Hirdetés
Mapilot M6000
The Mapilot is tiny. It’s the smallest from the whole competition but I risk saying that we won’t find any smaller navi on the market. This doesn’t mean that it didn’t receive a 3.5" size QVGA resolution display, but it lacks any other useless features. Based on its shape it resembles TomTom navis, the manufacturer might have had the purpose to make them easily mixed up, or maybe they just dind’t have any better idea. In the box we can find, besides the device, the passive holder, the car charger and a stylus. There is no mains charger.
The Mapilot also runs Windows CE Net v4.2 Core on a Samsung processor, but the speed is only 300 Mhz in this case. This doesn’t affect navigation speed, so there are no problems here. It reacts a bit slower when watching movies; I didn’t experience any slowdowns when listening to MP3s. The built-in SirfStar III antenna finds satellites quickly and with precision. It kept the signal alive without problems during navigation too. Besides the power button, the Mapilot only includes a volume button and nothing else. The small sizes means a relatively small weight, it’s easy to put it in our pockets; this is the device I consider the most suitable replacement for paper maps when taking a walk in the city.
In spite of the small size, the manufacturer succeeded in including a 950 mAh battery and since the processor with a lower clock speed is less hungry, the Mapilot can take pride in having a considerable amount of online time. It can navigate for much more than two hours when fully charged and this is a great performance. Unfortunately nothing can be perfect, so the luminosity and color-richness of the display is not really what I would have expected, although this is not so important during navigation, until the sun starts to shine. And then the voice navigation helps; this is where I have found the next flaw: sound quality is not the best. I would say it sounds as if the navigator was talking from a bucket.
The device is TMC-ready, so if we obtain a proper antenna we can easily avoid traffic jams, for example in London. Overall, the Mapilot is a friendly little piece of hardware.
Pros: small size, long battery time.
Cons: sound quality, lack of mains charger.
A cikk még nem ért véget, kérlek, lapozz!
