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Note that when the user selects turn by turn navigation by calculating a route this navigation pane
will replace any other selected pane as soon as the system needs to display a message. When the
message time is over it will revert to the previous pane you have chosen. You can rotate through
all of the available panes by using the cursor keypad, either up/down or left/right will work.
There is a user option to control the size of the navigation pane.
The smaller of the two sizes is shown in the picture. If you want to
see the turn data at a glance you may prefer the larger display that
covers up most of the map.
Voice prompts accompany the visual data and allow you to keep
your eyes on the road. The voice prompt repetition frequency
near a turn is adjustable. There is also a Turn Assist provided by
the Alarm lamp on the front of the unit. When the turn message
appears the lamp will start flashing. As you near the turn the flash
rate will increase to indicate that the turn is closer.
Navigation Pane
Some of the power of this banner display may not be obvious at
first. For example, suppose you are stopped and wanted to study a difficult turn that is still quite
a bit ahead of you. You can scroll to the route pane which shows the full turn instructions. You
can use the other pair of cursor pad presses (left/right if you used up/down to bring up the route
pane) to walk you through the various turns in the route providing the full turn instructions and
the map for that particular turn. In this example you would use up/down to switch out of this
pane. Note that the route instructions will be available if you lose the GPS lock, your GPS is
turned off, or you are not using a GPS.
If you tap the full screen icon in the lower right corner to remove the navigation pane, you
can use the cursor pad to scroll the map. This will work even if you are selecting a different place
on the route. Tapping the icon again will turn the pane back on. It will also come back on
automatically if you can configured this in your navigation settings.
ETA
The bottom of the pane can show an optional line
that contains the time to go and the distance to go as
well as the estimated time of arrival, ETA.
ETA is computed based on the distance to go and the speed classifications of the roads on the
route. It generally does a good job of providing the answer to the question: “When are we going
to get there?” It is updated as the trip progresses. It is also useful in showing the cost of a traffic
jam in time lost by comparing the new ETA with the earlier prediction.
ETA is displayed based on your local time setting. If the destination is in another time zone you
can use the Visiting entry on the clock settings (Start > Settings > System > Clock) to set the