Blaupunkt Travelpilot Lucca MP3

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

...This is a mobile G.P.S. navigator with a multimedia player.It has large 4inch 16:9 touch sensitive display and comes complete with a rechargeable battery pack, charger, a wire antenna for TMC and mobile mounting cradle. The G.P.S. has 3 push buttons to turn the unit on or off, menu and Info. There is a touch sensitive slider control either side of the display to control the volume and for scrolling through the menu system or zooming the map. On the left side there is a headphone socket and on the right side a power socket and S.D .card slot. Underneath there is a U.S.B. socket, serial port ( for connecting to the cradle and a reset button. The rear of the unit has the speaker and sockets for the T.M.C. antenna and an external G.P.S. antenna (optional accessory). The mounting cradle fits to the windscreen with a large suction... 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: An idea if you really don't know the area.
Disadvantages: Limited, outdated mapping, not so easy to use

...In our brand new Fiesta, delivered this month, the Blaupunkt TravelPilot comes fitted in a unit combined with the radio. To try this system out, over a period of three weeks, and a total of about 600 miles, entirely within my home county of West Yorkshire, i ran the TravelPilot alongside my own local knowledge of the area built up over 17 years of driving around the area. To enter a destination it is necessary to go through a menu and a series of entries not wholly unlike entering a text message on a mobile phone. There is a form of predictive texting, which can be quite useful. The problem I found, though, was that before I could find the way to, say, Huddersfield Police Station I needed to know what road it is in. There seems to be no provision for places like hospitals or police stations as destinations. Back to the AtoZ to get... Read review

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