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Wide 7 type VGA 2DIN HDD/DVD/MD touch panel AV-Navi system MAX960HD

Clarion is getting ready to ship 4 new navigation systems this May and June. Their prices range from $1600 to $2300 and they all feature a nice 7 inch widescreen touch display. The new product line will feature compatibility with many multimedia formats and have advanced audio capabilities such 5.1 surround sound. The top of the line MAX960HD will play DVD’s CD’s and your 5th generation iPod. The site claims that: (auto-translated)

In the sound quality aspect, it corresponds to the 192kHz playback of DVD audio for the first time in industry as a car navigation, it actualizes the field sound playback which the clarion continues to adhere long time. From real sound field adjustment function until the acoustic circuit design, advanced acoustic technology is loaded is “the sound quality pursuit” model.

It was really hard to decipher the auto translated Japanese, but we also have strong clues that all four devices are also capable of recording sound, and playing TV.

Another translation from French. Fun to read…

CeBIT 2006 is the occasion to introduce new navigator to you GPS of the French company Viamichelin. Newcomer on the sector of the autonomous GPS for car, Viamichelin presented the X950T which comes to enrich the line of goods. The related one with X930 is obvious since only some very light aesthetic final improvements are to be noticed. Side of the innovations, one finds especially the information management traffic via TMC and integration owing to lack of a number of contents resulting from the other production from the head office. Thus, the X950T is provided with the addresses and descriptions of the green guide as well as famous guide of the restaurants and hotels. Ergonomics was somewhat re-examined for a greater facility of use, especially with the addresses of the POI. The diponibility is announced for May and the price should be at the neighbourhoods of the 599 €. via

Translated from French.

The Taiwanese company E-Ten launches out in the peripherals multi-media. After PDAPhone under Mobile Windows, it is indeed a first PND SiRFStar III pennies Windows EC baptized Pathfinder which will be soon available to the sale.

Having of a system Windows EC net 5.0, of a processor Samsung 2440 given rhythm to 400 MHz, of a screen TFT LCD of 3.5 inches for a resolution QVGA, a LiPoly battery of a capacity of 1300mAh, 128MB of memory ROMANIAN Flash and 64MB of memory RAM, the PND E-Ten Pathfinder has the characteristic to integrate an adapter RDS-TMC out of standard.

And it is not all! Nonglad to include a module of information traffic in real time, the new PND of E-Ten also has of a connector industry Bluetooth 2.0, a port for memory board MiniSD, of a port mini USB and especially a double Tuner DAB and DMB, making it possible to listen to the radio and to view programmes of TV compatible with this standard. On this subject, format T-DMB is currently tested by some companies in France even if format DVB-H remains most popular in Europe.

Including a software of navigation GPS, Pathfinder could also be used to listen to numerical musics, to post images or to view vidéos, the whole for dimensions of 136.7 X 91.1 X 16.7 mm.

The PND E-Ten Pathfinder is designed to be available to the sale in the current of next May for a price of approximately 550 €uros.