Telecom Lead India: MapmyIndia, a provider of digital
maps, navigation and location-based services, has launched CarPad 5, a
connected car product.
Built upon Android OS, CarPad 5 is an all-In-One GPS
Navigator, Smart Phone and 3G Tablet. The CarPad 5 runs on 1GHz Samsung
processor (Cortex A8, S5PV210) and features 5 inch capacitive touch screen.
The navigation device has built-in 3G & Wi-Fi and
comes preloaded with Aura, MapmyIndia’s fully 3D and connected GPS navigation
interface.
MapmyIndia CarPad 5 is priced at Rs 19,990 and contains
the CarPad windshield mount and Car charger.
Rakesh Verma, managing director at MapmyIndia said that
the CarPad 5 is one of the many in-car productivity gadgets we plan to launch
in the near future.
The navigation device also features Aura maps, which the
company claims offers real-time traffic updates, house level search, security
(track and trace) and discount offers in the vicinity.
The Aura map covers over 6.3 million places, 5,79,000
towns and villages, 4000 cities at street-level, house-level data for 36 cities
and 3D landmarks and building footprints for 34 major cities.
The navigation device is 3G enabled and allows users to
call, message, mail and chat, search and browse the web at high speed, and
access social networks.
MapmyIndia and Telenav launch mobile app offering house number
search on iPhones
A few months back, MapmyIndia and Telenav, a provider of
personalized navigation, launched a mobile app that offers house number search
and navigation on iPhones.
MapmyIndia Navigator by Telenav provides voice-guided
turn-by-turn GPS navigation, moving maps and access to millions of places for
easy search and discovery.
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