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Alpine had more on its plate lately than just their RLS show car. Thankfully. No, they too have introduced their all-singing, all-dancing wonderunit for your car. But, unlike their competitors, the Alpine unit's portable GPS module goes inside instead of on top of the head unit.

Alpine's IVA-W205 has every electronic gadget you need in your dash, and at the push of a button, opens to reveal a slot for your Alpine Blackbird PBD-P200 GPS unit. Once the Blackbird is inserted into the head unit, the W205 not only gains GPS capability, but also the Blackbird's Bluetooth connectivity. Touching a button on the W205's screen closes the front.

The hideaway GPS garnered Alpine a CES Best of Innovators award this year. Expect to see the W205 on sale in May for $899, and the Blackbird seperately soon after for an as yet undetermined price.

CES 2007: Alpine's all-in-one swallows GPS whole originally appeared on Autoblog on Tue, 09 Jan 2007 09:03:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Already well-established as one of the big players in the U.S. market for embedded auto nav systems, Alpine is bowing to pressure from portable devices from the likes of TomTom and Garmin, announcing Thursday the launch of  its own portable navigation device.

Dubbed the "Blackbird," the versatile unit comes pre-loaded with map data for the U.S. and Canada, and will provide full turn-by-turn voice directions to an address, intersection or pre-loaded point of interest (including hotels, restaurants, airports, and gas stations). The Blackbird is also a Radio Data System traffic data receiver (requires a service subscription) and an MP3 player accepting music files on SD cards.

Alpine's road trip buddy retails for about $750, with traffic data services starting this summer, for a $60 annual fee.

Alpine rolls out its first portable navigation device originally appeared on Autoblog on Thu, 11 May 2006 20:04:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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We've all been there - you've just zipped past the last exit for a couple of miles on your morning commute, you sail over a rise and find... brake lights, as far as the eye can see. If only you'd known the jam was there, you could have taken that exit. If only... Well, here's a gadget that can help!

Alpine Electronics launched this week a new XM Satellite Radio XM Navtraffic data receiver module, the HCE-100XM. Connected to the equally evocatively-named NVE-N872A Alpine nav system (pictured), the new unit provides continuously updated traffic information on top of the nav system's turn-by-turn directions.

Traffic coverage is currently available in 31 major U.S. metro areas (by subscription). Traffic alerts include:
  • color-coded traffic congestion levels along major highways
  • incident icons along the route, for congestion-causing traffic accidents or road construction
  • re-routing options for faster, more efficient routes.

Go to alpine-usa.com for more info.

[via CNet]

Alpine Electronics launches XM Radio Navtraffic receiver originally appeared on Autoblog on Thu, 11 May 2006 15:32:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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