Posts Tagged ‘GPS’

Tuesday, January 4th, 2011

Garmin outs StreetPilot GPS app for iPhone   Garmin StreetPilot app

Looking for a way around using just your iPhone? Here’s a good one if you don’t mind parting with 40 bucks. Garmin just put out StreetPilot, the company’s first navigation app for the iPhone. The app adds full turn-by-turn directions, lane assist, 2D and 3D map views, weather and real-time traffic updates to a device that probably already have in your pocket.

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Thursday, July 15th, 2010

Magellan’s new eXplorist GPS units are built the way they should be   Magellan eXplorist 710While it seems like every handheld device these days come with a GPS receiver, not every GPS-packing portable can be used in the wild. Magellan’s new eXplorist devices, the 710, 610, and 510, all come with the basic features that we should all expect from a dedicated navigator (which means you get maps, road routes, and points of interest), but also come with an important bonus for frequent travelers and outdoorsy-types: they’re built to be tough.

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Tuesday, June 8th, 2010

CoPilot Live USA makes its way to the iPhone   CoPilot Live USA banner

There are heaps of maps both printed and in digital formats out there to help guide you during your hours on the road, especially on this annual roadtrip frenzy we call summer. Perhaps as a response to the new (albeit in beta) turn-by-turn GPS navigation system Google’s Android OS has on devices running 2.0 (Éclair), ALK Technologies has updated their CoPilot Live North America app and shipped it over to the iPhone OS. (more…)

Wednesday, May 26th, 2010

T Mobile to start selling the Garminfone on June 9   T Mobile Garminfone 2T-Mobile has just announced that the Garminfone, the dedicated GPS-smartphone built by Asus and Garmin, will be available on store shelves on June 9. The partnership between the two brands have resulted in a number of GPS-equipped mobile phones, but this marks the first Garmin-branded smartphone for the US market.

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Wednesday, May 5th, 2010

TomTom offers Star Wars voices: let Darth Vader guide you to your destination   TomTom Star WarsIt’s totally unnecessary, but unnecessarily awesome nonetheless. TomTom has teamed up with Lucasfilm to give you the (again, awesome) option to replace your TomTom navigator’s default “voice” with Star Wars voices, including Darth Vader, Yoda, Han Solo, and C-3PO.

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