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CES 2006 throught the “eyes” of Nuvi 350

The 2006 CES is now over. The people at Garmin had the idea of creating a blog that would follow CES through the “eyes” of their all in one brand new GPS the nuvi 350. If you want to see how this little gadget experienced the 2006 CES drop by it’s blog.

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Garmin Forerunner 205 and 305

Garmin introduced two new products in the forerunner series, Garmin’s popular GPS-enabled fitness product line, the forerunner 205 and 305. These two new GPS devices have been completed redesigned (and imho they look much better). However, besides the new look the redesign of the forerunner series serves also some functionality purposes. The new design wraps [...]

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Pharos announces Traveler 525 GPS

Pharos has announced the launch of a new GPS device the Pharos Traveler GPS 525. According to Pharos this new GPS device is the first ever and smallest GPS handheld with integrated WiFi and Bluetooth technology. 525 comes preloaded with top 50 U.S. metropolitan maps and Skype for Pocket PC. The main features of this [...]

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ChitterChatter GPS/phone by Hop-On

Hop-On has released a phone that seems an ideal solution for parents that want to track their kids. Chitter-Chatter looks like a wrist watch, is lightweight and very affordable (less than 50$). The ChitterChatter Phone allows kids to stay in touch with close family and friends, or send their location by pressing the one-touch star [...]

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Globalsat announces TR-101 and the GH-600 series

Globalsat, a Taiwanese company founded in 2000 has announced two new GPS devices the TR-101 and the GH-600 series. The TR-101 is a personal remote positioning device which has a built-in GPS and GSM modules. It is capable of transmitting the longtitude and latittude coordinates to your cell phone or your computer using the GPRS [...]

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Magellan RoadMate 800 firmware update.

Magellan has released an update for the firmware of the RoadMate 800 GPS receiver (v. 1.04) This new firmware version resolves a number of issues.

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Verizon announces Cell phone navigation (VZ Navigator)

About a week ago, Verizon has unveiled a new servive that will allow everyone to have a navigation system with turn-by-turn routing and voice instructions within their cell phone the Verizon VZ Navigator. For more information read the very informative article from PcMag

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Sorell NF1 – All in one

Sorell has announced a new handheld gadget called NF1. This little device tries to be an all in one solution since it plays movies, mp3 and it is also a fully functional GPS device. The Sorell NF1 has a 2.2 inch 260.000 colors screen. It is also equipped with 1 GB of flash memory. However [...]

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Sony announced NV-U50 and NV-U70T

Although Sony hasn’t been really successful in the past with it’s first GPS units the the people at Sony seem determined not to withdraw from the GPS market. The two new models announced are the NV-U50 and the NV-U70T. The first one is the entry level unit and some of it’s features include. 3.5 inch [...]

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