Admit it, there’s one thing a dedicated navigation device (PND) does better than most mobile phones and PDAs: free traffic information via TMC/RDS over FM radio.

There are solutions to this, but most of them consist of a special charging cable plugged into the cigarette lighter and at the other end of the cable a custom jack for your pda or mobile phone.

Free traffic information with the GNS TrafficBoxPlus RDS TMC Bluetooth receiver

Now there’s a very elegant alternative, created by the experts in RDS/TMC receivers: GNS TrafficBoxPlus FM9BT-Y doesn’t come cheap, but it offers a few very interesting advantages over the other solutions:

  • Fixed and hidden installation in your car
  • Perfect reception by using the car antenna
  • Bluetooth connects with virtually all recent devices

Let’s have a look…
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