ViaMichelin Navigation X-980T Europe: more than just navigation 1 2 3 Marketed on 16 October, this new portable navigation system will be more than just perfectly integrated in your car. Its remarkable features include excellent European mapping, a panoramic screen, the capacity to be twinned with a mobile phone (via Blue Tooth) and exclusive contents based on Michelin travel guides (MICHELIN® Guide and Green Guide).
Two screens in one! The new ViaMichelin Navigation X-980T Europe features a 4.3 inch (10.9 cm) panoramic screen, the maximum size currently available on the market. But the real exclusivity resides in the double navigation screen, which displays simultaneously the route you are taking and a 2D zoom-in focus on the next turn. You can therefore see where you are on the map and,
at the same time, visualise exactly the lane into which you must turn. This double display is inspired by the best navigation practices. If you sometimes had doubts on changing direction, perhaps at roundabouts, any ambiguity is now ruled out.
Optimal integration in your car The ViaMichelin Navigation X-980T Europe has been designed to fit perfectly into your car with an easy to instal and remove car mounting stand and an understated, elegant appearance. It also features a simplified finger-tip menu and its function buttons are immediately visible on the front. Above all, this PND has an 'intelligent' multipurpose stand. Connected directly to the power cable, it allows you to automatically recharge the PND battery. It also swivels and, thanks to its 3 Watt integrated loud speaker, offers the highest sound quality on the market. The integrated GPS antenna (SIRF Star III technology), for its part, ensures GPS reception even through heat-reflective windscreens.
Exceptional communicability for stress-free driving! The second asset of the ViaMichelin Navigation X-980T Europe is its secure hands-free phone function. Enjoy using its simplified mode of BlueTooth®. connection to mobile phones. After connecting the phone and activating the BlueTooth® function (list of of compatible phones available on
www.viamichelin.com/navigationgps)
your PND becomes a hands-free phone!
Guiding is available in 15 languages and what's more a text-to-speech feature is available in 6 languages. This reads out street names, road signs and traffic messages: the PND tells you to 'turn right into Oxford Street' (and no longer simply 'turn right!') or to 'head to Windsor' (and not simply 'continue straight ahead!') The ViaMichelin Navigation X-980T Europe is therefore
extremely precise and most user-friendly. ViaMichelin traffic information is given to you in real time with alerts on traffic conditions and unforeseen road incidents: traffic jams, slow-moving traffic, road works, contra-flow systems, weather alerts... A bypass route is systematically proposed but never imposed.
Fixed speed cameras are integrated in the PND for France and Belgium and can be downloaded for other European countries.
A unique Guide for made-to-measure trips! The ViaMichelin Navigation X-980T includes mapping for 20 European countries detailed down to the street level. As an exclusive advantage you can pick and choose from the full, detailed selection of
51,000 hotels and restaurants appearing in the MICHELIN® Guides 2006 Europe and
19,000 tourist sights from the Michelin Green Guides: a unique market offering!
The practical advantage of the ViaMichelin Navigation X-980T Europe is the hands-free phone function allowing you to directly reserve the hotel, restaurant or tourist sight of your choice.
Practical and multi-purpose The ViaMichelin Navigation X-980T Europe is a real treasure trove of information with
2.5 million useful addresses to help you in your travel: car parks, service stations, post offices, food shops, hospitals, police stations, camp sites, etc.
It also proposes
5 new types of route for made-to-measure trips: the shortest, the quickest, that recommended by ViaMichelin (combining comfort, safety and simplicity), and pedestrian and bicycle routes. With this multipurpose system, park your car somewhat out of town and continue on foot into the historic centre. This software also allows you to add an unlimited number of stopping stages and you can specify routes without tolls. It also features an intuitive and rapid address search thanks to the smart keyboard.
Thanks to the
PC Content Manager application you can manage and personalise your contents, for instance by exporting to your portable navigation system a map from the
www.viamichelin.com website.
Before, during and after your trip, you can therefore construct and alter your route just as you like on the basis of the tourist sights, hotels and restaurants shown on the map. With the X-980T, you'll be more and better mobile!
The ViaMichelin Navigation X-980T Europe will be on sale as of
16 October at specialised retailers for approximately
£449 incl. VAT (649 €) and is guaranteed two years.