and NDrive G800 feature a touchscreen interface, visual and audible speed camera alerts, pedestrian mode, POI database, rubber casing, media player, FM transmitter for car stereo hook-up and Bluetooth functionality.

Available in May from Smart Devices, the NDrive G280 and G800 GPS units will cost UK buyers £199.00 and £315.00 respectively. Check out a full list of specs and listing of towns where photo mapping is available after the jump… [Read more →]

[del.icio.us] [Digg] [Facebook] [Google] [Mixx] [Reddit] [StumbleUpon] [Technorati] [Email] More »
Sphere: Related Content

April 23, 2008   No Comments