ACER F900

ACER F900

ACER F900 is another WinMo 6.1 touchscreen phone from Acer with their special user interface. Just like M900, F900 also comes with a big 3.8″ screen and high speed connectivity.

The rest of the specs is pretty much the same such as the 3.2MP auto-focus camera with flash, GPS, FM Radio, voice recorder, voice command, and expandable memory. However the difference comes in with the installed applications: Internet Explorer 6 supporting JavaScript and Adobe Flash Lite. Also Acer calls F900 a 3.75G phone (HSDPA/HSUPA). There’s Wi-Fi too of course.

(Via NaviGadget.)

ACER M900

ACER M900

You’re looking at the new ACER M900. Unlike X960 and DX900, Acer M900 boasts a full slide out QWERTY keyboard, and a large 3.8″ screen (even bigger than that Samsung Omnia HD)

ACER M900 runs on Windows Mobile 6.1 and offers Outlook and Office. It supports 3.5 HSDPA connectivity, and the embedded fingerprint sensor puts your mind at ease about security issues.

Other features of the M900 include GPS, FM Radio, voice recorder and voice-command, as well as expandable memory, and a 5MP autofocus camera with flash.

Omnitech 4.3" Widescreen GPS

Omnitech 4.3" Widescreen GPS

A lot of folks are asking about the Omnitech GPS - a widescreen GPS that comes pre-loaded with US and Canadian NAVTEQ maps. The unit comes with a SiRF star III chipset, a 4.3 inch touchscreen, a 12V power cord and an A/C home charger. The unit also comes with Text-to-speech, which is the ability to say road names. Immensely helpful when roads are closely situated, not such a big deal when you are in a more remote situation where the road that you are going to turn onto is the only one for a mile....

The price has been all over the place on the unit, so shop around if you are interested in buying this.

In doing some searches around the internet, I found several resources where users wrote in about the unit freezing up when calculating routes, and that it creates some very odd routes; definitely a bad sign. To be balanced there are some people who rave about the performance and the ease of use. I still go back to the idea that it’s easy to design a GPS, but it’s hard to design a good GPS; I am not yet convinced that this is a good GPS.

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(Via GPS Lodge.)

the new Acer P700 series

the new Acer P700 series: "

Acer launched a new range of GPS navigation systems called P700. These will supplement the current models Acer P600 and the Acer V200 that we had already mentioned on Navigadget.

The new P700 will have the largest screen of all of the above measuring at 4.3 inches. New on the P700 series is the new version 7 of ALK CoPilot navigation software.

CoPilot 7 has a new interface which is more pleasant and easier to read. A new functionality called Pin-Lock will allow the users to lock the device just like you can do on your phone with a PIN number.

The maps for the P700 series will be provided by Navteq and are from the fourth quarter of 2006. Currently the P700 series will have two models: Acer P710 which will come with a 512MB SD card for regional maps and Acer P730 that has a 2GB SD card for maps of the whole Europe.

The difference between P710 and P730 is that latter also supports RDS-TMC traffic information.

Main features:

• Integrated SiRF III GPS receiver


• 4.3″ LCD display at 16/9 and 480x272 resolution supporting upto 16.7 million colors


• 64 MB of ROM and 64 MB of RAM


• SD/MMC port


• 1100mAh Li-Ion battery - lasts upto 3 hours


• 1.5 Watt internal speaker


• Windows CE.net 5.0


• ALK CoPilot 7 navigation software with maps provided by Navteq; radars preloaded


• RDS/TMC Premium traffic Information (only on P730)


• Image viewer

Acer P710 will come with regional maps and cost 199€ and the same P710 with maps of Europe will cost 249€ - both available in October…

(Via NaviGadget.)

Acer brings us more Ferrari gadgets: bellissimo Pocket PC

Acer brings us more Ferrari gadgets: bellissimo Pocket PC: "

Acer continues to release products devaluing using the Ferrari brand, with the introduction of a pocket PC with GPS. Nothing particularly special about that, but it does include the latest Navteq maps, something called Powerful Trip Planning which (surprise surprise) will show you ‘Ferrari Points of Interest, like Ferrari dealers and museums.’

Ferrari-tuned specifications:

• Wi-Fi and Bluetooth connectivity


• 122 grams


• 58 x 108 x 16.8 mm


• 2.8-inch screen


• Touchscreen GPS


• Microsoft Windows Mobile 5.0 OS includes Pocket Outlook, MSN, Word, Excel and the new Power Point Mobile.


• SirfStarIII LP GPS receiver


• Navteq pre-installed maps (latest 2006 issues)

I though the whole point of a Ferrari was that by the time you knew where you were you had left anyway?

(Via Gadgetell.)