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  • Page 1 ALTINA A600 User’s Manual...
  • Page 2 English Version Nov. 2005 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 3: Before You Begin

    Before You Begin ※ 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 4: Other Features

    - 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 5 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 6: Getting Started

    1. Getting Started This chapter tells you step by step how to perform the initial startup and introduces you to the external components of your device. 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 7: Using Your Device In A Vehicle

    ※ The charge indicator glows amber when charging is in progress. Do not disconnect your device from AC power until the battery is fully charged, when the charge indicator turns green. This will take a couple of hours. 1.3 Using Your Device in a Vehicle A car holder and a car charger are supplied with your device.
  • Page 8 Œ • Component Œ Charge Indicator Glows bright amber to indicate that the battery is charging, and turns green when the battery is fully charged. • Touch Screen Displays the output of your device. Tap the screen with the stylus pen to select menu commands or enter information. Ž...

  • Page 9: Back Components

    Back Components Œ Component Œ GPS Antenna • Speaker Ž ON/OFF Switch • Reset Button Left-Side Components Description Receives signals from the GPS satellites overhead. It should be lifted up to the horizontal position for normal operation. Sends out music, sounds and voice. The main power/battery cutoff switch.
  • Page 10 • Component Œ SD/MMC Slot • Headphone Connector Connects to stereo headphones Ž Mini USB Connector Connects to the computer for data transfer. Œ Ž Description 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.

  • Page 11: Right-Side Components

    Right-Side Components Component Œ External Antenna Connector • Stylus Pen Top Components Œ Component Œ Light Sensor Automatically detect the strength of lighting Bottom Components • Description This connector (under rubber dust cover) allows use of an optional external antenna with magnetic mount, which may be positioned on top of the car for better signal reception in areas with poor reception.
  • Page 12 Œ Component Œ Power Connector • Hold Button Description Connects to the AC adapter. When hold on the button, it will freeze the operation. •...

  • Page 13: 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.. Turning On and Off Your Device Use the power button device.

  • Page 14: Using The Navigation Pad

    Button Name Power On/Off Back Zoom In Zoom Out Navigation Settings Stop Voice Using the Navigation Pad With the navigation pad, you can move up, down, left and right within a menu. To move in a direction, simply press the corresponding arrow on the button.

  • Page 15: 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 cutoff switch is turned off and then back on again, which resets the unit to factory defaults.

  • Page 16: Setting The Idle Time

    After you have made changes, press the mark button to save the changes and exit the screen. Adjusting the Brightnes Tap the bulb button to adjust. ※To darken the screen, tap the left bulb button. ※To lighten the screen, tap the right bulb button. Setting the Idle Time You can set a timer when it is idle for a set period of time.
  • Page 17 Tap the Idle Time box and select the time. The options are 1 minute, 2 minutes, 5 minutes, never. 3.3 Calibration You can calibrate the touch screen if it is not responding accurately to your stylus pen taps. Tap Setup on the Main screen. Tap the Calibration button on the Settings screen.
  • Page 18 When the target moves to another position, tap and hold at the center of the new target. Repeat each time to complete the calibration process. When completed, tap anywhere on the screen. 3.4 Power To check the remaining power level of your battery: 1.
  • Page 19 Tap Settings on the Main screen. Tap the Clock button on the Setup screen. Tap the Time Zone box to select your time zone. Tap the Date box to set the date. A calendar will pop up showing day, month and year. Tap the left arrow to go to the earlier month and year or tap the right arrow to select the later month and year.
  • Page 20 You can also tap the month and year on top of the calendar to change the month and year. Then tap the date on the calendar. 5. Before setting the time, you can tick the 24-hour format box to use 24-hour format.
  • Page 21 Tap the button to select your language. There are English, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Dutch languages available.
  • Page 22 After setting, the screen will show your setting language.
  • Page 23 Part II. GPS Navigation Part II tells you how to use the GPS navigation function...

  • Page 24: Navigation Basics

    4. Navigation Basics In this chapter you will learn how to start GPS positioning, select origin (starting point) and destination (end point). Then, you can begin your journey with the navigation program to guide you down the road. 4.1 Before You Start Before you begin navigation, you must have the right map preinstalled in your flash card.
  • Page 25 Tap the Navigator button to start the navigation program It will be loaded the Destinator map.. 6. Tap the “Accept” button...
  • Page 26 7. The main menu will be as following:. You can access many functions of your Navigation device from the Main Menu. To access the Main Menu, press the Menu button located at the bottom left of the Map Screen after starting your device. 1.
  • Page 27 4.4 N AVIGATE O AN To navigate to an address, you will need to tell Destinator the City, Street, and Street Number of your destination. 1.Click Menu button DDRESS (bottom toolbar), to open Address menu. Driving direction and street name Compass rose Zoom scroll bar Origin - Departure...
  • Page 28 2.Click the Address button 3.Use the Soft Keyboard to enter the first few characters in the City name. The scroll list will update accordingly. Select the City eg: AARONS PASS. 4.Click Street (top of the screen) to display a list of street names for the selected city.
  • Page 29 3.Use the stylus to scroll or drag the map to a specific point – tap the desired location. The Cursor Dialog opens. 4.There are several choices at this point, setting this location as the Origin, to Navigate (create a route) or just general Information of this location – as a name, if it has one.
  • Page 30 Click Menu button Locate and select the POI button Scroll down the list of POI categories and highlight your desired category. In this example, we are going to highlight Restaurant. The “+” Sign located to the left indicates that the main category contains at least one sub-category eg: (Restaurants - Italian, Indian, Barbecue or Cajun).
  • Page 31 To preview your destination on the main map click Show button To calculate the route click Navigate as a highlighted blue line from your current GPS position. As you drive, Destinator provides you with turn-by-turn voice and visual directions, letting you know when your next maneuver is due 4.7 N AVIGATE Uses navigate from History...
  • Page 32 As newer destinations, are written, to the top of the stack, the older destinations at the bottom of the stack are erased. After entering the destination, you can initiate navigation from History, or view details of the destination first and then initiate navigation. Click Menu button Locate and select the History button from the Destinate menu.
  • Page 33 A Favorite place is an address or a point on Destinator previously stored by you for future use. You can also save, edit or delete destinations from this folder. 1. Click Menu button (bottom toolbar), to open Favorites button. 2. Select it – (Check the box to highlighted My Favorites). 3.
  • Page 34 departure point is indicated with a Blue flag, and the destination with an Orange flag. The calculated route is always displayed in blue. The screen also displays the details of the destination: Destination – Address Distance - Total length of journey ETR - Estimated Time Remaining You can also use the Arrow button to zoom in or out (Up to Zoom In, and Down to Zoom Out.)
  • Page 35 5.1 Introduction Want to know how to change the default setting of maps, views and route management? Want to change the commonly used options and preferences settings? Well this chapter will let you change the settings according to your personal preferences and tastes.

  • Page 36: Map Settings

    functions and features listed will not work or be available The various options, preferences and setting are all available from these menu and sub-menus. Each setting has a check box which when selected enables that particular function or feature. Defaults Destinator initially has certain defaults set when it is installed.
  • Page 37 Map Orientation 1. Forward is Up - Dynamic Map Notation – the map will rotate as the vehicle turns. Destinator will also update the compass to show the North-South direction as the vehicle turns. 2. North is Up - North map notation – Destinator will keep the map static in a North or UP - always at top orientation.

  • Page 38: Alert Settings

    Routing Mode 1. Navigation mode – Normal driving – Set as default view. 2. Planner Mode – display, planned routes, but does not show your progress, as you travel. Route generation 1. Quickest route – Destinator calculates the route by picking the shortest distance and highest speed limits.

  • Page 39: Setting - General Settings

    Voice Prompts 1. Speed Setting - gives you a voice prompt, when your car exceeds the speed limit on this section of the road. 2. Route recalculation - If deviated from original route, Destinator automatically recalculated new route and update ETA and distances. 3.
  • Page 40 Unit Selections All distances are displayed in imperial or metric units. 1 Imperial (Miles and yards) for USA and the UK. 2 Metric (Kilometers and meters) for Germany and Canada. Application Font select Use Large fonts - makes the display easier to read especially in bad lighting. On Map Information To display - select any, none or all of the following.
  • Page 41 6.1 Introduction Destinator contains many improvements and enhancement, eg: increased viewing area, clearer driving direction, brighter colors for increased viewing, less cluttered screen as well as additional map views like Bird’s-eye (enhanced 3D) view. 6.2 Overview This chapter contains a description on the following topics: 1.How to Zoom 2.Types of View 3.3D Enhanced –...

  • Page 42: How To Zoom

    6.3 How to Zoom The Zoom scroll bar can be used to Zoom In (+ Magnify) or to Zoom Out (- Expand) on the displayed map. You can zoom from 100 m (meters) to 400 Km (Kilometers - metric system) or Imperial system from 60 y (yards) to 200 mi (Miles).

  • Page 43: Types Of View

    6.4 Types of View Destinator comes with several different general viewpoints: From 2D, 3D and Enhanced 3D or Bird’s–eye View. 2D View The 2D view is the straight forward 2 (two) Dimensional normal view. The normal main map view. The map is dynamically updated. It’s easy to read features and clearly defined route enable you, with a single glance, to visually, find where you are and where you are going.
  • Page 44 Origin It shows the basic relief (outline) and details of the surrounding roads and general area Your current position is clearly shown (blue circle) as well as your destination (red arrow). Bird’s-eye View Extensive screen design of the main screen has allowed clearer; more detailed and improved map rending.
  • Page 45 This is the default mode. (View > Day color skin). You can use this setting to change the level of backlighting (from Night color skin) on the screen of the Pocket PC device for daylight driving conditions. Colors are bright and easy to view under most daytime conditions.
  • Page 46 This view indicates the route Turn By Turn. It will show the next turn immediately after completing the previous turn. The two arrows Previous and Next allow scrolling to the next turn or previous turn. It will also provide a Voice and Visual Prompt at intervals of 3 Km, 500m, 200m and 50m of the next turn, or change of direction.
  • Page 47 Part III. More Tools Part III introduces MP3 Player, Photo Viewer, Mpeg 4 Video Play, Calculator,...

  • Page 48: Using Mp3 Player

    7. 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 49: Preparing Mp3 Files For Your Device

    To exit the program, just tap 7.2 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 50: Mp3 Playback Control

    buttons as described later. ※NOTE: When files are added to the play list, the play list is automatically saved when you exit MP3 Player. 3. To exit the program, tap Main menu. 7.4 MP3 Playback Control You can control the MP3 Player via control buttons. See the table below for details: Control Button Name...

  • Page 51: Using Play List

    Volume Repeat all Single playback Random Play List 7.5 Using Play List Once the MP3 player is open, by default the system will automatically load all MP3 files in the play list. If you wish to create your own play list, follow the instructions below: 1.
  • Page 52 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 53 3. Delete Song Remove one song from your play list. Choose a song that you wish to delete and tap Delete Song icon 4. Delete All Remove all songs from your play list. Tap Delete All icon toolbar. All songs in your play list will be removed. 5.

  • Page 54: Using Video Player

    8. 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 AVI(Microsoft format) files ※ Basic playback controls such as play, pause, stop, next and previous ※...

  • Page 55: Preparing Video Files For Your Device

    To exit the program, just tap in the lower right of the screen. 8.2 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.
  • Page 56 3. To exit the program, tap Main menu. 8.4 MP3 Playback Control You can control the MP3 Player via control buttons. See the table below for details: Control Button Name Pause Previous Volume Volume Repeat all at the top of the toolbar. You will return to the Play Play the playback.
  • Page 57 Single playback Random Play List 8.5 Using Play List Once the Video player is open, by default the system will automatically load all Video files in the play list. If you wish to create your own play list, follow the instructions below: 1.
  • Page 58 on the right toolbar. 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.
  • Page 59 6. To return to the control panel, tap on the right toolbar.

  • Page 60: Using Photo Player

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

  • Page 61: Preparing Photo Files For Your Device

    To exit the program, just tap 9.3 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 62: Display Mode

    Zoon in Zoom out Display Right Rotate Left Rotate 9.5 Display Mode You may browse through the pictures in four different modes, file explore mode, thumbnail mode, full screen mode and slide show mode. j File explore mode 1. Tap Photo Player on the Main screen to switch to the program. 2.

  • Page 63: Full Screen Mode

    l 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 2. The selected file will be shown in full screen mode.

  • Page 64: Slide Show Mode

    4. The photo program will automatically detect the photo files of your flash cards. If you are going to browse the next photo, please tap 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 65 5. The slide show mode will afford more than 10 different transition effects and will make your slide show more outstanding. 9.6 Browse Photo It supports 24 -bit true color images. You can browse the picture with zoom in/out, rotation in full screen jFull screen kZoom in/out 1.
  • Page 66 4. Tap icon and you may browse the photo in zoom out mode. lPhoto 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 67 3. Tap icon，it will show the rotated image turn-in right. 4. Tap icon，it will show the rotated image turned-in left.

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