LG LN855
Jan 8, 2008 CES 2008, gps navigation
We had a chance to stop by LG’s huge booth at CES 2008 and find out more about their new GPS navigation systems. They’ve expanded their LN lineup with three new models. The LG LN835, LN845, and the latest and greatest LG LN855.
LN855 has a 4.3″ widescreen LCD display that looks great on its slim body. LN855 supports access to real time traffic information in 50 North American cities via an integrated RDS-TMC antenna. Of course it also does turn-by-turn voice guidance while pronouncing street names thanks to its text to speech technology. Bluetooth voice calling, phone book sync and music streaming is standard on the new LG LN855 and also has audio out and headphone jack in addition to USB Port and SD Card Slot.
More specs:
- 5 hour battery life
- over 4 million points of interests
- SiRF Star III GPS receiver chip
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December 26th, 2008 at 1:09 pm
Turning it on: after playing a cozy tune it displays a legal notice (you can’t turn this off) and you have to agree to their mumbo jumbo every time before using the unit.
About the setup: I set the time to West coast time and it still displays East coast time.
Satellite Lock: to get a position for the first time took 10min and a hot start takes about 3min (compare this to my old GPS which does it in 1min and 15s resp.)
Under GPS status it will give you some GPS information and elevation but there is no screen for headings, compass, elevation, route profile.
Setting up for a trip: there is no software available that lets you do this on your computer. Doing it on the unit is almost impossible because it try’s to fill in all the blanks. I try to enter “Mountain Highway”. After I type in the M it searches the database and if there is no Mountain Hwy in the database you are not able to enter it. (sorry this area is not in the our database it will be next year. We charge you for the map update of course.) Furthermore the Keyboard layout is ABC and not QWERTY which seems really strange. When you try to enter a postal code f.e.: V7X 1G7 you have to switch between the letters and numbers screen every time.
Now I am trying to enter my home location and with some difficulties I manage that. For some unexplained reason it always returns me to Ottawa and I have to scroll across the continent to continue entering a go to location. My friend lives at an existing location and it allows me to enter it. The GPS calculates a route. Now I am on my way…the units says “drive safely” (how presumptuous and annoying…but it can be turned off unlike the startup legal mumbo jumbo) and here is the one thing that this unit does well. When you loose your way it recalculates the position and adjusts the route on the fly.
Compared to other GPS this unit does not live up to its hype. It lacks some basic GPS functionality. It has no statistics screen, no compass and a total lack of elevation information. LG tried to build a unit the general public can use but made it so unintuitive that all the great features like touch screen and Bluetooth get lost in the translation.
April 15th, 2009 at 8:15 am
The style of writing is quite familiar . Have you written guest posts for other blogs?