Notice to owners of GPS Unit Kit "GPS-CS3KA" for update program of "GPS Image Tracker"

August 27, 2009

Sony Corporation
Sony Marketing (Japan) Inc.
Sony Customer Service (Japan) Inc.

Thank you for your continued interest in Sony products.

Sony is offering an update program for "GPS Image Tracker Ver.2.1.00" software supplied with GPS Unit Kit "GPS-CS3KA" which was launched in March 2009. Any customers requiring this service are requested to update the GPS Image Tracker software according to the following procedure.

[ Applicable model ]

GPS-CS3KA

[ Main symptoms to be improved ]

This updater "GPS Image Tracker Ver.2.1.10" will improve following symptoms which may rarely occur when GPS Image Tracker loads GPS logs from applicable models of the GPS Unit. After applying this update program, the symptom 2 will be automatically corrected, and the symptoms 1 and 3 will be corrected with the additional operation of the software.

It may display incorrect start and end date and time of the GPS logs recording.
It may display incorrect route besides correct one.
It may not be able to "match" position information and image data.

In detail, please refer to download WEB site.

[ Contact in Japan ](Japanese and English only)

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[ Contact outside Japan ]

Please contact a nearest Sony service center stated on the backside of the warranty card. http://www.sony.jp/products/overseas/contents/info.html#info02

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