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- Garmin Nuvi 200 Review
This a budget gps system from garmin, check the latest prices here. This is what you get in the box: nüvi 200 Preloaded Maps for U.S., Hawaii and Puerto Rico (no Alaska or Canada detail) Vehicle suction cup mount Vehicle power cable Dashboard disk Set up and go guide This machine handles the basics of car navigation system very well is [...]
Thu, 03 May 2007 11:51:55 +0000 - Garmin announce a very strong quarter
Garmin announced its first 2007 quarter earnings: Revenues were up 53% from last year. They shipped a total of 1.55 million units. Here is a breakdown by segments of Garmin’s earnings: Automobile segment - Up 110% Outdoor/Fitness segment - Down 5% Aviation segment - Up 26% Marine segment - Down 15% Growth by Geographical areas: North America - Up 60% Europe - [...]
Thu, 03 May 2007 11:31:35 +0000 - Top 10 GPS Navigation Systems for April
GPS Tracklog have just released their top ten list for handheld and car gps navigation systems. They rank the gps systems based on the number of times the units’ reviews have been read on GPS Tracklog. Top Ten gps vehicle navigation system: Garmin nuvi 350 - Check Price Garmin nuvi 360 - Check Price Garmin nuvi 660 - Check [...]
Tue, 01 May 2007 12:54:41 +0000 - Monthly Review for April on GPS Systems
With a ton of gps navigation systems coming out this spring, April was really busy. Here is a list of the top posts that we put out last month. Top GPS Car Navigation Systems under $300 GPS Software for your PDA or Smartphone Gps Navigation System prices are dropping Top 10 selling GPS Marine Systems GPS [...]
Tue, 01 May 2007 12:26:26 +0000 - Freeway collapse in Oakland - What to do on your GPS
The I-580 freeway collapse in Oakland totally takes out a freeway that might get routed in your GPS Navigation device. This should not be a problem for the people who get traffic updates downloaded to your gps navigation systems, but for the people who don’t there is still a fix around this. Most Garmin, Magellan and [...]
Mon, 30 Apr 2007 12:15:45 +0000 - GPS Software for your PDA or Smartphone
Making the right choice of software ensures that you will use it often. GisUser have done an extensive review on several software titles and the article can be found here. This is a review of 5 leading sofware solutions for your PDA, Smartphone or Windows Mobile Device. The software titles are: CoPilot Live 6 from ALK [...]
Fri, 27 Apr 2007 12:25:30 +0000 - A handheld GPS navigation system without maps
isiNav is a simple navigation system for pedestrians. The device has got an in-built GPS receiver, a button to mark the current location of the user and a LED display unit to show the directions to the marked location. Once the user has pressed the button, the device shows always the direction to the marked [...]
Thu, 26 Apr 2007 21:58:34 +0000 - Top 10 selling GPS Marine Systems
GPS Marine Chartplotters are all easy to use and are great on water, most of these systems come with a standard built in basemaps and also accept offshore marine cartography. Here is the top ten selling chartplotters: Garmin GPSMap 76 Garmin GPSMap 276C HumminBird RF 25 Smartcast Garmin GPSMap 440S Garmin GPSMap 520S Garmin GPSMap 276C Standard CP175C Garmin GPSMAP 172C HumminBird 947C [...]
Thu, 26 Apr 2007 12:35:33 +0000 - Get a gps navigation system in your Jacket
A clothes designer from Germany recently introduced io-Jacket during Cebit last month. It is a hi-tech jacket that has a built in Mp3 player, cell phone and GPS. The GPS system uses GPSoverIP which uses the cell phone connection to store location data, which means that it will still be able to [...]
Thu, 26 Apr 2007 12:18:41 +0000 - GPS Systems and your PC don’t mix
A study by the Swedish Defence Research Agency has found that many intel processors found in our PC’s interfere with the frequecy signals that GPS Navigation sytems use. What this basically means is that using a computer in a car, plane, boat, or anywhere a GPS system is used, can make the GPS device to [...]
Wed, 25 Apr 2007 11:52:57 +0000 - LG Releases 3 New GPS Navigation Systems
LG have just released 3 new gps navigation systems for the US. The LN730, LN735 and LN740 are slated to start appearing in retail stores around the first half of May. The three units feature turn-by-turn voice guidance, touchscreen displays, SiRF Star III GPS receivers, maps covering the United States and Canada, and [...]
Tue, 24 Apr 2007 11:56:00 +0000 - Top GPS Car Navigation Systems under $300
What is the best gps car navigation system under $300? Which models do you suggest? … We get questions like this every week and decided to post a list of the top gps car systems under $300 that gpsdock.com sold during the first quarter of this year. Most of these systems provide features like [...]
Mon, 23 Apr 2007 12:32:03 +0000 - Tomtom updates all its maps
Tomtom have announced the release of updated maps for their whole product line. The catch — you have to pay for the new maps. Article and pictures from Gpsmagazine.com The maps are available via TomTom’s Map Shop.
Fri, 20 Apr 2007 16:26:42 +0000 - Gps Navigation System prices are dropping
PriceGrabber.com released a study that looked at the data that it has which includes more than 24 million unique visitors, 11,000 merchants and vendors, plus more than 300 networks of sites. They concluded that the prices of gps navigation systems have dropped by over 15 percent year-over-year in February 2007 compared to the same [...]
Fri, 20 Apr 2007 15:00:10 +0000 - Pioneer AVIC-S2 - Bluetooth, MP3 Player
Pioneer have annouced the release of their new portable GPS Navigation System called the AVIC-S2. It offers features like an advanced route guidance system, MP3 Playback and bluetooth. You will also get about 1. million points of interest which include shopping malls, retaurants and others, all the information will be preloaded on a 1GB [...]
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