20th of November 2009
- Text to Speech in English states the next manuever by name like the street name or highway. The GPS 510’s translation from Text to Speech is easy to understand and natural sounding.
- A Real time traffic reciever is integrated allowing the unit to get notifications of traffic incidents allowing the chance to re route around them subscription obliged, 90 day free trial included.
- 4″ WQVGA 480 x 272 High resolution widescreen gives an increased looking at area and detail making it easier to read information and street names.
- The GPS 510 features a greatly intuitive, easy to use interface. Minimal key strokes are required to program an address, look up points of interest or find the song you want to listen to.
- Full featured audio &, video player is included to make it a great personal media player also to an unbelievable movable navigation unit. The audio player lets you to search by artist, album, genre, song or playlist and displays album art.
Portable GPS satellite navigation unit with fitted antenna will include car power adapter, USB cable, carrying case, and rechargeable battery with up to four hours of life 4″ color 480 x 272 pixels touchscreen control text to speech technology lets voice prompts announce road names over the fitted speaker will include FM TMC traffic info receiver additional subscription fees apply after free 90 day trial
Product Description, December 12, 2007:
High end audio equipment maker Harman Kardon’s continues to add hard navigation with really superb media player function in its GPS merchandise, creating a bar for navigator/personal entertainment system convergence devices. They have improved their models this year with a fuller feature set.
Feature Set
With their 1st line of GPS navigators released last year, H K wisely stuck to the basics with their navigation. Possibly that was the reason navigation worked so much better on Harman Kardon’s devices than on many other navigators made by manufactuer’s whose core business wasn’t GPS.
With basic nav nailed down but, Harman Kardon added a full feature set into this year’s models. All of the new models the GPS 310, GPS 510, and GPS 810, come with text to speech for spoken directions with real street names, a photo viewer and MP3 player. The GPS 510 adds a video player and traffic data capability from TMC Clear Channel. The GPS 810 has the same features you’d get on the top end model from any maker, and many you may not expect, as well as Bluetooth connectivity, traffic data, an FM transmitter that will deliver both directions and music through an open channel on your car’s stereo system, and a nifty little Bluetooth remote. 4 inch WQVGA 480px x 272px high resolution widescreen touch screen actual size Navigation Once it knows where you’re headed, the device offers you the choice of shortest distance or most use of freeways or another high speed arterials. You will also find a trip planner that allows you to lay out and save many places, also as avoidance choices for routing your trip away from borders, toll roads, unpaved roads, ferries, and more. If you take a wrong turn or have to use a detour, the GPS 510 will automatically re route you and get you back on your way. And how did the GPS 510 perform out on the road? In a word, admirably. The responsiveness of the device and excellent user interface make it a delight to use. The GPS 510 also has an very fast and correct GPS signal processor, so it locks, calculates and recalculates routes, and responds to commands quickly. One of the hardest things for a maker without a long history in building GPS navigators is to get the routing algorithms correct, so it was nice to see that Harman Kardon looks to have gotten this right. Usually, the device decided on logical and economical routes, too something that can not be said of all GPS devices out there. Intuitive interface is easy to operate. See path planning details. Easy to understand traffic data Setup and Interface Interacting with the GPS 510’s touchscreen is delightfully intuitive and reliable, there is really no need for a stylus or navigation buttons, which simplifies things on the road. The division of the major interface into four major quadrants is a useful touch, and it is refreshing to see manufacturers moving away from uncomfortable icon based menus. Instead of drilling down through lists of icons, all of the GPS 510’s alternatives are presented on simple, color coded shapes. That said, we were a little puzzled by the use of the “Source” menu key, which takes the user back to the major menu from any point in the interface. It is a useful feature, but why not call this the “Home” button instead? The screen itself is sharp and clear, offering great resolution and clearness in all driving conditions. The map screen is a sight to behold, offering delightfully crisp 3D pictures, also as excellent responsiveness when zoomed and panned. Likewise, the interfaces for music and video playback are pleasantly uncluttered, responsive, and well thought out. One problem in our unit, though, was the lack of a sleep mode. The device’s screen will stay on at full illumination when it is left idle even when running on battery power. There is also no sleep button on the device. Accurate, in depth 3D navigation, and turn by turn directions. Use the unit’s touch screen to enter address places. An intuitive menu allows you to switch quickly between music, video, and navigation alternatives. Multimedia To ease many of the ache of to get your movies and TV shows into the right format for the GPS 510, Harman Kardon gives a brief guide for Windows Media Player users. Mac users will have to use third party media encoders to prepare their videos for the GPS 510. Lastly, battery life when playing back videos was amazingly good. After a two hour movie the GPS 510 was only down to a 40 % charge. Design The only button you will find on the device is the recessed power button on the top, right beside the SD card slot. The slot accepts cards with up to four GB of capacity. There is also a small jog wheel on the right side for volume and display light control. Below this dial you will also find a mini USB port that serves double responsibility for both charging and PC to device data transfers, also as a regular 3.5 millimeter headset jack. In the meantime, you will find a pinhole reset button on the bottom, also as a hold switch on the left side for deactivating the touchscreen. Lastly, the back of the unit sports a small audio speaker and a port for an optional GPS signal booster antenna. Pros Cons What’s in the Box
The major function of any car GPS device is to take you reliably from point A to B. Here the GPS 510 performs nicely indeed, some number of alternatives for finding your destination. To get going you may be able to choose either a street address, a particular point of interest like a gas station or restaurant, a recent or saved destination, a postal code, or an intersection if you are not sure of the exact address. To speed up text entry, the unit employs an intelligent auto completion feature that displays only the letters that spell an item in its database. This largely decreases the letters from which you must decide to tell it where you want to go.
Setup is as easy as turning the device on, since it comes loaded with maps of the U.S. And Canada. On 1st bootup, decide from English, Spanish, or French language alternatives for the spoken directions and interface menus.
The GPS 510 strives to be more than just another GPS device in a crowded market, and that is probably why Harman Kardon polished the multimedia features of the device so well. With support for MP3 and WMA music files, the music player has a refreshingly intuitive user interface and good sound quality. It is a cinch to browse music on your SD card by artist, album, genre, playlist, and song. Another nice touch is that you may keep the music playing while the unit is in navigation mode.
Video playback is equally straightforward. The device recognizes WMV9 or MPEG 4 AVI video files and presents them in a scrolling list. Press a title and you are off in movie land, complete with smooth framerates and minimal jitters throughout high action sequences. We did meet a format incompatibility with an AVI file encoded in the DIVX format. Attempting to play the file freaked the GPS 510 out, and a hard reset was obliged. Harman Kardon is clear about which file formats are supported, but many people may inadvertantly try to play a DIVX encoded AVI instead of an MPEG 4 AVI. Larger format support could be a welcome addition.
The GPS 510 is solidly built something we expect from Harman Kardon and it instills a sense of confidence that it can survive the bumps of bruises that come with the mobile lifestyle. Measuring roughly 4.5 inches large by 3.5 inches high, and a little over half an inch thick, the device is only a little chunkier than your average PDA or Smartphone. The clean lines of the GPS 510 are improved by a complete lack of buttons, all interaction with the device happens between the touchscreen and your finger. In the interest of simplicity, there isn’t a stylus that can fall to the floor and roll under the seat of your car.
Excellent user interface
Fast, correct GPS performance, good mapping potential
Polished, user friendly music and video playback
Minor lag throughout many functionings
Restricted video format compatibility
No sleep or low power standby function
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