Portable car GPS systems knowledge(1)

   Car GPS navigation is a special form of navigation, as it is not you who navigates, but computer-software that tells you how to travel to your destination. And frankly spoken, it does the job much better, than you ever could. Especially the systems with voice output are a great help, without the slightest distraction for the driver. Everybody could use one and everybody can use one, because you really do not need any special skill to operate these car GPS systems.

   As with most techniques, also in car GPS navigation there are many different solutions for the same problem. We will only treat portable solutions, so no fixed in-car vehicle GPS systems. In every category we will give some examples of typical brands and models.

   Self-contained, voice prompted car GPS systems
   The Lowrance iWAY 500C is a portable color car GPS+WAAS navigation system that shows you the way to any destination across town, or across the U.S. and Canada. Pick your destination with the touch-screen display and the iWAY 500C automatically displays the best route, and gives you turn-by-turn directions with voice and visual guidance. Substantial 20GByte internal hard drive, with 10GBytes allocated to built-in, high detail mapping and 10GBytes reserved for MP3 music storage to be used with the built-in MP3 player.