Sanyo intros a pair of new "Easy Street" GPS units
By Donald Melanson 
posted Jul 18th 2007 11:01AM
posted Jul 18th 2007 11:01AM
We first caught sight of these way back at CES, but it looks like Sanyo is just now rolling out its NVM-4070 and NVM-4050 "Easy Street" GPS units. They don't appear to have gone under any significant changes in the ensuing months, however, boasting the same 4-inch touchscreen, built-in Bluetooth, MP3/WMA/WAV support, and pre-loaded maps of the US, Canada, and Puerto Rico. Taking things up the the NVM-4070 will give you a few added benefits, including Traffic Message Channel support for real-time traffic data, added support for JPEG photos and MPEG-4 videos, and a built-in FM transmitter to pump tunes through your car stereo. Both should be available immediately, with the NVM-4070 setting you back $500 and the NVM-4050 running $400.
How about text-to-speech directions? I mean: "turn left on Main St.", instead of "Turn left in 500m". You haven't specified this ability. Does it have anything like this?
Navteq or Teleatlas? How many POIs included? Underlying Nav software is what? iGO? iGuidance? ???