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User's Manual in English
English Version
R01
Aug. 2007
Trademarks
All brand and product names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their
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The information in this manual is subject to change without notice.

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  • Page 1 User’s Manual in English English Version Aug. 2007 Trademarks All brand and product names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. Note The information in this manual is subject to change without notice.

  • Page 2: Before You Start

    Before You Start ※ Precautions and Notices ※ For your own safety, do not operate the controls of the product while driving. ※ Use this product prudently. The product is intended to be used only as a navigation aid. It is not for precise measurement of direction, distance, location or topography.

  • Page 3: Other Features

    - Using a POI (point of interest) - Using Favorites (personal stored locations) - Using History (previous destinations) ※ Recording and playback of journeys ※ Viewing modes for different needs and situations: - 2D or 3D - Daytime or nighttime view - Turn-by-turn view of the route - Driving direction of the route Other Features...
  • Page 4 Part I. Basic Operations Part I guides you through the process of getting your device running, familiarizes you with the external components, and tells you how to customize system settings.

  • Page 5: Getting Started

    1. Getting Started This chapter gives you step by step instruction for the initial startup and introduces you to the external components of your device. 1.1 Setting the ON/OFF Switch The ON/OFF switch should be set to the ON position for normal operation. Pull out the stylus pen and use it to slide the ON/OFF switch to the ON (left) position.

  • Page 6: Connecting To Ac Power And Charging The Battery

    1.2 Connecting to AC Power and Charging the Battery Fully charge the battery before using your device for the first time. Connect the adapter cable to the left side of your device. Plug the AC adapter into a wall outlet. ※...

  • Page 7: Using Your Device In A Vehicle

    1.3 Using Your Device in a Vehicle A car holder and a car charger are supplied with your device. Using the Car Holder ※ CAUTION: 1. Select an appropriate location for the car holder. Never place the holder where the driver’s field of vision is blocked. 2.

  • Page 8: Connecting The Car Charger

    Connecting the Car Charger The car charger supplies power to your device when you are using the device in a car. ※ CAUTION: To protect your device against sudden surges in current, connect the car charger only after the car engine has been started.

  • Page 9: Understanding Hardware Features

    1.4 Understanding Hardware Features NOTE: Depending upon the specific model purchased, the color of your device may not exactly match the device shown in this manual. Front Components Charge indicator GPS signal indicator Blue tooth indicator (disabled) Touch screen Component Description Charge Indicator Battery Full –...

  • Page 10: Back Components

    Back Components Reset Button ON / OFF Switch Speaker Component Description Speaker Sends out music, sounds and voice. ON/OFF Switch The main power/battery cutoff switch. Reset Button Restarts your device (soft reset).

  • Page 11: Left-Side Components

    Left-Side Components External antenna Connector Headphone Connecotor Power Connector Stylus Pen Component Description External Antenna This connector (under rubber dust cover) allows use of an optional external antenna with magnetic mount, which may be Connector positioned on top of the car for better signal reception in areas with poor reception.

  • Page 12: Right-Side Components

    Right-Side Components SD/MMC Slot Component Description SD/MMC Slot Accepts a SD (Secure Digital) or MMC (MultiMediaCard) card for accessing data such as maps and MP3 music. NOTE: Before using GPS navigation software and maps, you need to insert the storage card included with your device. Do not remove the card during GPS operation.

  • Page 13: Top Components

    Top Components Volume Volume Power Increase Decrease On/Off Component Description Turn on and turn off the power. Power ON/OFF Volume Increase Press the button to increase the volume Volume Press the button to decrease the volume Decrease...

  • Page 14: Bottom Components

    Bottom Components Stylus Pen Component Description Stylus Pen Tap on the touch screen to make selections and enter information. Pull the stylus pen out of its slot to use it, and store it in the slot when not in use.

  • Page 15: Basic Skills

    2. Basic Skills This chapter guides you through the process of using your device and familiarizes you with the basic operations such as using the stylus pen and navigation pad.. 2.1 Turning On and Off Your Device Use the power button on the top side of your device to turn on and off your device.

  • Page 16: Operating Your Device

    2.2 Operating Your Device To operate your device, use the hardware buttons and/or the stylus pen. Using Hardware Buttons Button Name Description Power On/Off Turns on and off the device. Volume Volume Increase Volume Volume Decrease Stylus Pen The stylus pen is your input device. You use it to select objects such as command and option on the screen.
  • Page 17 You can use the stylus pen to do the following actions: Touch the screen once with the stylus pen to open items or select options. Drag Hold the stylus pen on the screen and drag up/down/left/right or across the screen. Tap and hold Tap and hold the stylus until an action is complete, or a result or menu is shown.

  • Page 18: Using System Settings

    3. System Settings Your device is supplied with default settings. You may also customize the settings to suit your personal needs. Once you change settings, your new settings will remain until either you change them again, or until battery cut off switch is turned off and then back on again, which resets the unit to factory defaults.
  • Page 19 3.2 Clock To set the clock: 1. Tap the Clock button on the Setup screen. Clock Volume Language Backlight Calibration Information 2. A calendar will pop up showing TimeZone, Date and Time as shown below. TimeZone:59, (GMT + 8:00) Date: 2007-01-07 Time: 12:50:32...
  • Page 20 3. Tap the down arrow to go to the TimeZone setting as shown below. TimeZone (GMT+08:00) 59, Perth Tap the right arrow or left arrow to select the time zone. Tap the right arrow to “ Yes “ to switch to DST (Daylight Saving Time). Press “OK” to finish time zone setting.
  • Page 21 4. Tap the down arrow to select the date as shown below. Set Date Year 2007 Month To set “YEAR”, tap the right arrow to set “YEAR” forward, and tap the left arrow to set “YEAR” backward. You can also tap the “MONTH” and “DAY” to change the month and day. Then, press “OK”...
  • Page 22 3.3 Volume 1. Tap the Setup button on the Main screen. 2. Tap the Volume button on the Setup screen. Clock Volume Language Backlight Calibration Information To turn up the volume, tap the right arrow button. To turn down the volume, tap the left arrow button. Volume Click Sound Tap the “OK”...
  • Page 23 3.4 Language To set the Language: 1. Tap Settings on the Main screen. 2. Tap the Language button on the Setup screen. Clock Volume Language Backlight Calibration Information 3. Tap the language button to select your language. Set Language English There are English, French, German, Italy, Spanish, Netherlandish, Hungarian, Danish, Greek, Swedish, Estonian, Canadian French, Latin Spanish, Brazil Portuguese, Mexican Spanish, European Portuguese, Icelandic, Ukrainian,...
  • Page 24 3.5 Backlight Tap Setup on the Main screen. Tap the “Backlight” button on the Setup screen. Clock Volume Language Backlight Calibration Information Setting the backlight level Tap the right arrow button to increase the backlight level, and tap the left arrow to decrease the backlight level.
  • Page 25 3.6 Calibration You can calibrate the touch screen if it is not responding accurately to your stylus pen taps. This is not an usual occurrence and when the screen loses alignment, please calibrate the screen to get back to normal display. Tap Setup on the Main screen.
  • Page 26 3.7 Information 1. Tap Setup on the Main screen. 2. Tap the “Information” button on the Setup screen. Clock Volume Language Backlight Calibration Information 3. The Information screen will show system information such as RAM, FLASH, and OS as shown below. RAM : 64 MB FLASH : 32 MB OS : Windows CE...
  • Page 27 Part II. Media Part II introduces MP3 Player, Photo Viewer, Video Player.,etc...
  • Page 28 Using Media Tap the Meida button on the Main screen. 2007 01-07 21:54:05 Navi Media Setup The Media screen contains three buttons as shown below. The following sections describe these three buttons and their functions.

  • Page 29: Using Mp3 Player

    4. Using MP3 Player This chapter tells you how to play MP3 files using your device The MP3 Player program turns your device into an MP3 player. It features: ※ Playback of MP3 and WAV files ※ Basic playback controls such as play, pause, stop, next and previous ※...

  • Page 30: Preparing Mp3 Files For Your Device

    To exit the program, just tap in the lower right of the screen. 4.2 Preparing MP3 Files for Your Device With the card reader, you can easily copy MP3 files from your computer to a storage card. The MP3 Player can detect MP3 files in all folders of a storage card.

  • Page 31: Mp3 Playback Control

    4.4 MP3 Playback Control You can control the MP3 Player via control buttons. See the table below for details: Control Button Name Description Previous Move to the previous file. Play Play the playback. Stop Stop the playback. Next Move to the next file. Decrease the volume.
  • Page 32 2. You can use the following buttons to add or delete songs in your play list： ※Add Song Add a new song to your play list. Tap Add Song icon 3. Choose a song that you wish to add to your play list . Tap Add Song button at the bottom of the screen.
  • Page 33 4. Delete Song Remove one song from your play list. Choose a song that you wish to delete and tap Delete Song icon 5. Delete All Remove all songs from your play list. Tap Delete All icon on the right toolbar.

  • Page 34: Using Photo Player

    5. Using Photo Player This chapter tells you how to play Photo files using your device The Photo Player program turns your device into a Photo player. It features: ※ Playback of JPEG files ※ Basic playback controls such as the picture with zoom in/out, rotation in full screen.

  • Page 35: Preparing Photo Files For Your Device

    To exit the program, just tap in the lower right of the screen. 5.3 Preparing Photo Files for Your Device With the card reader, you can easily copy Photo files from your computer to a storage card. The Photo Player can detect Photo files in all folders of a storage card.

  • Page 36: Display Mode

    Display Normal Display Right Rotate Play file in Right Rotation Left Rotate Play file in Left Rotation 5.5 Display Mode You may browse through the pictures in four different modes, file explore mode, thumbnail mode, full screen mode and slide show mode. 1 File explore mode 1.

  • Page 37: Full Screen Mode

    3 Full screen mode 1. Tap Photo Player on the Main screen to switch to the program. 2. Tap the photo file in the window and double click. 1. Select the file 2. Double Click 3. The selected file will be shown in full screen mode.

  • Page 38: Slide Show Mode

    4. The photo program will automatically detect the photo files on your flash cards. If you are going to browse the next photo, please tap icon and it will show the next image. If you are going to browse the previous photo, please tap icon and it will show the previous image.

  • Page 39: Browse Photo

    5.6 Browse Photo It supports 24 -bit true color images. You can browse the picture with zoom in/out and rotation in full screen 1Full screen 2Zoom in/out 1. Tap Photo Player on the Main screen to switch to the program. 2.
  • Page 40 4. Tap icon and you may browse the photo in zoom out mode. 3Photo browse in Rotation 1. Tap Photo Player on the Main screen to switch to the program. 2. Tap the photo file in the window and double click it. Add 2 Landscape mode (rotate left &...
  • Page 41 3. Tap icon, the image will be roated to the right. 4. Tap icon, the image will be roated to the left.

  • Page 42: Using Video Player

    6. Using Video Player This chapter tells you how to play Video files using your device The Video Player program turns your device into an Video player. It features: ※ Playback of WMV, ASF and MPEG (Microsoft format) files ※ Basic playback controls such as play, pause, stop, next and previous ※...

  • Page 43: Preparing Video Files For Your Device

    6.2 Preparing Video Files for Your Device With the card reader, you can easily copy Video files from your computer to a storage card. The Video Player can detect Video files in all folders of a storage card. 6.3 Playing Video Files 1.
  • Page 44 Decrease the volume. Volume The indicator on the upper right corner of the panel will show the current volume level. Increase the volume. Volume The indicator on the upper right corner of the panel will show the current volume level. Repeat all Repeat all Single playback...
  • Page 45 3. Choose a file that you wish to add to your play list . Tap Add file button at the bottom of the screen. The new video file will appear in your play list. 4. Delete file Remove one file from your play list. Choose a file that you wish to delete and tap Delete file icon 5.

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