Route 66 Mobile 7 - Britain Bluetooth GPS Kit (Series 60)

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Description

Route 66 turns your smartphone all at a sudden into a powerful navigation system up to house number accuracy
Simply slot in the supplied memory card & go! Turn-by-turn voice instructions and on-screen directions will guide you from your current position to the destination that you have entered. You can add any number of intermediate waypoints to your route that you may have selected from your personal contacts, your favourites and your most recent destinations as well. If you miss a turn, then Route 66 immediately recalculates your route.

You can automatically download up-to-date traffic information from the Route 66 internet site via a GPRS connection to your smartphone, even when you are on the road. Completly free, Route 66 automatically connects and downloads traffic data whilst driving and used in conjuction with the dynamic routing feature, safely guides you around traffic jams or accidents.

You can display the map in night colours to keep a clear view on the road even when you are driving at night or in bird view to display the map as you would see it if you could fly like a bird. In addition to all this, you can navigate to any of the many points-of-interest like hotels, restaurants and petrol stations. You can even dial them directly to make for example a hotel reservation or inquiry before going there!

Features:

• Navigate in Britain from door to door on your Nokia smartphone
• Turn-by-turn voice instructions and on-screen directions
• Keep a clear view on the road at night with night colours
• Unlimited use without further subscriptions
• Language(s) of user interface and voice instructions: American-English, British-English, Czech, Danish, Dutch, German, Greek, Finnish, French, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Romanian, Spanish and Swedish
• Address search engine with SMS-like text input
• Add your personal contacts as waypoints to your route
• Avoid traffic jams, road works and accidents with dynamic routing via GPRS in Great Britain
• Fly like a bird over your route
• Direct dialing to points-of-interest
• Professional geographic data from leading in-car navigation manufacturers
• Geographic coverage (Q3-2005): Great Britain
• More than 78,000 points-of-interest
• Plug & Play installation

Features:

• Dynamic routing
  With Route 66 you can automatically download up-to-date traffic information from the internet site via a GPRS* connection to your smartphone, even when you are on the road.
• Voice instructions and on-screen directions
  When your smartphone is connected to the GPS receiver, you only need to enter your destination once after which Mobile 7 - Britain will do all the work for you. As soon as your exact position has been determined, turn-by-turn voice instructions and on-screen directions will guide you to your destination. If you miss a turn and go off course, your route is recalculated immediately. This way you can always focus on the traffic that is ahead of you.
• Bird view and Night Colours
  Beside the usual two-dimensional display of the map, with Route 66 you can switch to bird view, showing the map on the screen of your smartphone as you would see it if you could fly like a bird. You can also switch to night colours to keep a clear view on the road while driving at night. This feature shows the map in colours of reduced intensity.
• Points-of-interest
  Besides towns, cities and streets, Route 66 contains no less than 78,000 points-of-interest like hotels, restaurants and petrol stations, most of which together with their addresses and telephone numbers. You can search for points-of-interest in a radius of 10 (6), 20 (12), 50 (30) or 100 (60) kilometres (miles) from your current position and dial them directly to make for example a hotel reservation or inquiry before going there.
• Personal preferences
  With Route 66 you can set such personal preferences as the distance units (miles or kilometres), the volume of the voice instructions (from weak to loud), automatic map rotation (on or off), the type of route (shortest or fastest), the means of transportation (car, lorry or pedestrian) and your personal speed profile.
• Waypoints
  With Route 66 you can add waypoints to your route by choosing them from the points-of-interest database, your personal contacts, your most popular destinations, your most recent destinations or simply by pointing on a location on the map.

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Which Phones with which Memory Card? (minimum of 256MB required)

If you do not have a device which accepts RS-MMC cards, you may copy the contents onto the correct memory card which is accepted by your device (i.e microSD etc.)

Your smartphone must have the following specifications:

• A free slot for a MultiMediaCard (DV RS-MMC Mobile)
• Bluetooth wireless technology
• Symbian OS v6.1 or higher
• Series 60 platform 1.0 or higher
• Optional: a GPRS connection to download up-to-date traffic information
• You must have a PC with a USB interface to install another map and/or other voice instructions