NaviGadget: Mio is apparently coming out with two new models: Mio Moov and Mio Moov XL. This hasn’t been made official yet but we’re guessing the name ‘moov’ is supposed to resemble the word ‘move’, not a cow.Past the name there isn’t much to see here. All we know is Mio Moov will have bluetooth con...
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NaviGadget: Pioneer AVIC-F500BT - now known as NavGate 500 was made official last Friday. One of the main innovations with NavGate 500 is the size of the screen measuring 5.8″ (14,7cm)?- which we believe is a record as far as portable nav systems go. NavGate will have 800×480 pixel (WVGA) resolutio...
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InformationWeek: First Apple came out with the iPhone, then Google announced its mobile-phone software development platform, and now GPS maker Garmin is entering the mobile phone market with a hybrid device called the nuvifone. The nuvifone, which Garmin unveiled this week, combines a cell phone, a...
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NaviGadget: HP iPAQ 310 also got a review recently. As we expected the iPAQ 310 has the best screen out there for a GPS navigation device which is super bright and has 800×480 pixel resolution. It is also very impressive in terms processor power - how about a 600MHz dual-core CPU?But the software… I...
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CNN Money: Mio Technology Corporation, a leading maker of mobile GPS devices, and Qualcomm Incorporated , a leading developer and innovator of advanced wireless technologies and data solutions, yesterday announced a collaboration to develop connected personal navigation devices (PNDs). These new con...
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NaviGadget: Magellan Triton is expected to be a big hit among hikers and geocachers with its color 2.2″ screen and rugged IPX7 waterproof design.Triton 300 is compatible with National Geographic TOPO maps, and features new Magellan VantagePoint content management software. Another nice convenient fe...
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NaviGadget: According to German site Pocket Navigation, Navigon is preparing a new, 8000 series PND, equipped with a new version of Navigon MobileNavigator (version 7) navigation software.After version 6 presented two years ago this new version would finally introduce voice synthesis as well as voic...
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NaviGadget: If you need to give your console a retro look or do not want to clutter with fancy touch screen displays you maybe interested in the TravelPilot Amsterdam NAV35E from Blaupunkt. It is all black and white and it doesn’t even show maps. Just an arrow that tells you when and which direction...
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NaviGadget: Garmin and BMW recently announced a partnership where Garmin will customize sat nav systems for BMW 1 and 3 series based on the nuvi 360.The portable GPS navigation system will have custom logos, pre-installed BMW dealer database and a special dock on the car’s instrument panel which mea...
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GPS Tracklog: TomTom has quietly been updating the firmware of older units, adding their new Map Share and Help Me features. Newly supported units include the TomTom GO 300, 510, 700, and 910, along with the TomTom ONE and ONE XL. To upgrade, simply connect your device to TomTom HOME. The only catch...
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NaviGadget: European car maker Seat is offering a new breed of GPS navigation system which is DVD based but also comes with a 30GB hard disk drive. This new add-on will set you back?€2115 - way above what you would pay for an after market GPS navigation system.The device is actually built by Siemens...
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NaviGadget: Clarion just introduced a next generation GPS navigation device called MiND which stands for Mobile Internet Navigation Device.Clarion MiND is based on Intel’s Menlow platform which is pretty much an UMPC, allowing users to connect to the internet from their navigators using Wi-Fi, and p...
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Slashgear: This is apparently the company’s first foray into this market. It’s a really tiny camera that should be mountable just about anywhere on the rear of the vehicle. Even better yet, it should be fairly easy to integrate into any existing display or navigation system. They also took it a ste...
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CNNMoney: Garmin International, a unit of Garmin, yesterday announced that Garmin will supply the BMW Group with the Garmin nuvi 360 as a customized portable navigation solution for the BMW 1 and 3 Series. “This system has numerous customizations that make it unique to BMW such as the BMW...
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GPS Business News: According to news published?in France, ViaMichelin will stop to produce its own portable navigation systems. In the inner circles of European PND manufacturers it was well known that the brand, subsidiary of the tire maker, was losing money due to the lack of real market share an...
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NaviGadget: The Garmin Colorado 300 is the base model of the new Colorado mapping handheld GPS series from Garmin and it includes worldwide basemap with shaded relief unlike the 400 models (400i, 400t, and 400c) which include specialized maps. However Colorado 300 supports SD cards so you can take a...
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NaviGadget: Hungarian NavNGo had a nice booth at CES 2008 and one of their products was the NavNGo Limousine which is designed to turn on existing display on your dashboard into a GPS navigation system. In the box you’ll find the NavNGo Limousine Navigator unit which carries the 300MHz CPU and the m...
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Electronista: Garmin is preparing a special device that it will launch next week at Macworld, says an official company blog. Though the GPS manufacturer expects to demonstrate typical Mac-compatible hardware and software at the show, it also claims to have a mystery project nicknamed “Bobc...
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NaviGadget: Supa was displaying a GPS tracking phone at CES 2008 called GT1000. GT1000 is a combination of a quad-band GSM-GPRS phone and a GPS logger and tracker powered with a SiRF Star III receiver chip. Other features include an optional MP3 Player, integrated T-Flash slot, Geo Fence and a SOS...
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Trusted Reviews: There’s nothing like a product refresh to get the New Year off to a bang, or in Garmin’s case an thermo-nuclear explosion. The sat nav expert has shown last week that it was full of busy through the festive period as it has announced three rejuvenated products li...
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