Road Angel Navigator
• Premium Navigation - The very latest maps with the most complete Australian road network coverage from Sensis®, Whereis® and UBD®.
• Over 540,000 Points of Interest - Across over 50 selectable categories.
• Comprehensive Road Safety Warnings - Pre-loaded with Road Sense, Australia’s only professionally surveyed, dynamic map of road safety hazard locations.
• Integrated Road Safety Display - Shows accurate GPS speedometer, road safety hazards and speed limit at hazard.
• Built-in Quick Help Tutorial - Turns novices into experts.
• Turn-by-turn instructions - with Voice Assist™ Includes Australian male and female voice guidance.
• 2D or 3D Map - With variable perspectives that provide a realistic view of the road ahead.
• Pick stops from the map - Just ‘tap and hold’ a road to add a destination address.
• Detour and Avoid Roads - Gets you around unexpected traffic or street congestion.
• In-car proDock - and Windscreen Bracket The professional docking station eliminates cable clutter, has an integrated loud speaker,
volume control and an automatic charger. The proDock eliminates the need for awkward remote controls – just click Navigator in
and out to make destination settings.
• Pocket-size Light, 200g, with long-life - rechargeable lithium-ion batteries.
The Good Gear Guide has reviewed the Road Angel and write:
“While Sentinel have tried to market the Navigator as a ‘portable’ device, at 87 x 120 x 22mm and weighing 200 grams, we feel it is just a little too large to carry around comfortably. That said, it is nowhere near as big as solely in-car units and Sentinel have included a docking station allowing the unit to be easily detached and taken elsewhere. Furthering its portability, the unit also offers voice assisted navigation in different modes - one for driving and one for walking.
Our biggest gripe with the Navigator was the 3.5″ LCD touch screen. We found it to be highly reflective, difficult to read in sunlight and with a poor viewing angle. These problems were only exacerbated when we used the Navigator while walking around in day light conditions.
But we had no problems with the map rendering of the Navigator and found the audio prompts to be both precise and easily understandable. The next turn instructions are displayed at the top of screen with the available menu options on the left. The map colour scheme was also clear (day and night modes are available), with the route displayed in green and your current position easily visible on the map. The emphasis on safety was again evident, as the vehicle’s current speed is prominently displayed on every screen.
When the Navigator is first turned on, it takes well over a minute to fully load up and display the main menu options. Pressing the Destination button brings up a window of recently accessed locations, or you can enter a new destination, such as Address, Favorite Location, POI or preset Home/Office locations. Entering in an address involves typing on a QWERTY keyboard and at times, we found the keys on the onscreen keyboard a little too small for our fingers.
Searching requires you to select a state, suburb and then a street and street number. While the street name is not filtered by suburb, the Navigator helpfully displays the nearest matching addresses in nearby locations as well as cross streets in a confirmation screen. After the destination is correctly entered, the unit then prompts you to save the location as a favorite, a feature which we found quite handy.
The Points Of Interest (POI) database was another strength of the Navigator, with around 540,000 locations stored. As with other GPS units, users have the option of customizing proximity alerts based on the type of POIs; for example, you can have the unit alert you to the nearest Restaurant, or more specifically, the nearest Winery, Cafe or Roadside Diner.
While Sentinel have certainly taken some time and trouble with the Road Angel Navigator, we were also impressed by the professional CD accompaniment. The manual on the CD is comprehensive, easy to understand and the demonstration video featuring Peter Brock is a nice touch. It’s small, but significant little extras like these which make purchasing decisions that much easier.”
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