Shenzen Leadertone intros GPS3000 navigation system

Ah, just what we needed -- yet another Chinese navigation system that touts mutiple layers of functionality, but probably doesn't really excel in any of them. Shenzen Leadertone has its Windows CE-powered GPS3000 on deck and ready for showing at next week's CES, and aside from the somewhat gaudy window attachment, it manages to sport a 3.5-inch 4:3 touchscreen, SD / MMC flash card slots, rechargeable four-hour battery, turn-by-turn voice guidance, and a built-in, brain-rattling one-watt speaker to crank out the MP3, WMA, and WAV files. Additionally, it can playback ASF and AVI video formats, recognize text files / pictures, and touts automatic redirecting, 3D / "overlook" views, and an integrated 159dBm GPS antenna. Of course, it the included one isn't up to your requirements, you can attach an external antenna of your own thanks to the MCX port. No information regarding pricing or availability has been released just yet, but all that should become perfectly clear when it hits the Vegas floors in just a few days.

[Via Navigadget]

[dp @ Jan 2nd 2007 2:35PM]

Hmm.. that Photo icon looks very familiar...

[Martin Beauchamp @ Jan 2nd 2007 2:38PM]

I like how they stole the iPhoto icon. Way to go China!

[Ryan @ Jan 2nd 2007 2:40PM]

Anyone notice the Photos icon is iPhoto? The E-Book is a lot like Address Book.

[Dan Armstrong @ Jan 2nd 2007 2:46PM]

Wow iPhoto on my GPS! *sarcasm*

[Brian @ Jan 2nd 2007 2:49PM]

It's from China? Does that mean I can nab it for fifty bucks? You know the people assembling it are making pennies an hour (if not day)...

Bring on the $50 GPS units! Yeah!

[Armie @ Jan 2nd 2007 2:54PM]

Yah, I noticed the iPhoto icon as well as a modified Apple Address Book icon. Wonder if Apple legal will even bother.

[paul34 @ Jan 2nd 2007 3:02PM]

I wouldn't be surprised if even the screenshot was jacked from some other GPS unit

[Alex @ Jan 2nd 2007 3:13PM]

I like how they put a bunch of Apple icons on it, and then in the bottom it says "Windows CE".

[Rick Lyon @ Jan 2nd 2007 3:16PM]

A lot beat me to it, but the icons are strangely familiar to me :) Omniweb, iTunes, iMovie, Address Book, iPhoto and settings one looks like an XP icon.

[Christopher Price @ Jan 2nd 2007 3:38PM]

Stealing Apple icons is nothing new, Apple only acts against reputable companies (like Samsung) that pull that. My Proview RX-326 has a Safari icon in settings. I told Apple Legal personally about it, they said they would "act" on it... but I never heard anything substantive about it.

[will @ Jan 2nd 2007 4:00PM]

"Ah, just what we needed -- yet another Chinese navigation system that touts mutiple layers of functionality, but probably doesn't really excel in any of them"

Was this backhanded compliment really necessary?

[Ein @ Jan 2nd 2007 4:05PM]

With all those Mac icons, I think this might be running the Apple's new mobile OS. :-)

[andy @ Jan 2nd 2007 4:10PM]

"...another Chinese navigation system that touts mutiple layers of functionality, but probably doesn't really excel in any of them."

What is this statement based on?

[Tommers @ Jan 2nd 2007 4:47PM]

Is the fact that they removed iPhoto's white border instead of leaving it completely intact better or worse?

[anders @ Jan 2nd 2007 5:07PM]

159dBm... 7.9E12 Watt. Wow. That's a lot...

[... @ Jan 2nd 2007 5:52PM]

Wow, talk about apple fanboys... We have an article with a grammatical error (the "sd/mmc slots" is a single slot) but everyone is bitching about how the icons were stolen from apple...

In any case, a 3.5" display doesn't seem like enough for easy navigating... That is only a little over 2" on a side, not nearly enough for any decent amount of info to be viewed from a few feet away while you are driving... Or enough space for entering information...

[... @ Jan 2nd 2007 5:57PM]

Well technically, it should read -159Dbm, but when someone says that it is an antenna (or are somehow referring to the rx sensitivity) the - can be assumed and it is often left off. So, yes, 10E-15W is not very much power at all...

[E Malave Jr @ Jan 2nd 2007 7:02PM]

Apple people make me sick sometimes-technically it's a freakin camera with a picture of a freakin' palm tree behind it.

Some of you probably think Steve Jobs made God.

[E @ Jan 2nd 2007 7:49PM]

Don't you know, if it's on an Apple, regardless of how simple it is, it CANNOT be touched. Using such images amount to spitting in the face of God.

So dumb...that people get so worked up about a dumb icon.

[DF @ Jan 2nd 2007 11:09PM]

For god's sake, it is ShenZHEN Leadertone.

[tfgbd @ Jan 3rd 2007 3:24AM]

Bah... Its annoying that all these newer Windows CE powered "AIO" GPS navigation devices are dropping the d-pads... It will make them useless for playing games that need lots of buttons once they are hacked/"opened up". I guess its fine for Pocket PC games that rely heavily on the touchscreen, though. ScummVM games would be OK, I suppose.

[�orsteinn Baldur Fri�riksson @ Jan 3rd 2007 10:33AM]

hahahaha

This is the same company that makes these really original MP3 players:
http://www.leadertone.com.cn/english/03_product/index2.asp?pro_id_search=121&pro_type_search=

And you are worried about the Iphoto logo?? :)