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NaviGadget: We have many manufacturers offering pre-installed maps of Western Europe on their sat nav systems - but not many with detailed maps of Eastern Europe. Prestigio of Czech Republic is here to change that with their new GeoVision 350 GPS Navigator. This one offers pre-installed detailed map... More...

Tech: Navman?has announced its new S-Series satellite navigation models with a host of user enhancements going, it says “beyond navigation.” Indeed, the company reckons it has made over 500 changes to the models including a mileage tracker, SOS function, Bluetooth mobile integrat... More...

NaviGadget: Navman quietly introduced S90i to the GPS navigation market in Europe. S90i is their top of the line product featuring a 4.3″ touch screen, RDS/TMC live traffic information receiver and text-to-speech feature to pronounce street names. But most importantly Navman’s famous integrated NavP... More...

NaviGadget: This week, TomTom?announced in Germany that Toyota’s Yaris will come with the option of an embedded portable navigation as a part of Yaris’ built-in radio system.The best part of this system is that it is clutter free, fitting right onto Yaris’ dashboard; but at the same time it is porta... More...

As satnav units continue to get cheaper, more sophisticated and more readily available, the use of personal navigation devices is set to surge by more than 50 per cent this year, new research shows. Nearly twice as many (93 per cent more) satnav units were sold last year compared to 2005, research ... More...

NaviGadget: Takara just announced a new PND: the GP43. It has a wide screen at 10.9 cm. The navigation software is Takara TK6.1 which is based on Destinator 6 and it ships with maps of Europe coming from Navteq which is provided on a 1GB SD card.The good news for European drivers is that speed and c... More...

Akihabaranews: Panasonic has unveiled the Strada CN-GP50N GPS navigation system that will make its way to three continents by the end of October. The Strada sports a 5-inch widescreen touch sensitive LCD display, support for 21 languages, Bluetooth connectivity, a JPEG image viewer, and an SD memor... More...

NaviGadget: HP just announced the iPAQ 900 series also known as the HP Business Messenger. iPAQ 914 is the first expected model but the last two digits (9xx) is likely to change depending on your service provider. HP iPAQ 914 is a serious smartphone with a really strong feature set, specially in wir... More...

NaviGadget: RouteBuddy, mapping and GPS navigation software for Macs, just released version 1.4 which now supports Garmin nüvi and zūmo devices for import and export of waypoints/POIs, routes and tracks. In addition, it also offers support for several TomTom devices (such as GO and Rider) for waypoi... More...

NaviGadget: It looks like people at Google were working with just more than BMW in Germany to make their service available in high-end vehicles. Mercedes introduced a service called “Search & Send” that lets drivers search for a destination in Google Maps or Yahoo Local Maps and send this ... More...

NaviGadget: Mio’s new GPS enabled PDA, Mio P360, is making an appearance at IFA in Berlin this year. Not a lot of details are revealed but we already know that P360 will run Windows Mobile 6, have Wi-Fi connectivity, Bluetooth 2.0, and an embedded GPS antenna. On the right hand side of the device... More...

NaviGadget:?Back in March?some BMW navigation systems were?working with Google Maps. It looks like the system is ready to go and available to consumers already. Only in Deutschland though.”BMW is the only automobile manufacturer to offer the Google local search in the car - available now. ... More...

Mobile Magazine: It’s amazing how popular GPS?has become in recent years. It used to be such an elitist technology that was either deployed by rich people in their expensive luxury vehicles or by geography buffs who needed the tech for work purposes. Garmin has become the number one person... More...

VNUnet: Japanese electronics giant Sharp has developed a new LCD which incorporates optical sensors in each pixel. The company claims that the technology provides a more efficient way of making multi-touch sensitive screens such as those used in Apple’s iPhone. “The panel allow... More...

NaviGadget: Packard Bell?is attending IFA 2007 in Berlin as well and they’ve got their GPS navigation systems to show off. One of them is the Compasseo 800. It has a 4.3 inch (10.92 cm) wide screen so it is not necessarily their entry level system.The bluetooth function of the Compasseo 800 lets you... More...

Auto Express: Sat-nav owners are less likely to have a crash. That’s the UK’s RAC view, in spite of Government research that said the kit could be a distraction. The motoring group’s insurer claims it’s the only provider to offer premium discounts for motoris... More...

TechDigest:? A local County Council in the UK doesn’t think that sat nav drivers are safer; not?at least for truck?drivers who’ve been following sat-nav instructions and carving up the village of Exton, near Winchester, anyway. They responded to damaged properties and stuck vehi... More...

Springwise: According to independent research (…), personal navigation devices (PND) have another important benefit: a positive influence on traffic safety. Part of the research focused on data collected on 115,197 drivers of lease cars. Those without PNDs had a 12% higher rate of damage i... More...

Navigadget: Nokia just announced that its mapping and navigation platform smart2go would be free for all. The platform is a hybrid map solution combining map data from Tele-Atlas and Navteq which can be downloaded directly via wireless network (e.g. GPRS/3G/WLAN) and stored on the devices memory ca... More...

Navigadget: A lot of people have been talking back and forth about the RIM’s new Blackberry 8800 but nobody was sure if it would have GPS navigation capability or not -until today- when it was officially announced at the 3GSM conference in Barcelona, Spain. Through its built-in GPS, the BlackBerry ... More...