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Snooper S6800 Truckmate Sat Nav
Snooper S6800 Syrius is designed for in car use and for small van owners and features here European street-level maps.
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Key Features:
‣7-inch full colour LCD touch display
‣Pre-installed street-level maps of Europe
‣TMC traffic information technology
‣Tyre Pilot - pressure and temperature monitoring
‣MySpeed XL - Large speed limit display
‣Full Postcode search
‣Multi-route planner - up to 16 different destinations
‣Junction View and Lane Guidance
‣My Speed - speed limits
‣Your route - calculate your own bespoke routes
‣User POIs - upload and share POIs with other users
‣Bluetooth handsfree
‣MP3 player
‣MP4 player
‣Built-in rechargeable battery
‣Optional Aura speed camera database
‣1 Year manufacturers guarantee
Snooper S6800 Syrius Sat Nav
The Snooper Syrius S6800 is a great sat nav designed by Snooper. The Snooper Syrius S6800 includes 7-inch screen, FREE maps for the lifetime of the product, FREE TMC traffic information and is Bluetooth compatible for hands free calls.
The Snooper S6800 is compatible with the Snooper Tyre Pilot feature (sold separately) that will monitor and display on screen the pressure of your vehicles tyres and their temperature. Ensuring optimum tyre pressure you can save fuel and hence money.
The Snooper S6800 can feature an optional speed camera database. This will warn you to all fixed and mobile speed cameras via the GPS database throughout the UK and Europe whilst getting you from A to B. There is also My Speed database of speed limits included for FREE so you know the speed limit for every road regardless of whether there is a speed camera located along that road or not. Furthermore the S6800 has a MySpeed XL feature which displays your vehicles speed and the speed limit of the road.
The S6800 Syrius features Full Postcode search. You can also store up to 16 multiple destinations along the same route for navigation. Plus you get Lane Guidance and Junction view along motorway networks.
The Snooper S6800 is compatible with the Tyre Pilot Tyre Pressure Monitoring System (TPMS). This system works via Bluetooth to communicate the pressure and temperature of your vehicles tyres with your S6800 sat nav (viewable on screen). For the Snooper Syrius model you will need 4 PSI monitoring devices (for each wheel) that will check for 116 PSI. You can also get a PSI monitor for a spare wheel and/or a trailer. You can then set an alarm to tell you when the pressure is above or below a specified value.
Snooper S6800 Syrius accessories can be viewed and purchased here.
Snooper S6800 Models
In total there are four different Snooper S6800 sat navs these are: S6800 Syrius (for cars and small vans), S6800 Truckmate (for trucks and HGVs), S6800 Ventura (for motorhomes and caravans) and S6800 Bus and Coach (for coaches and buses).
While all four models have the same features e.g. a 7-inch touchscreen display, Bluetooth, FREE TMC traffic updates and FREE sat nav map updates. The different models are preloaded with different software, which are designed to get different motorists or more accurately different vehicles safely from A to B.
If you drive a car or a small van then you need to buy the Snooper Syrius S6800, if you drive a truck or larger vehicle such as a high-top van then the Truckmate S6800 with its truck attribute database is the model you need. On the other hand if you regularly tow a caravan or drive a motorhome then the Ventura S6800 is the model to buy.
To view the Snooper S6800 PDF manual click here.
Key Features:
‣7-inch full colour LCD touch display
‣Pre-installed street-level maps of Europe
‣TMC traffic information technology
‣Full Postcode search
‣Multi-route planner - up to 16 different destinations
‣Junction View and Lane Guidance
‣My Speed - speed limits
‣Your route - calculate your own bespoke routes
‣User POIs - upload and share POIs with other users
‣Bluetooth handsfree
‣MP3 player
‣MP4 player
‣Built-in rechargeable battery
‣Optional Aura speed camera database
‣1 Year manufacturers guarantee
Snooper S6800 Syrius Pro Manual
Looking for more information on the features of the Snooper S6800 Syrius sat nav or how it installs in your vehicle, etc? View the S6800 manual by clicking the PDF logo below. The manual opens in PDF format.
Snooper S6800 Pro Map Coverage
The Syrius S6800 includes the following countries:
UK, Ireland, France, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Austria, Switzerland, Belgium, Holland, Luxembourg, Germany, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Poland, Estonia, Lithuania, Czech Republic, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Hungary, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Serbia, Montenegro, Croatia, Turkey, Greece, Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, F.Yugoslavia Rep.of Macedonia, Russia.
Snooper AURA speed camera database
Like all Snooper speed camera detectors and sat navs, the Snooper S6800 gets its speed camera locations via the Snooper AURA speed camera database. Updated daily, the AURA database can be downloaded to the device via a PC connected to the Internet with USB connection. It's important you regularly update, as the S6800 GPS database is only as good as the last download.
snooper AURA speed camera database is available via subscription from the manufacturer and priced at £69.99 a year.
Detectable Speed Cameras
Utilising GPS detection the Snooper S6800 Syrius will provide advanced warnings to the following fixed and mobile speed cameras:
Fixed cameras:
‣Gatso
‣Truvelo
‣Truvelo D-Cam
‣SPECS
‣HADECS 3 (identified on the S6800 as a GATSO camera)
‣SpeedSpike
‣Peek
‣SpeedCurb
‣Watchman
Snooper S6800 software requirements:
The Snooper S6800 will only operate on Windows computers. Specifically, you must be using Windows Vista, Windows 7 or Windows 8. Additionally the software will only work with Internet Explorer 8 or Firefox 10 or above.
The Snooper S6800 will not operate when using Windows 95, 98, 98SE, Millennium, Windows XP and Vista (64 bit) or Apple Macintosh operating systems.
Optional subscription to speed cameras:
Like all Snooper speed camera detectors and sat navs, the Snooper S6800 receives its speed camera locations via the Snooper AURA speed camera database. It's important you regularly update, as the GPS database in your Snooper sat nav is only as good as the last download. Snooper AURA speed camera database is available via subscription from Snooper and is priced at £69.99 a year.
Camera updates:
Updates via Windows based PC.
Please note: the Snooper S6800 is not MAC compatible.
What's in the box?:
‣Snooper S6800 Syrius
‣Hard Carrying Case
‣Windscreen Mounting Bracket
‣In-vehicle Charger including TMC Antenna
‣USB Cable
‣Software CD-Rom including PDF instruction manual
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Last updated: 1st August 2024
