Strada’s full Europe map is somewhat competitive inside the pre-2007 Schengen borders, but it has serious issues at us. It’s capable of receiving TMC with the help of the (attention!) external, separately sold unit. Its battery can officially run for 4 hours without an external power supply, this is very welcome. The USB is only 1.1, another amateur mistake.

The general assembly quality is outstanding; Panasonic was always good at that. Besides navigation, the device can also function as a Bluetooth handsfree, which works fine, and we can also use it for viewing pictures. The greatest shot, movie playback, has been left out, though such a large screen is screaming for such a feature.

At the moment of writing this article, Strada is available for 310-350 EUR, unfortunately the package is far from the others for such a price, not even with the large display. If we’d have a “not really recommended” award, I would give it to the Strada immediately and I would like to advise the dear designers to go and visit a store selling navis and take a look at how is such a device made good.