Blaupunkt has announced the TravelPilot Lucca 3.5, a circular GPS unit. It is presently aimed for Europe’s roads. This TravelPilot Lucca 3.5 features a 3.5-inch LCD, a Centrality Atlas III Dual Core 400MHz processor, detailed mapping of the UK and Ireland, major European roads, and detailed European mapping available at extra cost.

It also has a SD/SDHC/MMC slot, and locations of speed traps to save you a ticket.
It calculates the quickest, shortest and optimal route in record time and it even overlooks typing mistakes in the destination input. To make sure that nothing else can hold you back, there’s also dynamic routing around traffic congestion on the route up ahead. And you are warned of traffic congestion even when route guidance is not activated.

Thanks to the driver assistance functions the TravelPilot 3.5 Edition takes you anywhere you want, safely, reliably and more conveniently than ever before. Even speed limit warnings appear on the screen. Some of the additional features include:-

• Portable navigation with anti-glare, high-contrast 3.5″ TFT touch screen colour display in 4:3 format,
• Extremely fast navigation with GPS QuickFinder thanks to Centrality Atlas III Dual Core 400 MHz processor,
• Street level mapping for UK/ Ireland incl. new 100% Ireland coverage and Major Roads of Europe pre-flashed; street level mapping for further 21 W-EU counties included on DVD,
• Automatic switch form day to night mode,
• Display of arrival time, time to destination and distance to destination,
• Route planning with several stopovers,
• SD/SDHC/MMC card reader to play navigation data, MP3/WMA*/OGG** music files or JPEG picture files from MMC/SD card,
• Music player & photo viewer; listen to music and navigate or view pictures at the same time,
• Optimal route – combination of the shortest and quickest route.

Written by Mahesh Chawla in GPS