Pocket loox n100 software download

Clearly, the N doesn't offer branded POI for all businesses, but we're impressed and appreciative of this feature--nice touch. We found the database to be fairly up to date, though not perfect. The Pocket Loox N's media player is pretty basic, but gets the essential job done. You can create playlists on the fly, and there's also a shuffle and a repeat mode.

There's no equalizer, but you can adjust treble and bass through the Audio option under the Settings menu. You can play music while navigating, but it was our experience that the N didn't interrupt the song when giving a voice prompt. Instead, both were played at the same time, which didn't do any good. The video player offers a full-screen mode and repeat function and works with WMV files. However, there is an included conversion app to convert other video formats. Finally, Fujitsu Siemens throws in a few extra utilities.

You get a world clock, a calculator, and two games, one of which, much to our delight, was Pacman , although it's called Smart Pixie on this device. We found the unit to be real sluggish at times. I consider myself a pretty patient person, but there are times when I was ready to walk away from this device.

For example, it took over a minute for the Navigator app to launch. This also brings up the issue we mentioned in the Design section. There were times when we'd hit an icon, such as the music player, and nothing would happen for a few seconds, so we were left wondering if our tap didn't register or if we had to tap it twice. This happened a lot when we first started using the N, but we eventually realized it's just slow.

Either way, it's incredibly frustrating. From a cold start, it took the unit about two minutes to acquire a satellite fix under clear skies, but subsequent starts were erratic; it took anywhere from seconds to five minutes to get a signal. Once set, the N did a good job of pinpointing our location, but as we started moving, we noticed that it was about half a block off as we drove around the city.

We also entered a specific trip, and the unit calculated a route in a reasonable amount of time. The directions were accurate, but route recalculations were a little too slow for our tastes.

Plus, when we missed too many turns, it really seemed to confuse the poor little guy and the map screen went on the fritz trying to catch up. Not exactly what you want when you're lost or trying to get to your destination. The primary risks from installing the wrong PDA drivers include system instability, hardware incompatibilities, and system crashes. These tiny software programs called "device drivers" provide the means for your Pocket LOOX N device to communicate clearly with your operating system.

Device drivers can break down inexplicably, for various reasons. You shouldn't be concerned because you can update your PDA drivers as a prevention measure. Finding the correct PDA driver directly on the manufacturer's website for your hardware might seem futile. Even seasoned, tech-savvy people with the good habit of updating Pocket LOOX N device drivers, can still find the entire installation and upgrading process time-consuming and annoying.

This is problematic because installing the wrong or incompatible driver will potentially produce worse results. You then have the option of adding it to the route, navigating directly to it, saving it as a favourite or searching nearby. Route calculation is relatively speedy and once done you can review the list of turns and remove certain roads if you want to avoid any known problems.

You can also simulate the route in almost real-time with no way to speed it up. Once navigating, the instructions are very clear and well timed however the internal speaker is no where near adequate; I recommend either an FM Transmitter or some lead or other to connect it to your car stereo.

The built in MP3 player has a separate volume to the navigation voice so you can have that loud enough to hear and still adjust the voice level accordingly. At seemingly random times you get told to watch your speed, even with no speed cameras around. I can only presume that the mapping has data for the road speeds on certain roads and warns you if you exceed it. Approaching turns you get a diagram of the junction in the bottom left corner as well as a count-down display for that turn.

Straying off route causes a nice, fast recalculation. Handy for getting past the traffic jams that the TMC fails to pick up the signals for! The screen, although nice and clear, is also nice and reflective. Another comment on the touch screen is that while sensitivity, in general, is very good I found that the times when you need to select around something around the edge I often had to try twice; the second attempt involving using quite a bit more pressure.

On to the extras, with the firmware upgraded to 1. The photo viewer and video player were added in the firmware upgrade and so there is no mention of these in the manual.

You can search by album, artist, track and can even save up to five favourite playlists. There are separate controls for earphone level, bass and treble too. The photo viewer is fairly basic but will open most picture files jpg, gif, bmp, png etc and has a few different settings for running a slide show.