Blaupunkt Lucca UK

Advantages: Clear display, and quick and accurate route calculations.
Disadvantages: Quirky controls, software and flimsy mounting cradle

...but is of a poor design and is not very robust. When the unit is turned on you presented with a menu for navigation multimedia and settings. Pressing navigation takes you to a second menu for destination entry, home, show map, points of interest and route options. Destinations can be set using address or full UK postcode. Route calculations are very quick as is satellite acquisition. The program sometimes does not react very quickly to touch sensitive controls making you think you have not pressed it properly you press it again and then it moves 2 steps instead of the 1 you wanted. The routes selected seem to be very accurate and the display is very clear, but the audio is very poor with not much volume made worse by the tiny speaker. Even when connected to an external speaker the audio remains poor. The software for the G.P.S. is not very intuitive... Read review

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Advantages: Clear verbal instructions, very easy to use,dashboard intergrated makes it less "nickable" and a detachable facia, can do miles or KM
Disadvantages: Does not give you idea of where you are, eg if your near points of interest, cant review whole route, so you cant check it out on a map

...I bought this system with a 5 disc cd system, the whole lot came in at a whopping £600. However, that aside, it was fantastic, we did a 3500 mile trip around France, Spain, Italy, switzerland and UK in 3 weeks. HELGA as we called our travelpilot, did not let us down once. Your can enter a postcode of anywhere in europe and she takes you to the door, you can get her to find you the nearest petrol station, very useful as I have a Total fuel card, she has useful and maybe useless information all embedded on the memory, she tells you about toll roads, speed cameras and with the TMC option - traffic congestion, then she jumps into life and wow finds a way around the lot. Dare you take the option to not take motorways and she will take you down some of the most picturesque and isolated roads you will ever go down. We thought she had gone... Read review

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Advantages: Very powerful, great quality sound, simplified features
Disadvantages: Menu can be a bit fiddly, slow to return the CD from its' slot

...different buttons are pressed. Quite simply, the stereo displays the track number and time elapsed when playing a CD, and has RDS* which enables it to display the name of the radio station, frequency or time when the radio's on (you have a choice of display). On the left is a nifty little icon that lights up if a CD is in the drive. Alongside that is a car logo to indicate that traffic announcements are being received and will broadcast. On the right there’s an 'X-Bass' (the Blaupunkt bass enhancement feature) logo that indicates how much bass is being used. * More on RDS can be found at http://www.rds.org.uk/rds98/rds98.htm. It is a mechanism for ensuring that your radio tunes itself to the strongest possible frequency at all times. A nice aspect of it is that it displays the name of the radio station that you're listening to... Read review

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