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Mio unveils C317 (for Korea)

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Mio unveiled a new GPS navigation with a DMB receiver for watching TV. But they didn’t stop there; they also threw in DMB recording capability. The new Mio C317 has a spacious 4.3″ screen and it features a SiRF Star III GPS receiver for navigation. As far as TV goes, you can, thanks to PIP (picture in picture), view it while navigating. The only downside is the fact that there’s no HDD on board so you’re gonna have to rely on some high capacity SD/MMC cards (supports upto 8GB) to store your favorite show.

Mio C317 integrates a 2100mAh battery that should last around 5.5 hours for navigation, and 4 hours for TV watching.

Then only Mio’s available on Amazon these days are the Mio C310x, Mio H610, Mio P550, Mio C220, Mio C710, and Mio 269. No news on whether C317 will ever make it to North America or Europe… via

Delphi NAV200 review

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Delphi’s one and only GPS navigation system NAV200 got an “OK” review from people at PC Magazine of UK. The bottom line was that the hardware stood their test OK but the multimedia capabilities was less than impressive. As a result Delphi NAV200 received 3 out of 5 which corresponds to a “good”.

The higly portable NAV200 is out there to gain some market share from the non-PDA, dedicated GPS navigation devices with multimedia support such as the Mio C710, Garmin nüvi 350 and nüvi 360. Delphi NAV200 also includes built-in games, calculator, world clock, and still manages to stay below $400.

The NAV200 has standard hardware that come with most other GPS systems such as the SiRF Star III GPS receiver and the 3.5″ touch screen. The navigation software on the Delphi NAV200 is Navigon’s Mobile Navigator which is a well-known company in Germany that produces navigation software meant to run on smartphones, PDAs, and portable navigation devices.

Multimedia features are also quite limited. When you plug in an SD card, the NAV200 scans it for all supported media types. For music, the player can handle MP3/WAV; for video, AVI. Unfortunately, playlists are out of the question. Likewise, the picture viewer is very simplistic. You’re limited to gif, jpg, and .png file formats, and there’s no option for a slide show and no provision for rotating pictures shot in portrait mode. Worse, the NAV200 took close to 25 seconds to downsize and sample some pictures shot on my 7-megapixel camera with file sizes of about 3.5MB. Even so, the video player played back video recorded at 320-by-240 quite well. When I tried to play back a clip recorded at 640-by-480, however, I got an error message that said it couldn’t play the file (Error—Lower buffer size).

Overall, if you don’t care so much about multimedia handling on a navigation system the Delphi NAV200 is there to provide good basic navigation at a great price.

Mio DigiWalker C710 review

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A recent review compares the Mio C710 to the Garmin’s nüvi 350. Because of the short list below it finds that the Mio C710 is no nüvi killer.
Pros

  • built-in DivX video player
  • GPS antenna integrated into the case

Cons

  • no music playback during navigation
  • no pedestrian mode
  • no text-to-speech engine

The Mio C710 is listed at $650 however you can pick one up from Amazon for $510 and the competetion Nuvi 350 for $620.

The POI database appears to be reasonably up to date. Restaurants near my home that have opened within the last year were included. I was disappointed, however, that you couldn’t search for a POI by spelling its name. You couldn’t, for example, search for the nearest Wal-Mart or McDonald’s.

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mercedes to come bundled with mio c710 navigation system

benz-mio-993.jpgMio announced an agreement with Mercedes on July 28 for bundled sale of its C710 car-use GPS (global positioning system) portable navigation device (PND), in the Taiwan market through August.

Mio’s C710 comes with 2GB of storage capacity for maps of Taiwan and different multimedia formats such as music, movies and photos. Mio C710 measures 112 x 76 x 20.6, and weighs 174g and is available at a recommended retail price of NT$18,800 (US$575), noted the company.

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Mio C710 GPS navigation system review

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Mio C710 got a lot of good points in this review. The C710 is high-end product from Mio, and offers a lot more features then the price cautious C210 model. It has a lot improvements compared to it, specially in the body design. Let’s get started:

Pros

  • compact body design
  • extra inch of screen then C210
  • easy zoom and elevation controls
  • one free subscription to the Mio Traffic and speed camera alert service
  • currency and unit converter
  • 2GB of in-built flash memory

Cons

  • somewhat slow update of position on the road
  • default POI not very extensive
  • can’t listen mp3 while navigating

Although Tomtom can crow about their online Plus service, which is great once you’re set up with a subscription, what you get built in with the C710 is even more impressive.

The Mio retails for about £360, which makes it a direct competitor to the Tomtom Go 510. However, the Mio C710 offers you much, much more for your money.

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Live pics of the Mio C710


We’ve had numerous posts about Mio C710, but all with company released pics… This time we have live pics taken in Belgium. Auto translator translates ROM as Romanian; just ignore that. We all know ROM stands for Read Only Memory :)

Aesthetically near to the PND Mio C510E, the next PND Mio C710 differs from this one by the presence from an integrated adapter TMC and 2GB of ROMANIAN flash memory.

The PND Mio C710 has of a system Windows EC net 4.2, of a chip GPS SiRFStar III able to collect to 20 channels GPS simultaneously, of a apadtator TMC integrated making it possible to receive information on the traffic in real time, of a Bluetooth connector industry integrated associated a microphone – allowing to have functions of kit free hand -, a processor S3C2440 given rhythm with 400 MHz, 2GB of ROMANIAN memory, 64MB of memory RAM, a tactile screen TFT LCD of a size of 3.5 inches for 65 000 colors, of a port for memory board SD and finally of a battery of a capacity of.

Usable for its functions of navigation assisted by GPS via the presence of the software MioMap v3, Mio C710 also has functions multi-media with a reader MP3, a viewer of photographs and a convertisseur/calculator of distance/poids/devise integrated into the apparatus of pocket.

Concerning the numerical charts present out of standard with the PND Mio C710, this one integrates the charts Tele Atlas (2006.1) of 24 European countries pre-installed on the internal memory flash of 2 Go, the whole with a possible navigation interfrontalière.

Also making it possible to have access to a free data base leaving the possibility of having the last sites of the fixed radars on the road, the PND Mio C710 will be marketed in the current of next May for a price of 549 e€uros including all taxes.

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CeBIT 2006: Mio launch 6 new GPS units including A701

Navigadget had a few posts about the Mio A701, Mio268, and Mio 269, and the rest such as C710, C510E, C210, P550, P350 and H610, but I guess the news is now official.

Mio, has launched six new satellite navigation devices at CeBIT in Hannover, Germany hoping to offer something for everyone.

The new range includes models with integrated Traffic Message Channel (TMC) service, speed camera alerts, navigation to Outlook contacts and Bluetooth hands-free calling as well as the latest 20 channel SiRFstar III GPS receiver. The new range also sees the launch of Mio Map version 3.

The flagship model is the Mio A701, a phone, office and sat-nav in the palm of your hand. The phone is a fully-functional tri-band/GPRS Windows PDA phone with a 2.7 inch TFT touch screen, Bluetooth and a 1.3 megapixel camera alongside the SiRFstar III GPS receiver.

Specs include a 520 MHz Intel processor, 192 MB of internal memory with expansion to 2 GB with standard SD or MMC memory cards, 4 hours talktime, up to 200 hours standby, simultaneous calling and navigation with MioMap v2, one touch calling of points of interest (restaurants, cinemas etc.) and for the geeks out there the ability to text GPS co-ordinates. The Mio A701 with cost £649 and be available in March.

The Mio C710 features maps of 24 European countries pre-installed on the internal 2GB flash memory while, cross-border route planning and navigation, integrated TMC receiver, MP3 player, Photo viewer and distance/weight/currency converter/calculator and built-in Bluetooth.

The C510E will offer maps of one region and major roads of Europe pre-installed on internal memory; package contains maps of 24 European countries on DVD, optional TMC receiver accessory, and built-in Bluetooth

The Mio C210 comes with the SiRFstar III GPS receiver, a 400Mhz processor and touch screen destination entry and is the company’s entry level device. Maps of one region and major roads of Europe preinstalled on internal flash memory of 512 MB

Based on the A201, the company has launched two new PDA products; the Mio P550/P350. The P550 includes Wi-Fi connectivity and Skype pre-installed, while both feature Bluetooth. Like the other models in the range both feature a 400Mhz processor and the SiRFstar III GPS receiver

The Mio P550 and Mio P350 are available in April and will cost £369 and £269 respectively.

The Mio C210, Mio C710 and Mio C510E will be available in May and cost £299, £549 and £399 respectively… via

With Mio C710, C510E, C210, P550, P350 and H610, Mio renews its range of PND and Pocket PC GPS SiRFStar III

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(babelfish translated from French…)The MiTAC manufacturer is on the point of marketing not less than 4 new PND like 2 Pocket PC equipped with an integrated receiver GPS. If those are already revealed in images and design features on the site of official of Mio reserved for the press, it will be necessary to wait the next month so that they are presented at the time of the CeBIT living room of Hanover.

In the category of the new products of the type PND, i.e. princpalement dedicated to navigation GPS, four new products are thus revealed with Mio C710, Mio C510E, Mio C210 and Mio H610. It should be noted that these the first three PND have one year a free subscription making it possible to have access an updated data base of radars.mio c210

The first two PND, namely Mio C710 and Mio C510E have a nearly identical form Factor and close technological functionalities with a system Windows EC net 4.2, a chip GPS SiRFStar III, a Bluetooth connector industry integrated associated a microphone – allowing to have functions of kit free hand – as well as numerical charts of TeleAtlas.

Concerning the differences between these two models, Mio C710 integrates a receiver TMC for information traffic in real time as of the charts of 25 countries of Europe while Mio C510E integrates only numerical charts of a chart of area and principal roads of Europe.

Another next PDN of MiTAC, this time of entry of range, names Mio C210 and always has a system Windows EC Net 4.2, of a chip GPS SiRFStar III, numerical charts TeleAtlas of an area as well as principal roads of Europe.

For its part, Mio H610 is a multi-media PND under Windows EC net with a numerical chip GPS SiRFStar III and charts Tele Atlas of the 25 countries of Europe. This PND is announced like having advanced functions of reading of vidéos and numerical musics and has tourist guides as well as endurance record 17 hour old in mode of listening of musics MP3. mio h610

In more of these PND, they are also two Pocket PC GPS, successors of Mio A201, who are announced and who have same form Factor with Mio P550 and Mio P350.

Mio P550 has of a chip GPS SiRFStar III, a system Windows Mobile 5, a processor given rhythm to 400 MHz, of a port for memory board SD/MMC and finally a double connector industry without wire Bluetooth and Wifi. Moreover, this Pocket PC is announced as being compatible with all the software of navigation GPS of the market and will possèdera the characteristic to integrate out of standard the software of voice on IP Skype.

For its part, Mio P350 is a version reduced of P550, with like principal difference an absence in connector industry Wifi and Bluetooth.mio p350

While waiting for an official presentation of these products at the time of next CeBIT of Hanover in Mars, some webzine foreign gives already additional semi-official information on these products, mainly on the level of their prices of marketing. It comes out from it as well as the PND Mio C510 would be available for a price of 399 €uros while the PND Mio C210 for its part would be marketed at the price of 299 €uros.

Proposing until prèsent only some products of the type PND (Mio 268 and Mio 269+) or of type Pocket PC GPS (Mio 168, Mio A201), the MiTAC Taiwanese is thus on the point of marketing soon not less than six models different of terminals dedicated to navigation GPS.

Remain to know if the strategy marketing which consists in flooding the market of new products to make known the Mio mark mainly in Europe will be paying where if it will lead the company in the long term to be restructured to market only the most profitable products. via mobinaute