Product Description

From your desk to your dashboard the Navman PiN 570 will navigate you through your day.Navman introduces Personal Interactive Navigation. The PiN 570 is a fully Drive-Away product, with maps of Australia preloaded for ease of use. The map data covers all metropolitan areas, most regional districts and country towns.The PiN 570 arrives with a dedicated navigation button offering direct access to the SmartST feature packed software with 3D maps, voice guidance, touch-screen and easy navigation.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #21270 in Consumer Electronics
• Brand: Navman
• Model: ICN570
• Dimensions: 9999.00 pounds
• Native resolution: 320 x 240
• Display size: 3.5

Features

• Combines a Pocket PC PDA device with a powerful GPS navigation system
• Contains mobile versions of Microsoft Office applications, a music player, games, photo viewing, and more
• Features 3D door-to-door maps and voice directions, all at the press of a button
• Back-on-track rerouting quickly recalculates your route when you take a wrong turn
• Comes with all North American maps, including Hawaii, Alaska, Puerto Rico, and Guam, on CD-ROM

Amazon.com Product Description
If you're on the go a lot, you need a device that can combine personal information management, scheduling, and navigation features into a single, pocketable device. The PiN 570 from Navman is just such a device. It can change the way you work and play.

Navigate to contacts in your Outlook address book.

Fits in the palm of your hand.

Enter a contact, make an appointment, and get voice guidance to that appointment location when you need it. And while you're at it, enjoy the convenience of a Windows Mobile device with mobile versions of your favorite applications, music, games, photos, and more.

Navigation and PDA features, all in one.

Because the PiN 570 is made by Navman, it's first and foremost a navigation device. The unit's GPS navigation system will guide you with 3-D door-to-door maps and voice directions, all at the press of a button. You can travel directly to your Microsoft Outlook contacts using the PiN 570's integrated 12-channel GPS receiver, which is powered by Navman's SmartST 2005 software. Turn-by-turn voice guidance, back-on-track rerouting, a choice of 2-D or 3-D map perspectives, a points-of-interest database for your map region, and multiple route planning are just some of the features packed into the PiN 570's navigation software. You'll also get the convenience of area avoidance--if traffic is bad, you can tell the unit to automatically change your route and keep you moving. The Navman PiN 570 comes complete with North American maps, including Hawaii, Alaska, Puerto Rico and Guam, on CD-ROM, so you can easily download your preferred region to an included SecureDigital (SD) Card.

The PiN 570 sports a 3.5-inch landscape LCD with 320 x 240 resolution and support for up to 65,000 colors--plenty of room for detailed map views, as well as for the unit's integrated PDA functions. Get all the functionality you expect from a Windows Mobile 2003 device, including pocket versions of Microsoft Outlook, Word, and Excel. You can also listen to music and MP3 files, play games, or store and view digital photos. The PiN 570's interface is touchscreen-enabled, so every function is just a few taps away. And because the 570 fits in the palm of your hand, you can move from car to car or set out on foot with powerful features at your fingertips. From your desk to your dashboard, the Navman PiN 570 will navigate you through your day.

What's in the Box
PiN 570 unit, SmartST 2005 3D navigation software with preloaded TeleAtlas Mapping Data, AC charger, DC in-car charger, USB data transfer cable, flexible windshield mount, and leather-feel carry case.

Customer Reviews

Decent PDA/GPS For a very decent price
I like the Navman, for the price, and the features you get. I did find, like the other writer did, that it can take some time to acquire the GPS signal, sometimes. Usually, when it does have a delay, it's like 2 to three minutes. I've never experienced anything close to an hour.

It can be somewhat cumbersome to enter addresses, but, overall, I think it's a great little gadget.

Also, to the writer who stated that the pegs are in the wrong place on the cradle for the unit? Those pegs are actually adjustable, so you can slide them to where you need them.

buy a GPS with SIRF star III chip
Pros:
- It was the cheapest PocketPC with GPS in the market when I bought it a year ago.

Cons:
- no built-in Wi-Fi. Need to buy a SDIO Wi-Fi card for internet access.
- the GPS signal reception is very poor.
- The navigation software Navman SmartST doesn't have TTS (Text-To-Speech). For example, it only announces "turn right in 0.1 mile" rather than "turn right on Main Street in 0.1 mile."

I would recommend a GPS with SIRF star III chip for much better signal reception.

You get what you pay for
Inexpensive PDA with a bonus - a NAV system.

One big inconvenience: The PDA (yup, Windows based) crashes every time the calendar pops up a reminder for an appointment. Tech supports response: re-boot.

Also, the maps are not the most accurate to the street address level. There are several occasions where the NAV system could leave me a block or two from the true destination. We're talking major city & suburbs, here, not rural.

Lastly, the addresses are clumsy to input. They require a zipcode or township in many cases. It will allow you to choose a destination from your contact list, but that never does well. If the address is not entered EXACTLY as the Navman expects it, you will have to re-enter it in the format Navman wants.

For example,
123 N. Main St.
Suite 200
Anytown, USA 12345

It won't recognize N. Main St.
You will have to change it to Main and it will give you choices, one of which will be N Main St. You have to choose the item & confirm.
Then you will have to re-enter the house number & confirm twice.

Cleverly, it offers an opportunity to save the 'revised' address, in my case, without the suite number which is important, and ALL IN CAPS. That shouldn't be a problem, but it then replaces the correct address in Outlook with the incomplete/improper Navman address.

This process could be made much simpler. I hope they put some thought into that.

Again, you get what you pay for.