Looket G8 unveiled at CES 2007
Jan 11, 2007 CES 2007, gps navigation
Looket unveiled a new mid-range GPS navigation system at the Consumer Electronics Show at Las Vegas. It is a new entry to their G series, simply named Looket G8. Some of the features include door to door voice guidance, automatic route calculation, ability to plan multi-point trips. The software is also designed for you to easily change and update maps.
Looket G8 uses a Samsung processor, comes with 64MB of SDRAM, and has a 3.5″ color touch screen. For map updates you can use the SD slot. On the background – just like almost all other Asian gadget – it runs Windows CE.Net. It comes with rechargeable Li-Ion battery, home charger, and a car charger. For audio support there’s a built-in speaker and a standard headphone jack.
The difference from its predecessor Looket G7 is that Looket G8 has built-in TMC.
We don’t know who sells these in U.S yet, but we’ll update you guys when we know.
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April 3rd, 2008 at 12:41 pm
Looket G8 Review:
brand newly on the market G8 priced at under £60 at misco turns out to be a real deal!
As I did not find a decent review, before I bought it, have been a bit hesitant… got a surprise! I have had been testing SatNav’s as TomTom 1; Lg; Garmin; RAC; Sony and have found enourmous differences in they funcionality. Whilst some where good at some areas, others where exeding in othrs, some whre complete failure- not this time!
From the beggining, As I’ve opened the box two dissapointments- no home charger or PC connectivity cable, had to find the spare Hitachi one (5V)- worked a treat! Turned on, menu as simple as it it should be, verry funcional and set up did take no longer than two minutes. For a testing of it straight away to the meeting and Entering the Post code some clever- ( not to my taste)feature as Zip Code search gving a letter (Or Two) and Digit (or two) once entered beggining of a post code it asked for a First letters of the Name of destination. Worked out just fine in 6 locations visited today, but would be an issue to ie courrier with incorrect names or Post Codes.
The surprise that I’ve discovered is in its heart (Samsung 400mhz CPU)- Very fast indeed and really did keep up with roundabouts and my traveling speed.
Build qality I can see to be of a decent manufacturing, components and materials, the screen do’nt seem to tough enough for long time abuse with sharp nails or fatty fingers, but time will tell.
On a summary- a bargain for normal user! not for professional though (I would recomend TomTom for those at Triple the price) and despite slacking it in areas spoted as much as I can, there is no better value for money SatNav today!
April 28th, 2008 at 2:29 pm
updated soft is much better (post code search is much more advanced since allowed to enter (instead of 3′rd digit after two letters) a consiquent letter of post code!) … hope it explains…
Languages updated (instaed of female squicking decent male voice)
Some additional settings are no more (nothing of importance)
Basicly my rating now 8/10! (very very good!)
http://file003.bizhard.com/WEBLINK/instruction.html/D453468AE56C169A673EA2F79F40C611510D89065EAF787B959F79FC5C2DF5838975/0000000000012334213_instruction.html
June 13th, 2008 at 6:49 pm
Great sat nav at a very reasonable price. England and Ireland full post code search function, needs to be downloaded from their website. Which does take hours. If you would like the updated maps on a 1gig card, check out my ebay auction search for Looket G8 or my ebay name johnmcowley.
June 15th, 2008 at 4:34 am
the above link only shows in Korean langauge, can anyone help please as to an english version.
ta much
July 30th, 2008 at 5:10 pm
2 :D.Campbell
http://www.looket.com/eng/company/notice_view.php?part=7&index=21703&gotopage=