Alpine Electronics Releases Newly Reduced Cost For PND-K3 Portable Navigation Plus Bluetooth System
Alpine today announced that its PND-K3 portable navigation plus Bluetooth® system is now available for $349.95 at participating retailers in the U.S.
The PND-K3 is the company’s third-generation portable navigation device. Totally redesigned with a new, slim form factor and updated user interface, the all-in-one PND-K3 combines superior vehicle positioning with Bluetooth hands-free technology.
Alpine PND-K3
The PND-K3 has OnPoint™ Advanced GPS Positioning for optimal vehicle tracking. OnPoint simultaneously uses three technologies – satellite-linked global positioning data, gyro technology (to measure the vehicle’s direction) and accelerometer technology (to measure the vehicle’s speed) – resulting in highly accurate, continuous vehicle positioning in almost any location, even in tunnels and around tall buildings.
OnPoint simultaneously uses three technologies – satellite-linked global positioning data, gyro technology (to measure the vehicle’s direction) and accelerometer technology (to measure the vehicle’s speed) – resulting in highly accurate, continuous vehicle positioning in almost any location, even in tunnels and around tall buildings.
Additional features include:
- Total touch screen control via a sunlight-readable 4.3-inch color display
- Simple and intuitive graphical user interface (GUI) with big, bright icons, large buttons and easy-to-understand screen graphics
- Natural-sounding voice text-to-speech announcements that deliver turn-by-turn driving instructions, street and highway exit names
- New assistive mapping visuals that offer essential driving information, such as Highway Junction View (which distinctly indicates the correct lane to use at a junction split) and One-Way Street Icons for clear notification of one-way streets
- 6 million points of interest (POIs)
- Preloaded NAVTEQ® maps of the United States and Canada, including Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands
- Built-in Bluetooth for convenient hands-free phone calls when connected to compatible Bluetooth-enabled mobile devices
- Built-in SD card slot for playback of WMA/MP3 music files
- Customizable map and menu color schemes with eight different color options
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