At Auto Expo, Delphi Product & Service Solutions (DPSS) introduced the Delphi Service Center, a new initiative that helps ensure independent automotive garages benefit fully from the opportunities in the service and repair of air-conditioned vehicles. The Delphi Service Center concept, first launched at the Equip’Auto show in Paris provides garages with a real solution for the growing technical challenges they face.
“The Delphi Service Center allows garages to benefit from Delphi’s full line of products, tools and training that leverages our 100 years of OE expertise as a Tier-1 supplier to the global automotive industry,” explained Dominic Seto, Managing Director of DPSS Asia Pacific. “This concept gives the installer the parts, tools and training that he or she needs to be successful.”
The Delphi Service Center is global and provides a flexible platform, allowing a garage to participate by stocking a single product line or multiple Delphi product lines for growth and expansion with sustained success. In India, the Center is being introduced specifically to help capitalise on the increasing growth in the Indian air-conditioned parc. It has been designed to offer a structured and comprehensive solution, providing garages with an opportunity to enter this rapidly expanding market.
The Service Center package includes all makes of diagnostic equipment covering all modern air-conditioning systems, training, removal/refit tools, marketing support, qualified technical support, OE replacement products, and electronic cataloguing.
Delphi also launched its new portable navigation system, NAV200, in India. To ensure national reach and top-of-the-line after-sales support, Delphi has Xenos Technologies Ltd. as its sales and service partner.
First-time users of navigation will find this unit, which just fits into one’s palm, quite easy to use. Ready to go right out of the box, the NAV200 installs in just two simple steps via an included suction cup windshield mount or unique suction disk for dash mount.
Consumers are becoming increasingly discerning, and there is mounting demand for high-end products. New users will also avoid the typical hassles of downloading navigation software on the computer and synchronizing it with the unit. Instead, NAV200 comes with an all-India map already preloaded on a 1 GB SD card. There is no downloading required.
With NAV200, consumers could drive from anywhere across India using national and State highways, inside detailed maps of 18 major cities, tourists & business landmarks as well as 200,000 points of interest.
The NAV200 home screen features a bright, colorful interface with large round icons on a touch screen for simple selections. Voice guided directions via built-in speakers also makes navigating simpler by eliminating the need to look at the screen once your preferred route is set.
“In addition to the sophisticated navigation features, NAV200 has popular entertainment functionality, including a movie player, music player and picture viewer for use when not navigating. Delphi has effectively blended these desirable technologies while maintaining a budget-conscious price in such a way that cannot currently be found in the industry”, stated Mr. Rajiv Arora, Director, Delphi Product & Service Solutions.
The NAV200 boasts industry-leading navigation features. It is driven by one of the most powerful processors in the industry at 400 MHz for faster routing calculations. NAV200 features a high quality SIRFstart III GPS chipset antenna, which offers high sensitivity to position for improved mapping accuracy. And it uses the industry-leading mapping database from mapmyindia, which is trusted by industry users.
This combination of advanced navigation features results in fast and accurate routing calculations – packaged together at a very competitive MRP of Rs. 21,000.
The NAV200 popular entertainment features are accessed via optional secure digital (SD) cards upto 2 GB. SD memory cards are available for purchase and should be used to store media files such as video (avi), images (jpg, gif, png) and/or audio (mp3, wav) files. The entertainment features are also complemented by a world clock, calculator and game.
The NAV200’s sleek portable package features a large 3.5” bright, anti-glare, full color LCD touch screen great for watching movies or a picture show in the backseat, at home or on the go with a built-in, rechargeable battery.
Speaking about the Navigation software & maps, Mr. Rajiv Arora observed: “Delphi has established a partnership with MapmyIndia who provides the industry-leading mapping database called Mapmyindia navigator HI-18 with navigation software from Horizon Navigation Inc. There is a commitment to provide periodic updates to the maps and Point of Interest (POI) locations”.
