NaviGadget

Acer finally has made more information available about the Ferrari Racing handheld GPS device.

Ferrari Racing series come with navigation capabilities integrating SiRF Star III GPS receiver and the ALK CoPilot navigation software that comes with special point of interests for your Ferrari, as well as safety camera warnings. Maps are provided by NAVTEQ.

In addition this device is a fully featured PocketPC with a 2.8″ touch screen which includes a Windows Mobile Office suite, Bluetooth and Wi-Fi connection which would even enable you to make phone calls when used with Skype. Did we mention upto 8 hours battery life?

The device comes with a 1 or 2 GB SD card, a unique Ferrari car cradle and car charger, and European maps on DVD. Feel free to fill up your card with maps of countries of interest to you… via

Acer launched a new range of GPS navigation systems called P700. These will supplement the current models Acer P600 and the Acer V200 that we had already mentioned on Navigadget.

The new P700 will have the largest screen of all of the above measuring at 4.3 inches. New on the P700 series is the new version 7 of ALK CoPilot navigation software.

CoPilot 7 has a new interface which is more pleasant and easier to read. A new functionality called Pin-Lock will allow the users to lock the device just like you can do on your phone with a PIN number.

The maps for the P700 series will be provided by Navteq and are from the fourth quarter of 2006. Currently the P700 series will have two models: Acer P710 which will come with a 512MB SD card for regional maps and Acer P730 that has a 2GB SD card for maps of the whole Europe.

The difference between P710 and P730 is that latter also supports RDS-TMC traffic information.

Main features:

• Integrated SiRF III GPS receiver
• 4.3″ LCD display at 16/9 and 480×272 resolution supporting upto 16.7 million colors
• 64 MB of ROM and 64 MB of RAM
• SD/MMC port
• 1100mAh Li-Ion battery - lasts upto 3 hours
• 1.5 Watt internal speaker
• Windows CE.net 5.0
• ALK CoPilot 7 navigation software with maps provided by Navteq; radars preloaded
• RDS/TMC Premium traffic Information (only on P730)
• Image viewer

Acer P710 will come with regional maps and cost 199€ and the same P710 with maps of Europe will cost 249€ - both available in October… via

We now have a review for the recently released Acer V200 GPS navigation system.

Acer V200 surprised the reviewers with its amazing price at only £119 and a great set of features expected from an entry level GPS navigation system.

The time to first fix was very fast and route calculations both quick and accurate; our attempts to throw the V200 off its course and mess up a new route calculation failed admirably. You’ll also find the option to upgrade some of the basic features on offer as there’s an SD card slot to allow more extensive maps to be installed, although this does get a bit fiddly.

If you don’t mind having to plug-in the 1100mAh every 3 hours (being optimistic) into your car charger this may just be the right sat nav system for someone who’s on a tight budget. Acer V200 is currently £121 on Amazon but if you looked elsewhere online you may find it for a couple of pounds cheaper. If the exchange rate between $ and £ wasn’t so crazy this could’ve made it to our sub $200 sat nav system list.

The new V200 series we mentioned a few days ago, which is offered at a competitive price of 149€ ($198) in Europe (regional maps) is accompanied by another model from Acer, namely the V210.

Main difference of Acer V210 is that it will offer RDS/TMC live traffic information and again is offered at a good price: 249€ ($332).

Here are the main features of V210 :

• Integrated GPS receiver with Centrality Atlas II GPS chip
• 3.5″ touch screen TFT LCD
• Samsung S3C2442XL Processor at 300 MHz
• RDS/TMC integrated traffic information receiver
• 64 MB of RAM for applications
• 64 MB of ROM for OS and integrated applications
• SD/MMC Port
• 1W speaker
• 3.5 mm audio jack
• 1100 mAh Lithium-Ion Battery with 3 hour life
• Dimensions : 9.5 X 7.9 X 2.5 cm
• Weight : 172 grams
• Windows CE.net 5.0
• Destinator 6 navigation software

Acer 210 does not support integrated radar information but it shouldn’t too much problem to import them. At 249€ Acer V210 is currently the least expensive GPS navigation device with live traffic information capability… via

Acer showcased a new PDA based, Ferrari design navigator this week at the 2007 Computex in Taipei. The device features a 2.8″ QVGA display and a powerful speaker for voice directions. The Ferrari navigator uses ALK CoPilot v6.0 premium navigation software that lets you set your very own voice sets on the fly and is able to utilize real time traffic information which can be overlayed onto maps from Navteq.

Like everyone else Acer also went with the sensitive SiRF Star III GPS receiver and threw in some media playing capabilities that lets you listen to your tunes and check out your pictures. For memory expansion the Ferrari themed navigation system provides an SD/MMC slot and for connectivity you’ll find the Bluetooth and 802.11b/g antennas very handy… via

Acer announced a new range of personal navigation devices: the V200 series. It’s price point and placement makes us think that it is going to replace the e300, e305 and e310 series. V200 has a standard 3.5″ but its price is under the psychological 150€ mark.

Main features of the V200 series :

• Integrated SiRF III LP GPS receiver
• 3.5″ TFT LCD touch screen with 65K colors and 240×320 pixels (QVGA) resolution
• Samsung S3C2442XL Processor at 300 MHz
• 64 MB RAM for applications
• 64 MB ROM flash for OS and integrated applications
• SD/MMC port
• 1W speaker
• 3.5 mm audio out
• 1100mAh Li-Ion battery that lasts 3 hours
• Dimensions : 9.5 X 7.9 X 2.5 cm
• Weight : 172 G
• Destinator 6 navigation software of with maps of France coming from Navteq on 512MB SD card

It will be marketed soon for 149€ - probably in France only… via

The Acer P630 we announced back in September 2006 are finally showing up at online stores in Europe prices ranging from €290 to €375.

The P630 comes from the P600 series which contains slim and portable navigation devices that integrate a bright 4″ display, which is great for navigation, viewing photos and listening to audio files.

For navigation the Acer P630 relies on the SiRF Star III GPS receiver for signal acquisition and ALK’s CoPilot 6 for software. The maps are provided by Navteq.

This is not your entry level system, so you are also getting a hands free bluetooth capability letting you use the speaker and the microphone of P630 for your phone conversations. Using the SD card slot you can bring your audio files and listen to them while navigating.

Device Features

• 400Mhz Processor
• Bluetooth for Handsfree calling
• 4″ Wide clear display
• SD Expansion Slot
• CoPilot Live 6 Software with latest Navteq maps of UK and Western Europe

CoPilot Features

• Maps of UK and Western Europe, down to street level
• Address manager
• POI (Point of Interest)
• Favorites
• Recent location
• Car mode/walking mode
• Trip planner
• Avoid routes

Included in the box are Mini-USB sync cable, car charger, car mount kit, AC adaptor, pouch, SD card with preload Map of UK and Europe and a CD Set (Acer Companion CD / Navigation software CD).

Acer’s new P610 GPS navigation system got reviewed recently and it received 4 stars out of 5. The P610 is a compact, slim device which features a 4″ screen. Acer pre-installed the Copilot 6 mapping software which is a good name in the mapping business. The GPS receiver in the P610 is the SiRF Star III chipset and the device can also function as an MP3 player, photo viewer and store a contacts database for easy navigation to known addresses.

The reviewer only found one frustrating feature with the P610 which was in the software department:

There’s no support for full postcode searching. You’ll have to do things the ‘old-fashioned’ way, selecting a country, partial postcode, street name and house number. This is rather frustrating; the interface is awkward with a rather clunky address database so don’t even think about doing it on the move.

Acer P610 is priced at around £220.

Acer N35 is a complete navigation system in the palm of your hand that doubles as a PDA. The Acer n35 is based on a Pocket PC that uses Microsoft Windows Mobile 2003 Pocket PC Premium Edition and runs on a Samsung Processor at 266MHz. There is an integrated GPS on board so all you have to do is turn on the device, flip up the antenna, insert the 256 MB SD-Card that holds “map’n'app” and off you go. Destinator 3 with regional map data of the UK & Ireland comes pre-installed on the SD-memory card. European maps can be unlocked via additional subscription.

The N35 lets you plan your routes ahead of time and is smart enough to optimize (or optimise) them. You can even get voice guidance and be yelled at for going over the speed limit. The screen measures 3.5″, much like most other navigation systems out there.

Other than navigation you can also use the N35 to to your favourites or any contact you stored and/or synchronized to Microsoft Pocket Outlook. N35 comes installed with Pocket Word and Pocket Excel so you can stay busy once you get to your destination. If you are looking for entertainment you can use the music player and picture viewer on board.

We kindly ask our British users to let us know how much the N35 costs if they’ve seen one before.

Acer’s two new GPS navigation systems we mentioned last month (Acer P610 and P630) are now up on their own website with full specs and features. The device will feature a 4″ LCD touch screen and come with your regular MP3 and picture viewers. There is an SD/MMC expansion slot but the battery will last only 3 hours so you may want to turn down that music if you don’t want to get lost. Other than the battery life rest of the specs look promising - Acer made sure they only used the good stuff such as the SiRF Star III GPS receiver chip and NAVTEQ digital maps.

Also worth mentioning are live traffic info capabilitiy and the extensive POI library.

Full specs after the jump
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