EGO Drive
Dec 31, 2007 CES 2008, gps navigation
Raytel – the American partner of German Funkwerk – will be showcasing the EGO Drive at CES 2008 next month in Vegas. This GPS navigator has a great design and comes with a remote controller knob that makes sure you keep your eyes on the road the whole time.
EGO Drive offers 3D maps, bluetooth capability for hands free calls, and a sharp 4.3″ touch screen that comes with a stylus. Ego Drive is a high end device and the features offered prove it. The on-board text-to-speech engine reads out your text messages for you, and it even has a light-sensor to adjust the illumination of the screen. It has internal memory – but in addition it supports SD cards up to 2GB.
Here are features offered just for the bluetooth function:
- Voice recognition (speech-to-text, no training required)
- Complies with all hands-free laws
- Integrates and mutes car’s stereo system
- Supports all Bluetooth mobile phone voice commands
- DSP technology for noise and echo suppression
- Reads out text messages (SMS text-to-speech)
- Shows text and picture messages (SMS and MMS)
- Accommodates up to 10 different user profiles
- audio streaming (A2DP and AVRCP)
We have no information on pricing just yet. We’ll keep you posted.
UPDATE: Well the PR people for EGO Drive got in touch with us and this is what they wanted to share with us:
EGO DRIVE is priced at $799 and will be available late Feb/early March ‘08.
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The EGO DRIVE will retail about $799 and will be available late February/early March ‘08. For more information on the EGO DRIVE and other EGO products, visit http://egohandsfree.com/
~Products on display at CES, #6624 North Hall~
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February 3rd, 2009 at 8:37 pm
I love GPS units but hate having to pull over to set it up if I change plans in the middle of driving. So to have something that complies with the hands free laws will make my life so much easier. I love that it can be a multifunctional tool as well. Thanks for the post.
April 15th, 2009 at 11:08 am
My fellow on Orkut shared this link with me and I’m not dissapointed at all that I came here.