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Garmin nüvi Series
 

Go wide with the ultra-cool nüvi 260W that speaks street names. This widescreen navigator is attractively-priced and simple to use. Like the rest of the nüvi 200-series, you’re just a few screen taps away from anywhere. Navigate With Ease nüvi 260W comes ready to go right out of the box with preloaded City Navigator® NT street maps, including a hefty points of interest (POIs) database with hotels, restaurants, fuel, ATMs and more. It even announces the name of exits and streets so you never have to take your eyes off the road.

 

Simply touch the color screen to enter a destination, and nüvi takes you there with 2D or 3D maps and turn-by-turn voice directions. In addition, nüvi 260W accepts custom points of interest (POIs), such as school zones and safety cameras and lets you set proximity alerts to warn you of upcoming POIs. Take It With You Like the rest of the nüvi 200-series, nüvi 260W sports a sleek, slim design and fits comfortably in your pocket or purse. Its rechargeable lithium-ion battery makes it convenient for navigation by car or foot.

 

Go Beyond Navigation Navigation is just the beginning. nüvi 260W includes many travel tools including JPEG picture viewer, world travel clock with time zones, currency converter, measurement converter, calculator and more. It also comes with Garmin Lock™, an anti-theft feature, and configurable vehicle icons that let you select car-shaped graphics to show your location on the map. Optional plug-in SD cards let you add additional features.

 

Purchase Garmin Travel Guides for detailed data on attractions and our SaversGuide® for information on nearby merchants offering discounts to customize nüvi for your travel needs.

 

Features:

  • Unit dimensions, WxHxD: 4.8"W x 2.9"H x .8"D (12.2 x 7.4 x 2.0 cm)
  • Display size, WxH: 3.81"W x 2.25"H (9.7 x 5.7 cm); 4.3" diag (10.9 cm)
  • Display resolution, WxH: 480 x 272 pixels
  • Voice prompts (e.g. "Turn right in 500 ft.") 
  • Speaks street names (e.g. "Turn right ON ELM STREET in 500 ft.") 
  • Auto re-route (fast off-route and detour recalculation) 
  • Choice of route setup (faster time, shorter distance, off road) 
  • Route avoidance (avoid highways, tolls etc.)
  • Configurable vehicle icons (select car-shaped icons for map navigation)
  • World travel clock, currency & measurement converter, calculator
  • Touchscreen 
  • Garmin Lock™ (anti-theft feature)

 

Navman S-Series 

The Navman S-Series is a result of 20 years experience in navigation equipment combined with extensive research into what our customers really need and want from their in-car navigation system.

 

Sleek and sophisticated, the user friendly S-Series is intelligently designed from the inside out with features including large finger-friendly touchscreen, easy-to-use menu, clear visual and voice guidance and pre-installed speed and red light camera alerts.

 

Each model in the S-Series is designed to make your driving experience more enjoyable and your life easier.

 

Interestingly the Navman S-Series contains points of interest (POI) categories that include over 500,000 different locations like restaurants, parks, accommodation and much, much more. And with the S50, S80 and S90i you can use your Navman to make a phone call directly to your chosen point of interest, for example, you can book a table at a restaurant as you are guided there. You can even save your own points of interest.

 

Features

 

  • Latest 2007 Australian mapping
  • Pre-loaded speed and red light camera alerts
  • Petrol and Parking shortcuts
  • SOS shortcut for emergency services
  • Over 500,000 points of interest (POI)
  • Automatic day/night display
  • Store up to 200 favourite POI
  • Route detour - avoid delays in your trip

 

Tomtom 

TomTom NV is the world’s foremost navigation solutions provider. TomTom's products are created with an emphasis on innovation, build quality, user friendliness, safety features and value.

 

TomTom's products include all-in-one navigation devices which enable customers to navigate right out of the box; these are the gold medal-winning TomTom GO family, the TomTom ONE XL and TomTom ONE ranges and the TomTom RIDER. Additionally, independent research proves that TomTom products have a significant positive effect on driving and road safety. They also help women get to their destinations in a much quicker time.

 

TomTom offers a collection of content and services for TomTom’s navigation products, which are easily available through TomTom HOME (main gps website).


TomTom also provides navigation software products that integrate with third party devices; (something Google can’t do) the TomTom NAVIGATOR software for PDAs and smartphones.

 

TomTom WORK combines industry leading communication and smart navigation technology with leading edge tracking and tracing expertise.


TomTom’s products are sold through a network of leading retailers in 30 countries and online. In Australia, TomTom products are sold at Dick Smiths, Harvey Norman, Office works, Supercheap Auto and many other leading retailers. TomTom was founded in 1991 in Amsterdam and has offices in Europe, North America and some in Asia Pacific. TomTom is listed at Euronext, Amsterdam Stock Exchange in The Netherlands (Holland).

 

A feature will all Tom Tom portable navigation modules is the ability to update firmware to have different voices. You may prefer Mr T or a soothing females voice.

 

TomTom Screen Size: 4.3 inch touch screen
TomTom Features: thousands of points of interests, turn by turn navigation, fast route calculation, latest where is maps