"Team SHTURMANN" - a new tariff plan from MTS for users of GPS-navigators SHTURMANN Link300. Shturmannn navigation software Program installation instructions

A human navigator does not require spending hours studying the instructions. The functional navigator does not force you to be distracted from the road. A caring navigator makes sure that all the necessary data and settings are easily accessible. Interactive navigator shows traffic jams in the city, the location of friends, allows you to share with them valuable traffic information and the location of a cafe with hot French buns. Navigation program "Navigator" now has all these qualities.

In the car

The main menu shows the most important groups of functions: navigational (search for a waypoint, working with a route, setting up) and auxiliary (communication with friends, listening to music, viewing photos, etc.). On the main screen, there is always a reminder of the current route.

The folded corner of the page reveals a map of the area hidden under the main menu

Map

The map is the basis of the navigation program. The map shows the current position, information about the direction of movement, route legend, information about the next turn and the remaining distance for it, time and distance until arrival at the final destination, speed limits on the current section of the route (optional).

Day view of the volumetric map

All maneuver indicators are accompanied by clear voice instructions. When driving with high speed the driver will be notified of the maneuver at a sufficient distance.

The next turn and the one behind it are shown

Approaching the next turn shows a clear progress bar. For fans of the exact sciences, a display of the distance and time to the turn is provided. If the driver is driving along a complex interchange, he has the opportunity to temporarily switch to the information window about the next turn. As soon as the difficult section is completed (or when enough time has passed), the navigator will automatically return to the map mode.

Night view flat map

AT top menu a clock is provided (there are no navigators on the market yet that would show the current time). The clock's hand dial shows both the current time and the remaining time until arrival: in the last hour of the journey, the orange bezel decreases as you approach the end of the route. The calculated time and distance to the destination are shown below the watch face.

Statistics

"Shturman" remembers all the information about the route: distance, time and speed, number of stops.

Progress to the final destination is shown schematically

Scale

It is convenient to examine the desired area in all details, using the zoom using the grid we invented. In this mode, a grid proportional to the screen size appears on top of the map, allowing you to zoom in on the area of ​​interest.

One or more squares can be selected

Convenient feature: display of the entire route

Objects on the map

The map of the navigator displays various objects and places of interest. These are gas stations, restaurants with homemade food and coffee houses with excellent coffee, hotels and shops, car services and other facilities. Many of these points are already plotted on the map supplied with the navigator. Nevertheless, anyone will be able to independently replenish this list, marking interesting places on the map while driving or walking.

People have access to descriptions of objects created by their friends, as well as descriptions from the directory of the company "Shturman"

Location interesting places is shown on the map in the form of multi-colored and clearly distinguishable petals. These icons are large enough to identify the type of object without straining your eyes, but are translucent and do not interfere with the work with the map.

In the object search settings, you can conveniently set the areas of the map in which points of interest will be displayed, for example, only in the immediate vicinity of the current position or near the end point of the route.

Having stumbled upon a new restaurant on Myasnitskaya or a traffic police officer with a radar on Bolshaya Nikitskaya, the navigator user will immediately fix their location and immediately share relevant information with friends.

Shturmann is not a new brand on the Russian market, M2M-Telematics started selling navigators under this brand about three years ago. And the Link 300 model is also not so hot, what a novelty, it has been on sale for several months already - with iGO 8, Autosputnik or Navitel navigation programs. But this spring, a remarkable event happened: Content-Master, which separated from M2M-Telematics, offered a completely new navigation software - Shturmann. And Link 300 became the first carrier of this program. Moreover, for this project, the operator mobile communications MTS has offered a special tariff for GPRS-connection, where one megabyte costs 2.98 rubles. Not so cheap in absolute terms, but the fact is that in this offer, billing occurs without rounding up to a whole megabyte. Packets of information with an update of the traffic situation usually “weigh” several tens of kilobytes, so that when the connection is broken after the next connection, we “give” the operator the cost of unused traffic. In the new MTS tariff "Team Navigator", the user pays per kilobyte, which allows him to save a lot. They say that the daily expenditure of funds is an average of 1 ruble, however, only the road to and from work is taken into account, that is, for a 2-2.5 hour trip.

Another distinctive feature of the Link 300 with Shturmann navigation is the use of maps from Navteq, until now not very popular in navigators (to put it mildly). Navteq relies on standard installed navigators and access to "retail" for the company - a new experience. Let's see how Navteq will be able to squeeze out its eternal competitor - TeleAtlas, as well as other suppliers of Russian maps in this segment.

⇡ Specifications

⇡ Outside and inside

The device comes in a large beautiful box, which contains quite a lot of all the necessary accessories. In addition to the navigator itself, the set includes: a SIM card from MTS, a USB cable and a wire for powering in a car, a mounting bracket, a pen, two instructions and a CD with PDF files of "Manuals" and additional software. And two covers are also given to the "Shturmann" - soft cloth and semi-hard leather, as for good PDAs. Alas, there is no memory card included. There is also no mains charger, but recently few people have invested in it at all, since the need for it is not obvious. There are no headphones either - good ones will not be put in, and bad ones are not really needed.

Shturmann Link 300 is not the cheapest navigator, Yandex Market gives a range of prices from 8,790 to 12,600 rubles. Solid packaging, color instructions with glossy covers, two covers - these are all attempts to emphasize the "top". But, as often happens, with external signs of glamor, the creators saved on more important things. For example, the power cord here is ordinary, not twisted, and this, by the way, is a danger factor! There was no place in the case for the pen, which almost automatically means its rapid loss. The gloss on the covers of the "Manuals" is, of course, important, but why are there no instructions for the software, while there are already two of them for the navigator, short and detailed? I note that there are no instructions for the software even on the disk! Apparently, they simply did not have time to write it - our test copy of the device was from the very first batch. So the instructions will have to be downloaded from the site. Another sign of savings is the painted plastic of the body of the navigator itself. The gloss of this paint will quickly fade, then it will begin to peel off, and in six months the navigator will move into the category of “heavily used” things, as they say in the ads.

But when new, the Link 300 gleams like a polished deck, beams of light reflected from the body of the device radiate throughout the cabin. Varnish was not spared, but this did not add solidity, on the contrary, it created a feeling of tackiness. It's a pity, because the overall design of the navigator is not bad, without this artificial sheen it would look strict and with dignity.

On the front panel of the device are only a power indicator and an almost imperceptible microphone hole. On the top side, as expected, is the power button. The right end contains two slots - for a SIM card and a micro-SD memory card. But the navigator can easily work without a map - all navigation is "wired" in internal memory. Rubber plugs for card slots are fraught with some "resource" danger. The fact is that they are equipped with tips that fit tightly into narrow grooves. If the plug is not fixed flush, so that the tip fits completely into the intended hole, the navigator simply will not “see” the cards. This, apparently, is such insurance against their falling out of the slots. The problem is that the tips on the rubber bands are also rubber, which means they will wear off sooner or later and stop pressing the internal microswitch. To tear off the gum itself is also as easy as shelling pears. So users do not need to open these slots often and for no good reason.

The left end "sheltered" a 3.5 mm audio output and a mini-USB connector, through which power is also supplied. On the rear panel there are only a speaker and a reset button, well protected from accidental clicks. Which, by the way, cannot be said about the power button - its resistance to pressing is minimal and provokes false inclusions.

The "insides" of the Link 300 are typical. It is built on the Centrality Atlas III chipset with a processor operating frequency of 372 MHz. The amount of built-in memory is 2 GB. The screen resolution is standard - 480x272 pixels, the matrix is ​​resistive. The GPS-receiver is the same Atlas, but at the presentation the specialists of the Content-Master unambiguously hinted that work is underway to equip Shturmann navigators with GLONASS receivers. Indeed, who, if not them, who are directly related to the federal operator NIS-GLONASS and M2M-Telematics, should not make the first domestic GLONASS navigator with a display diagonal of 4.3 inches? Now, with the advent of the chip from KB "Navis", it has become quite real.

The navigator is controlled by the Windows CE 5.0 operating system, as the most proven one. However, the "five", most likely, was also taken due to economy - it is much cheaper than the modern "six". For the same reason, they plan to switch to Android in the future. But for some reason, WinCE 5.0 was not completely localized - some built-in applications remained in English. An email client, for example.

Applications navigator is rich, do not take away. In fact, this is a full-fledged PDA, where network functions have been added to traditional multimedia functions. It is an internet browser, Pigeon ICQ manager, MSN messenger and built-in Windows CE mail browser. The last two are not Russified. In addition, Link 300 was equipped with very convenient phone applications - the actual “dialer” and an SMS client. How it all works, we will now check.

⇡ Installation and ergonomics

The Link 300 bracket is non-component, with only one adjustment - you can adjust the rotating hinge, on which the platform for the cradle is fixed. The range of movement of the hinge is significantly limited, and in both planes. And if horizontal movement will be enough for many, then the vertical movement is impermissibly small. The fact is that the bracket connecting the suction cup and the hinge has a fixed bend, and on windshields with a large inclination, the range of movement of the hinge may not be enough. Even here, on the Ford Focus, the navigator got to its highest position when the suction cup was installed almost to the salon mirror. The displacement of the mount on the glass down, at a greater angle of inclination, has already caused problems with the review of the navigator.

Both mounting elements (bracket and cradle) are made of the original transparent plastic and look cool. It is very convenient to fix the suction cup, no rotational movements are required. By the way, the proud inscription Made in Germany flaunts on the edge of the suction cup.

The power connector of the navigator, located on the end facing the driver, is convenient, you can insert the cord after installing the device in the cradle. But here is a non-twisted cord (sorry for the repetition) - this is completely inconvenient.

⇡ Hardware interface

Who doesn’t need instructions - this is the hardware menu, everything is clear and obvious here. Of course, there are classic sections on navigation, media and settings, but “applications”, “messages” and “phone” have been added.

The telephone menu is clear immediately and without explanation - once you touch the icons, you can easily master the simple operations of dialing a number or entering it into a notebook.

The built-in phone also works well, but, of course, only in speakerphone mode. Your interlocutor will begin to experience hearing problems only if the navigator is more than half a meter away from you - the sensitivity of the microphone is still underestimated. But this is correct, otherwise the interlocutor will not hear you over the abundance of noise.

There are no difficulties with the SMS menu either, except that you have to remember the purpose of one button. In search of a mechanism for minimizing the on-screen keyboard, we racked our brains - it turns out that it contains a drop-down menu under the bottom right click with an arrow. There, among the functions of changing the font (duplicated, however, on individual keys) there is a big/small button. So she makes the keyboard such that it does not block the text field. But alas, in the “small” keyboard mode, you can’t do without a pen. Note that the SMS client in the navigator with "traffic jams" is not pampering, but an absolute necessity. With it, you can quickly request a balance, receive a message about the receipt of money in the account. And just dialing an SMS from the screen is easier and faster than from a telephone keypad.

Internet surfing and instant messengers are, of course, a whim; sites are not fully displayed on a small screen. So the maximum is to look at the mail. This case, by the way, is not very fast and not cheap - the modem does not have a 3G channel and communication is carried out only via GPRS. Viewing mail on Yandex for half an hour “warmed up” our account by almost 40 rubles. But as a means of quickly accessing the Internet, the Link 300 will do just fine, especially since it has an amazingly modest power consumption - the navigator can work from the built-in battery for more than two hours!

There is only one problem - turning off the GSM module is hidden deep in the "settings" section and by default the navigator connects to the operator. If you leave something incomplete in messengers or browsers, then the traffic will gradually “drip”, emptying the account. It would be better to put it with a separate button on the main menu page.

The M2M telematics company together with OJSC Mobile Telesystems offered the buyers of SHTURMANN Link300 GPS-navigators http://www.shturmann.com a new exclusive tariff plan"TEAM SHTURMANN". A SIM card with this tariff plan is included in the set of SHTURMANN Link300 GPS navigators. Thus, buyers have the opportunity to use various on-line content services immediately upon purchasing the device and installing it in the car.

The main feature of the tariff plan "TEAM SHTURMANN" is the absence subscription fee, a single super favorable price for GPRS-Internet and the availability of a starting balance of 50 rubles on the subscriber's account. Voice communication services are not provided within the tariff plan.

The SHTURMANN Link300 GPS navigator has an ergonomic design, a GSM communication channel, multimedia functions and the ability to connect to a monitoring system. Vehicle. SHTURMANN Link300 users have access to various navigation software and on-line content services, such as: Traffic jams, ICQ, Email, gprs-Internet access.

About company
"M2M telematics" http://www.m2m-t.ru/about/ - the largest Russian telematics operator and developer of software, user equipment in the field of monitoring mobile and stationary objects based on GLONASS and GPS satellite navigation systems, cellular communication GSM (GPRS/SMS), Inmarsat satellite communications.

Key features of the Shturmann Link 500 navigator:

Bright large 5-inch screen

High resolution 800x480

Built-in GPRS module

Own navigation program Shturmann

SIM card MTS with tariff " Shturmann team"included

So the main advantage car navigator Shturmann Link 500 fm is of course a built-in GSM/GPRS module and comes with SIM card. Thanks to this, the navigator is able to connect to the Internet without the use of additional devices, which greatly simplifies the task.

The most valuable thing that a car navigator can get from the network is real-time information about traffic jams, the well-known Yandex Traffic jams. Using this information, the Shturmann Link 500 fm automatically plots a route using the least congested roads. The service works both in Moscow and other Russian cities. Also, the online service will allow you to see friends using Shturmann navigation on the map, and will offer the shortest route for a meeting.

In addition, the built-in GSM / GPRS module in the navigator will allow you to use the car navigator as mobile phone. You can receive calls and dial numbers directly from the navigator screen. The microphone and speaker located in the body of the navigator will allow you to have a conversation without taking your hands off the steering wheel.

The communication capabilities of Shturmann Link 500 fm are complemented by a program for receiving and sending SMS messages, a pre-installed web browser, ICQ client, mail client and MSN Messager.

In our review, we will pay special attention to the Shturmann Link 500 fm screen. This is a modern bright display with a diagonal of 5 inches and high resolution.

The screen resolution is 800x480 pixels, which is 3 times more than the previous model of the Shturmann Link series. This gives an improvement in image clarity by the same 3 times! You no longer have to peer into small lettering, fonts look smooth and crisp. The pixels that make up the digital image become invisible to the eye.

The multimedia capabilities of the Shturmann Link 500 fm are familiar audio and video players, a photo viewer and an FM transmitter. The FM transmitter allows you to transmit sound from the car navigator to the car's audio system without using wires, just tune the receiver to the desired wave and your favorite music from the navigator's memory card will sound in full force through the car's acoustics.

Pre-installed on the Shturmann Link 500 fm, Shturmann navigation software combines the latest maps from the world leader in cartography, NAVTEQ, with the simplest and most user-friendly interface. In addition, official maps of all of Europe will be available to Shturmann users in the near future!

Navigator Shturman Link 500 combines all the necessary and most requested functions of a car device. Against the background of many devices for navigation, it looks more than worthy, because at the same time it is quite inexpensive. Services installed by default, such as Yandex. Traffic jams allow the driver to enjoy the driving process and receive timely information about the condition of the roadway.

Main characteristic

Shturmann Link 500 is equipped with a 5 inch screen with a fairly wide resolution of 800*480. There is an integrated GPRS module that provides Internet connection.

The main advantages of this device include the following:

• high color rendering;
• widescreen extension;
• integrated module providing connection;
• constant updating of data on the state of the road with the help of downloaded to the device
• programs;
• specially designed and unique program for navigation Navigator;
• SIM card mobile operator MTS with the "Command Navigator" tariff.

The main advantage of the device is still the ability to use the "Navigator team" function. The convenience lies in the fact that by teaming up with friends and relatives, the car owner will always see their location on the city map.

Important! Thanks to the integrated module, the navigator can be connected to world wide web without communication with other mobile gadgets, that is, it works completely autonomously.

Navigator Shturman 500 has modest, by today's standards, characteristics, but this does not prevent it from satisfying the needs of average users. The main characteristics are given in the table.

Users of Shturman navigators have the opportunity to receive information about traffic jams on city roads in real time. In addition, after installing the programs, the user gets the opportunity to see information about the poor condition of the roadway:

• closing a certain lane;
• repair work.

This moment greatly simplifies the life of a motorist, because in conditions of congestion in large cities, such information is very valuable.

Important! Functions work not only in large cities, but also in small provinces throughout Russia.

By purchasing the device, the user gains the opportunity to use its additional functions:

• photo viewing;
• watching videos;
• FM radio;
• MP3 player.

The undoubted advantage of the device is its dimensions - 136 * 85 * 14 mm. The small size allows you to place the device on the front glass of the car, without cluttering up visibility.

Instrument package

The price of the device is less than 5,000 rubles, but for this price the user purchases a fully equipped device. When you open the box, you can be truly surprised, because many manufacturers save on this, but Shturman is rather an exception to the rule.

The user acquires the following constituent elements:

• the device itself - navigator navigator Link 500 500;
• car mount;
• charger for use in the car;
• case;
• cable for connecting the device to a computer;
• instruction manual for the device;
• warranty card from the store and the manufacturer;
• MTS SIM card to activate the My Navigator Team service.

The device itself is made of durable plastic. There are no special decorative elements. There is a film on the screen of the device. All connectors for connection are located on the side right side.

Important! For the predecessors of the device, the sockets were located on the left side, but the manufacturer identified an error. When connected to the right, the wire hangs in an obsessive arc and prevents the driver from following the road.

On the bottom side of the device is a slot for a SIM card. Installing a mobile operator card completely solves the user's problem in connecting to the Internet, through which up-to-date information about the state of the communication path is displayed.

Important! The gift rate from MTS "Team Navigator" is no less valuable than the navigator itself. The user has a chance to pay only 99 kopecks for 1 MB of information received.

The design of the mount itself, which ensures the stability of the device in the car, looks quite powerful. It is made of durable plastic, sometimes there are metal elements. The mount is equipped with a special ball joint, thanks to which the device can be freely rotated in three available planes. Just one touch on the screen allows the user to set the optimal viewing angle.

Fact! The motorist will have to get used to getting into the latches to install the device on the fixing platform.

After turning on the device, the user gets acquainted with the menu. It looks quite simple, because the motorist on an intuitive level can guess what exactly is located behind the icon. The sensor is quite sensitive, drivers do not complain about this element.