Mar 6 2009Real Product Review Coming!: Clarion MiND
That's right folks, a real, honest-to-God product review from yours truly. It should be up in the next couple of days and will cover the Clarion MiND (Mobile Internet Navigation Device). Per the manufacturer:
Combining personal GPS navigation and real-time Points of Interest (POI) with Internet based entertainment and full web browsing, the easily portable and pocketable Clarion MiND Mobile Internet Navigation Device provides rich GPS navigation with full PC-like Internet browsing capabilities thanks to its 4.8-inch, 800 x 480-pixel touchscreen. You can connect to the Internet via Wi-Fi at home, in the office or via hotspots out and about in the city. The ClarionMiND also allows for Internet connectivity via Bluetooth when paired with a mobile phone.
Expect pictures of my hands, and, if you're lucky, maybe even some of my car's dash! Now, is there anything in particular you want to know before I punch in the address of the nearest liquor store and massage parlor? Ask away, then stay tuned for the lowdown. Oh, and if anyone asks, I'm totally not driving without a license.
Hit the jump for some wack-ass commercial for the thing.
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Reader Comments
1. Jeezy - March 6, 2009 3:30 PM
If official, Geekologie has SOLD OUT.
2. Pat - March 6, 2009 3:32 PM
No way, good for you GW!
Also, it looks like that commercial was conceived/filmed circa 1986.
3. $.02 and a pocket full of FAH-Q - March 6, 2009 3:34 PM
Non-Lego'd Face Pics or GTFO
4. lld - March 6, 2009 3:34 PM
3!
5. ^ = FAIL - March 6, 2009 3:41 PM
That is all.
6. Gordon "Fücking" Shumway - March 6, 2009 3:43 PM
So this is why I need an umlaut in my name? Ghey!
7. zandar - March 6, 2009 3:47 PM
can you surf pr0n?
8. Ian Cunningham (Izzy) - March 6, 2009 3:54 PM
you guys are all retards...
9. Warren Piece - March 6, 2009 4:10 PM
So... this is basically an Apple iPhone or iPod Touch, but 8x bulkier. Hmmmm... I'll pass.
10. QUASIMODEM - March 6, 2009 4:26 PM
Hoping these hands of which you speak aren't black.
11. Leonidas - March 6, 2009 4:28 PM
When are you going to review that chainsaw-tongue-licking hybrid pleasure machine?
12. QUASIMODEM - March 6, 2009 5:03 PM
Yeah, but it's probably good, Warren, something it'd have over the Apple products.
13. Bent - March 6, 2009 5:05 PM
"The Mind makes wishes come true."
How ironic, I wished more rich people who throw away their money on useless crap instead of doing some good would die in a fire. I'm sure this thing is primed for extreme "disctractability" on the road. Dreams do come true! Thanks again GW for reminding me, let's hope it makes some of your wishes come true? (Perhaps if you use it as a blunt instrument on others? It's no Sega laser...but it might do the trick?)
14. formerly SPELLINGNAZI© - March 6, 2009 6:08 PM
Could've done without the creepy young Vincent Price there...
So is this anything new, or just another company re-releasing the same thing that's already out?
15. Sally - March 6, 2009 7:40 PM
Honestly, if this thing gets anything less than destroyed in its review you have just lost a reader. That said, there is nothing funnier (and this IS Geekologie, right) than biting the hand that feeds you.
16. NUTZBABIE - March 7, 2009 2:23 AM
could it be that daisy has has nothing to say because there is nothing fake about this product thats NUTZ
17. Yoav - March 7, 2009 2:24 AM
whats this? you're doing reviews now? thats not funny...
smells like a SELL OUT :P
18. masumi - March 7, 2009 6:04 AM
and when do the lucky readers get a glimpse of your face?
i'll show you mine if you show me yours...
p.s.
not a dude.
19. Truk - March 7, 2009 9:28 AM
Wow, big moment for the gw, you must be excited.
Loser.
20. injapan - March 7, 2009 10:53 AM
whatev about being a sellout, i'd be more interested in reading gw reviews than most others out there (although i am expecting a thrashing). and here's another non dude seconding the request for a face shot. i mean pic, face PIC!
21. ~zeus~ - March 7, 2009 11:08 AM
i'm with 15 on this one!
22. lol - March 7, 2009 12:54 PM
THIS was post? Srsly? I don't even know if I'd even care about the review itself, let alone a preview of a review.
23. lol - March 7, 2009 12:55 PM
** a post
24. Dr. Gonja - March 7, 2009 8:02 PM
Take a picture from where you insert post on to this website.
25. Bex - March 7, 2009 9:29 PM
I think cries of "sell-out" are coming a bit soon, as nothings *actually* been reviewed yet. If its an honest review, its not a sell-out.
GW, I for one would like to know why its better (if it is, which I doubt) than the latest offering from Archos. Also, any storage? USB ports? I need a new toy to pretend that I'm saving for...
26. Travis - March 8, 2009 6:08 PM
What is the real-world battery life on this thing for just internet, and just GPS?
What mapset does it use?
Any expandable memory slots?
27. claire - December 7, 2009 3:20 PM
the new produict is really cool. But i would really like to know more imformation about the product