Raytel presents the EGO Drive

Raytel have just announced that they will showing the new EGO drive at the CES 2008. The Ego Drive is a gps navigation system that comes fully equipped with a remote control, 3D mas and also offers bluetooth. It also features Text-to-speech technology that reads text messages to you, a picture viewer, mp3/video player.
The EGO drive features:
- High-definition, full color 4.3 inch touchscreen
- Wireless remote control
- Built-in high capacity, rechargeable Li-Ion battery
- Docking cradle for portability and port replication
- SD Card (up to 2GB) and built-in memory
- 2-Year Limited Warranty
- Voice recognition (speech-to-text, no training required)
- Integrates and mutes car’s stereo system
- Supports all Bluetooth mobile phone voice commands
- DSP technology for noise and echo suppression
- Reads out text messages (SMS text-to-speech)
- Shows text and picture messages (SMS and MMS)
- Accommodates up to 10 different user profiles
- Remote control
- Dynamic routing with 3D map view and auto re-route
- Shows landmarks and POI’s
- Voice prompts (e.g. “Turn left in 500 ft.”)
- TMC (FM traffic) guides users around heavy traffic
- Pre-installed maps of USA and Canada
The system will be available some time next year.