If you want to enter the crazy world of satellite navigation, but can’t let go of your stylish UBD colour scheme, the Navig8r G series devices from Laser offer the ability to customise the appearance of the maps to resemble your favourite old-school street directory. No, us neither…
Outside of that groundbreaking feature, there’s a pretty standard couple of devices here: Text to speech, 2D and 3D views, 3.5 and 4.3-inch screens for the G35 and G43 models respectively and a 30-day trial of SpeedAlert. The maps come from Aussie company Metroview, who I’ve never heard of before, although that doesn’t necessarily mean anything.
The key issue here though is price: $169 for the G35 and $229 for the G43.
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Adam
Tuesday, October 13, 2009 at 12:26 PMwhat’s all this then? GPS devices with colour schemes? never! back in my day, all we had was black and white screens with only 4 pixels.
come on guys, if this is the only selling point of your product, then don’t make it!
Chris
Tuesday, October 13, 2009 at 6:44 PMHi Adam,
Key selling points for the Navig8r G Series are:
- Free map updates for life, the is a first for Australia;
- Unique text-to-speech so that typical Australian names are pronounced in an Aussie accent;
- Price! The G Series has the above plus all the standard features of a GPS device at an extremely affordable price, compared with those currently in the market.
Chris
Drwevil
Tuesday, October 13, 2009 at 4:11 PMDon’t mean to be a complete plonker but my Tom Tom has been able to do this for like ever.
Jack
Thursday, December 10, 2009 at 10:40 PMFree map update is a great feature !