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.
While 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.
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…)
T-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.
It’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.
