Cobra Electronics has unveiled its latest handheld navigation device, known as the NAV ONE 2100, which is touted to be integrated with a new My Favourite Brands feature that allows the user to keep store up to 600 ‘brands’, such as restaurants, retail chains, and coffee shops, that can afterward be accessed through the touch of a button. Once selected, the companies’ brand icons will come out on the map to demonstrate all their locations.
Integrated with a compacted design, the latest NAV ONE 2100 brags an easy to use interface, and 3.5-inch ultra-bright colour touch-screen display, and thousands of points of interest (POIs), besides functioning in weather conditions starting from -20 degrees Celcius to 70 degrees Celcius. Map data is delivered by Tele Atlas.
Richard Singerman, Vice President of Marketing for AVS Technologies, said,
As one of the before time entrants to the handheld navigation category, Cobra’s devices are founded on technology that’s tried and true.” “Mobile navigation is not any longer an opulence item; it’s a must-have for any driver. By providing the sports, design elements and price point drivers want, the NAV ONE 2100 is one more step toward opening mobile navigation to the masses.
The NAV ONE 2100 is too traffic-enabled, i.e., with a discretionary traffic receiver and subscription, it is claimed to be capable of receiving traffic data for 50 main metropolitan areas in the United States through four colour-coded levels of traffic flow info. Traffic info is expected to be availed in Montreal and Toronto in the second half of 2007. A patent-pending Compare Routes sports allow the driver opt from two on-screen routing options. Cobra’s NAV ONE 2100 could be availed in Q2 at an MSRP of $449.99.
