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Medion PNA 460 and 465 are announced

Sep 25, 2006 gps navigation

auto-translated from French: The German brand Medion presents a new PND (autonomous GPS), namely the PNA 460 and its big brother the PNA 465. This last is characterized by its receiver Info integrated Traffic RDS/TMC.

Characteristic of these PND, they use a screen with 16:9 format of size 4.3 inches of resolution 480 x 272 pixels, instead of the usual size of 3.5 inches and of 320 X 240 pixels.

Another characteristic, the presence of guides of city, City Guides, giving tourist information for 50 towns of Europe.

Their characteristics :

• Receiver GPS integrated with chip GPS SiRF III
• Samsung Processor To 400 MHz
• Touch screen 4.3 inches TFT 65,536 colors 16/9 and of resolution 480×272 pixels (WQVGA)
• Microsoft Windows CE.net 5.0
• Receiver Information integrated Traffic RDS/TMC (only on the PNA 465)
• 5 hour endurance
• Software of navigation GoPal (3soft).
• Maps coming from Navteq, the second quarter 2006
• Reader MP3
• Viewer of images
• Delivered with support conveys and charger lights cigar

It’s a pity that Information Traffic RDS/TMC is of type BASIC (information only on the paying motorways. One would have liked to have Information Traffic of the Premium type (information also in the large cities and the expressways as Paris will intra muros, its peripheral and its motorways).

The PNA 460 will be delivered with a memory board SD of 256 MB integrating the maps of France and its price will be of 289€.

The PNA 465 will be delivered with a memory board SD of 1 GB integrating the maps of Western Europe, allowing a transborder navigation and its price will be of 389€.

They will be available both during October and it should be noted that the update of the radars is proposed at the price of 15€ per year.