New sat nav ??

i bought a 500 with this option...

can anyone give me some more info as i can't really find much on google

anyone? when will it be available?

Haven't seen much about this option at all.
I did ask my dealer when ordering my 500 but he knew little about it, and advised on getting an aftermarket one as they can be moved to other car/cars.
I have a built in system in my current Civic and to be honest it is no better than your average TomTom,Garmin,Navman etc apart from having a bigger screen and no trailing cables.
It also now costs about £200 for update discs for it so Honda know where they can shove that.
Will be interested to know however how much it will be to update the maps etc on it.

If I'm not mistaken, the map updates are free.
You just have to put some maps on a USB stick into the Blue&Me system.
So how many maps you can carry along depends on the size of your USB stick, not of the internal memory, which is a really good thing. (also makes it easily updateable)

I just called my dealer and he said he ordered it for me. It costs a little over €200.
He placed one of the first European orders for the system.


Thing with the aftermarket devices is ... I hate the trailing cables and things not being 100% compatible with eachother.
I mean, for instance, you got your music playing, an aftermarket TomTom will just give voice directions through your music, whereas the Blue&Me Map, would mute the music, give directions, and unmute the music. (unless you disable that option of course)
It's little things like this that makes me want to have a built-in SatNav, rather than a third party device.

My dealer (UK) said that it costs about £450 which is quite a bit more than 200 euros. Hope you are right about the free updates, as I said earlier its the cost of updating my honda one which I find ridiculous. When your car arrives with the built in Nav let us know how you get on with it.

Hey im privvy to some of the latest gadgets for fiats (perk of working at a dealer!)

And i have just laid my sticky mits on the new sat nav that intergrates with blue and me, hence the very original name '' blue and me MAP'' and so far the little that i have played with it, it seems pretty good. not the best satnav on the market but it does intergrate into blue and me which is cool, and as such the turn by turn directions come out of the car's audio system rather than the unit, and certain voice features are available to.

i'll post some pics later if you guy's wanna see.

here's a link to some info about it http://www.alfamitoblog.it/content/v.../lang,english/

Cool. Can you still listen to music when using it and then it says the directions over the music?

Jon.

Yes you certainly can, ive tested it on radio, cd and whilst playing my flash drive, and on all instance it mutes music and relay's dircections to you.

Here's a couple of pics.

Ive now since tested some of the voice features and they work fine. (not that you can do a great deal via voice but still)

And i have a rough price of £200 all in. and this unit is also able to go into any other vehicle. should the situation require.

Are they at dealers yet?? maybe something to spend my vouchers on

Yeah my dealer got issued with them on friday. i'll post up part number's for them on monday if anybody is interested.

And i can email peeps the blue and me update software also.

I'm surprised to see that it is a stand alone system after seeing a post in another thread that showed a picture of a dedicated fitting in the top of the dash to slot it in.

I know nothing about sat nav's! Is it worth the money do you think??

I assume you mean is that unit worth the money or SatNav in the first place?

If you mean satnav in the first place it sure as hell beats trying to get someone to read a paper map (how come all my mates can't but I can?) or worse, you try and read it whilst driving

Looks good and £200 isn't to bad. Would it work in other Fiats with Blue and me?

How easy are the map's updated, and POI's added?

Jon.

Ok let me clear up a few bit's here

First. The sat nav unit does have another fitting kit which allows it to be wireless, but this is an option that has to be orderded when ordering the car. and as of yet its not an option, so for all of us that have blue and me on older models we get this model.

Second. It intergrates with any fiat or alfa that has blue and me and as for upgrading maps, im still looking into that one, but as far as i can tell they will downloadable from fiat.com