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7 posts from August 2009
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How Mio's GPS products are made
Deep between the chrome and glass towers of Mio HQ, under crystal statues, and iconography of their glorious leader, hidden away in a white walled Faraday cage, there are men; bespectacled men with bottle-bottom glasses, working tirelessly to design beautifully crafted, thin, stylish devices that will look great adorning living rooms, bedrooms or cars.
Once designed, these products have to be realized. Batteries, GPS receivers and other bits and pieces shipped from the supplier via underground waterways using customized peddle boats, powered by muscular legged Amazons.
The touch panel screens and plastic housings are constructed using the highest grade materials, smelted from nearby mines and formed in the foundries of the foothills of Taiwan.
Once the materials have been collected it’s time to put them together. This is done by a dedicated team of highly skilled fitters who slavishly put the fiddly components into ever smaller housing.
Completed products are boxed by elfish looking people and shipped to the 4 corners of the world by a bearded man and 6 reindeers.
The End
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On the weekend of the 8th of August typhoon Morakot battered southern Taiwan. Click here to see how the area was affected. Many thousands of people were left homeless and over 500 people lost their lives.
To aid in the rebuilding of these communities MiTAC donated NT$4m (US$ 121,440) in cash and 100 specially adapted Mio GPS devices worth NT$1m (US$ 30,000) - using TMC technology to tell rescuers exactly where broken road and bridges are so they can be avoided. MiTAC and Mio employees also donated over NT$1.7m (US$52,000). All of the above money and equipment was given to the Red Cross to aid their rescue effort.
Read More:Please refer to Mio Taiwan Official Website.
Once again the Mio Moov V series proves that it outshines the competition. Recently launched in Germany, the V735 collects the coveted Infostat 'Retail Tip' award.
To quote Infostat:
“With the Moov Spirit V735 TV Mio created a multi talent, which succeeded in all areas of the test. User friendliness, flawless picture and reception quality, a clearly arranged individual navigation solution with useful extra information and high class manufacture make the navigation and TV combination a real recommendation.”
The Moov V735 is one of Mio's range of Portable Navigation Devices (PND) that can receive digital TV signals. Using the popular DVB-T standard and incorporating two receivers the V series ensure that digital TV can be watched (by your passengers) whether you're on the move or when you're parked up somewhere.
All of the V series models come with Mio's latest Spirit navigation software with its TruMap™ paper-like map view, extensive range of Points-of-Interest and capture button for saving details of journeys and locations. To read more about Spirit read here.
To read more about the V735 read the following websites:
German -
http://eu.mio.com/de_de/moov-spirit-v735-tv.htm
English - http://eu.mio.com/en_eu/moov-spirit-v735-tv.htm
Read More:Please refer to Mio Germany Official Website.


