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

Feb 20, 2006 gps navigation, mio

(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.

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.

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.

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