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nav-u promo film

Here's a short promo video we created for the latest Sony nav-u navigation system.

Sony 'Drag & Drive' GIGA-Panel car stereo offers easy MP3 on the move

Does your car stereo have a removable front panel to deter thieves? Do you stick the panel in your glove box or under the driver's seat thus rendering the whole feature pointless?

Well Sony has come up with a reason to take your removable panel indoors - you can attach it to your PC and load it up with 1Gb of tunes via an onboard Flash drive.

The new Sony MEX-1GP GIGA Panel car stereo is fully drag and drop - no software required - which means the Flash drive supports MP3 and WMA but not Sony's own ATRAC format.

The MEX-1GP also has a full featured CD tuner that supports playback of CD-DA, MP3, WMA and ATRAC/ATRAC3Plus.

The CD tuner (not the Flash drive) features BBE-MP - a technology that restores and enhances lost harmonics on compressed audio files, making their dynamic range the same as CD. It also expands the dynamic range of CD up to Super Audio CD or DVD Audio range.

Key features:

• 1GB Flash memory
• Front + Rear/sub
• Supplied IR Card Remote Commander
• Mini USB Port (front panel)
• Supplied USB Cable
• USB Connecting LED
• 4 x 52W Power output
• 24 Bit DAC converter
• BBE MP high definition sound enhancer, MP3 sound enhancement (CD playback)
• EQ3 Stage2 sound equalizer
• Supports Windows 2000 XP OS

What the fog is that? - Sony NVX-P1 (NVXP1) Test - Hands-on Review Part 2

It was foggy here over the last couple of days. Very foggy.

The fog made me notice a great feature of the Sony NVX-P1 sat nav that I hadn't spotted before. Basically, the on-screen maps give you a view of where you are, even when the visibility is very poor. I think this improves road safety - you can predict turns in the road when you can't even see them. It's a bit like having an in-car radar.

Sony NVX-P1 (NVXP1) Test - Hands-on Review Part 1

The Sony NVX-P1 in-car navigation system turned up in the post yesterday. Before I went on holiday I had been chasing a friend at Sony for a test model of the latest Sony GPS navigation system. I had hoped that the NVX-P1 review model would turn up just before I flew to Sicily as it would have been a good test to use it to navigate round somewhere I'd never been before. As it turns out I navigated round Sicily with the Avis equivalent of a Fisher Price 'my first map' and got back from holiday to find the NVX-P1 test unit waiting for me.

Sony NVX-P1 (Personal) Navigation Device

UPDATE - Part 1 of the NVX-P1 review is now available.