LG’s other new addition to the LN series at CES 2008 was LN845 which boasts a sharp 4.3″ screen, 5 hours battery life, and bluetooth phone pairing for handsfree calls.
It’s only difference from LN855 is that LG LN845 does not have an TMC receiver for traffic updates.
No word on pricing just yet but we just the word from Engadget that they’ve already got their FCC approval meaning they’re well on their way to hit the market here in the U.S.
(Via NaviGadget.)
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Turning it on: after playing a cozy tune it displays a legal notice (you can't turn this off) and you have to agree to there mumbo jumbo every time before using the unit.
About the setup: I set the time to West coast time and it still displays East coast time.
Satellite Lock: to get a position for the first time took 10min and a hot start takes about 3min (compare this to my old GPS which does it in 1min and 15s resp.)
Under GPS status it will give you some GPS information and elevation but there is no screen for headings, compass, elevation, route profile.
Setting up for a trip: there is no software available that lets you do this on your computer. Doing it on the unit is almost impossible because it try’s to fill in all the blanks. I try to enter "Mountain Highway". After I type in the M it searches the database and if there is no Mountain Hwy in the database you are not able to enter it. (sorry this area is not in the our database it will be next year. We charge you for the map update of course.) Furthermore the Keyboard layout is ABC and not QWERTY which seems really strange. When you try to enter a postal code f.e.: V7X 1G7 you have to switch between the letters and numbers screen every time.
Now I am trying to enter my home location and with some difficulties I manage that. For some unexplained reason it always returns me to Ottawa and I have to scroll across the continent to continue entering a go to location. My friend lives at an existing location and it allows me to enter it. The GPS calculates a route. Now I am on my way…the units says “drive safely” (how presumptuous and annoying…but it can be turned off unlike the startup legal mumbo jumbo) and here is the one thing that this unit does well. When you loose your way it recalculates the position and adjusts the route on the fly.
Compared to other GPS this unit does not live up to its hype. It lacks some basic GPS functionality. It has no statistics screen, no compass and a total lack of elevation information. LG tried to build a unit the general public can use but made it so unintuitive that all the great features like touch screen and Bluetooth get lost in the translation.
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