August 07, 2007

New Mio models with 3-D navigation

Teleatlas_3d Reports are surfacing that Mio will be introducing some new units at Berlin's IFA electronics show the end of this month. The big news is the Mio C620 which reportedly will have 3-D navigation capabilities.
A new Mio C230 has been mentioned as well.

More details on the C620 at GPS Business News and Navigadget. The latter also covers the C230, while this French site has some additional screen shot of 3-D navigation.

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Aug 7, 2007 11:00:56 AM | Hardware, Mio

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