Alpine's PND-K3msn GPS adds a little MSN Direct to your road trips
By Joseph L. Flatley 
posted Mar 18th 2009 11:23AM
posted Mar 18th 2009 11:23AM
If you love MSN Direct, and if you have a thing for the in-car GPS, you are going to go wild for this next item! Alpine has just announced its newest, the PND-K3msn. This is the MSN-ified version of the PND-K3, sporting text-to-speech functionality, an SD slot, MP3 support, Bluetooth, 3D map view, highway junction view, and a slew of services from MSN Direct (including real-time traffic, weather, gas prices, and movie times). A three month subscription comes with the $299.95 purchase price, after which the service will run you $49.95 / year or $129.95 for a lifetime membership.
[Via CNet]
[Via CNet]
It's the realtime traffic that I think is most appealing. Really it is the only thing I really wish I had on my Garmin.
(Although it wouild also be nice if they offered a free progressive map update between major paid upgrades with how much they change around some of the roads around where I live.)
Subscription fee?
On a gps? Wilst all others are subscription free?
What are they thinking? Whos gona buy this when garmen is just as cheap and no fee?
...........dumbasses
I was under the impression that most of these GPS with realtime traffic had some kind of subscription fee involved, as the traffic service is a seperate company.
I dunno, as the lst time I looked into it was a year ago, so it might have changed.
Haha, you seriously need to research GPS's before you comment again.
That was @Wes btw.
Oh, that's OK then.
Hey, that's not an iPhone...
Um... It's not Laan Tijera Blvd. It's La Tijera Blvd. I wonder how bad the rest of the software is.
navigon GPS's come with free lifetime traffic, all of there models do.