After much wait Medion is back with a new GPS unit named GoPal P5430. Sure it took a while for Medion to launch GoPal P5430 but i thinks it was worth waiting for. GoPal P5430 has all the standard features as well as some new features like Fingerprint Sensor and Voice control, Pre-loaded safety camera locations, Text-to-Speech for precise traffic guidance and more. GoPal P5430 has a touchscreen 5-inch” display. GoPal P5430 is now available for order and relative to other GPS it does come a little cheaper with a price tag of $269.
FEATURES:
Avoid traffic jams with traffic master
Bluetooth®*
Voice control**
Text-to-Speech***
Extended lane info
Pre-loaded safety camera locations****
Speed advisor
Programmable quick menu
Route blocking
2D or 3D viewing mode
Turn by turn voice and visual instructions
Day & night mode
Fast, short and economic route
Compass function
POI included - Points of interest such as petrol stations and parking places
Route simulation
Split screen
Estimated time of arrival , Kilometres/Miles to drive, Distance to next manoeuvre
17 different languages
MP3 Player
Travel Guide
Picture Viewer
Sudoku
Alarm Clock
INCLUDED ACCESSORIES:
Carholder with suction cup
12V car charger
External TMC antenna
Stylus
2 GB SD memory card
USB sync cable
MEDION® GoPal® Navigator AE 4.6A
vorinstalliert und auf DVD
DVD with map material, software and
additional applications
dell mini 9 has plenty of space insice for modder to modify it to their own needs. you can squeez in tiny stuff for your convinience. Tom Beauchamp has installed a gps reciever to make it look like builtin and surprisingly he has done a good job. instructions and pictures prvoded by him at here
So, I wanted to add a GPS receiver to my Mini 9, but I didn’t want to have to use a dongle or other external device. I figured that a netbook really ought to just have it built in, so that’s what I decided to do. All of these pictures are links to larger versions.
I started by tearing the Mini down and seeing if it was even possible. Dell’s service manuals for the Mini 9 are pretty decent and are all you need to take the system apart. You can view them here. Luckily, there’s a bit of space around where the Bluetooth adapter is located. It wasn’t much, but it looked like enough, so I ordered the smallest USB GPS receiver I could find. It’s a nice unit with a SkyTraQ chipset and support for AGPS. Once I used the included utility to download an AGPS update into the unit, it gets a location fix in about five seconds after a reset.
Once I made sure the GPS receiver worked, I immediately took it apart to see just how small it could get. I was pleasantly surprised to see just how small it really is. Here’s a picture of the GPS unit, the Bluetooth adapter, and a quarter for scale comparison.
I then started moving the Bluetooth adapter and removing the old mounting provisions for it, since they were now in the way. There was enough room, but just barely. If the GPS was another 2mm thick, it would not have fit. The GPS completely fills the space between the Bluetooth adapter and trackpad. There is a lot more space on the bottom of the laptop in the unused WWAN card area, but the GPS needs to be on top so that it has a view of the sky. A unit with a separate antenna may provide other mounting options, but I decided it would unnecessarily complicate things. Here is a shot from test fitting.
Next, I needed a 5v source to provide power for the GPS. Luckily the trackpad runs on 5v, and it’s right there, how convenient! The power is on the outer two pins of the ribbon cable connecting the trackpad to the motherboard. In the picture below, ground is to the left and +5v is to the right.
Here is the GPS unit with the USB plug removed and wires soldered on instead to save space. The orange wires are connecting power and the blue data. You can also see that the sheilding foil has been removed from underneath the Bluetooth’s new location.
A connection to the USB of the Mini was needed, and luckily the WWAN mini PCI-e connector’s USB lines are active. I was able to run the data lines through the hole in the motherboard for the WWAN card mount. I connected the USB data lines to pins 36 and 38 of the unused mini PCI-e connector.
So then I double and triple checked the wiring, put some tape in for insulation and put everything back together. I was quite pleased when it started right up, and now my Mini knows where it is! The satellite reception through the case of the Mini is excellent.
Fitment is perfect, you cannot tell it was modified without opening it up. There are no bulges or other outward indications that anything has been changed.
