Navman has announced the unveiling of their new S-Series GPS navigation systems and the 1st new model in the series is the S100. As its reviews, S100 is just 13.5mm thick and is built-in with 4.3? widescreen screen without bevels. It comes with some enhanced specifications such as 3D city landmarks, NavPix geo-tagged photo navigation, Local Search via Infobel, and true Pedestrian mode.
The S100 makes use of the latest “Spirit” software, which uses a novel Glide Touch user-interface. Users just slide and tap the touchscreen to dock, open, pan and scroll menus, not unlike the newest smartphones and MP3 players.
The Navman S100 has also added some new features such as Text to Speech (TTS) and junction assist to allow you to navigate difficult junctions, the cradle is a big upgrading over prior models also. However, the S100 is marred by the latest ‘Glide Touch’ user interface, which is said to be irksome and fussy to use with button presses being unnoticed too often for our liking. The S100 doesn’t come with bluetooth but this is said to be a dispensable feature and not something to miss anyway.
Let’s check out the full set of features:
• Mio Technology “Spirit” software with Glide Touch
• GPS fix 5 times faster with SiRFInstantFixII
• Infobel local search via NavDesk desktop
• Pre-loaded safety camera data – free trial
• slim, lightweight design (13.5mm)
• Latest Regional map data
• 4.3? Super flat widescreen
• NavPix photo navigation
• Economical Routing
• Junction Views
• 3D landmarks
• MP3 player
The Navman S-Series S100 also known as (Spirit S100) is expected to be made available in November 2008 with the price tag of around £199.
Navman keeps on making improvements with each launch in their ‘S’ series, but it will have to improve the Points of Interest (POI) and user interface before it can rival the likes of Garmin.
