Archive for June, 2008
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Friday, June 20th, 2008Filed under: GPS
Move over, Dash Express. Take a seat, Garmin and Tom Tom. As of right now there’s only one GPS unit worth buying, and it’s this trick Knight Rider unit from Mio that issues directions in the voice of KITT. Yep, Mr. Feeney William Daniels is gonna be right there with you, although we […]
Dash Express now officially $300
Friday, June 20th, 2008Filed under: GPS, Wireless
Looks like that sale at Amazon’s turned into a full blown price cut — Dash has officially lowered the price on the Dash Express from $400 to $300 (not including service, of course). Of course, this can be interpreted one of two ways: they’re selling so well that economies of scale have […]
QSTARZ intros diminutive BT-Q1300 / BT-Q890 Bluetooth GPS receivers
Friday, June 20th, 2008Filed under: GPS
Leave it to QSTARZ to innovate so dramatically upon the tried-and-true Bluetooth GPS receiver design. Okay, so maybe it just created two new 66-channel ones that are exceptionally small. Up first is the new BT-Q1300, a “miniature” device that’s dubbed the world’s smallest travel recorder. Continuing on with superlatives, we see “the best” […]
Video: Garmin’s Nuvifone flicked into action
Wednesday, June 18th, 2008Filed under: Cellphones, GPS
It’s one thing to describe a UI, it’s another to see it in action. Laptop Mag just posted nearly 5 minutes of finger-flicking, auto-rotating, rubber banding video of Garmin’s hotly anticipated Nuvifone. There’s even a brief glimpse of the touch keyboard in all its landscape, predictive text glory. Sure Garmin only showed […]
nuvi 880 is up for pre-order, if you’ve got $1000 you’re dying to part with
Tuesday, June 17th, 2008Filed under: GPS
We’re sorry, we know Garmin puts a lot of TLC and, um, maps into these things, but we’re still having trouble swallowing the $1000 pricetag the company is placing on its new hotness, the nuvi 880. The device is finally up for pre-order at Amazon, so if you want to be first in […]
Garmin Nuvifone touched, prodded, abused, initial UI reports are positive
Tuesday, June 17th, 2008Filed under: Cellphones, GPS
It’s about time someone got his hands on a working Garmin Nuvifone. The folks at Laptop Magazine were lucky enough to spend some time with a prototype, reporting that the interface was snappy, the screen is nice and big, and the UI appears to be very GPS-centric. They tried the QWERTY keypad […]
Garmin’s Nuvifone is coming in white?
Tuesday, June 17th, 2008Filed under: Cellphones, GPS
The folks at NaviGadget got a couple reader-submitted shots of a white Nuvifone, but there’s no telling just now how legit they are. Garmin just shows a black version of its phone — which is still slated for Q3 at a purported $500 pricepoint — on its own site, but perhaps this […]
Is your Pioneer AVIC-F Series navigator acting up?
Tuesday, June 17th, 2008Filed under: GPS
We aren’t suggesting that these problems are widespread or anything, but a fair number of users over at AVIC411 seem to be having all sorts of issues with their (admittedly pricey) F-Series navigators. According to owners, the issues range from complete lock-ups to distorted voice commands to quirky iPod interactions — and that’s […]
TomTom speaks up about iPhone situation
Friday, June 13th, 2008Filed under: Cellphones, GPS
As if the iPhone 3G launch could really have any more misinformation floating around, we’ve got yet another tidbit that needs clarification. Shortly after Apple’s second iPhone was announced, out flew a report from Reuters suggesting that TomTom already had iPhone navigation software ready to go. French site Mac Generation was able […]
Switched On: Dash delivers open roads, open questions (Part 2)
Thursday, June 12th, 2008Filed under: GPS, Wireless
Each week Ross Rubin contributes Switched On, a column about technology, multimedia, and digital entertainment
The last Switched On discussed the traffic-fighting prowess of the the Dash Express, now available for only $299. Its leading ad hoc local information querying and traffic-finding capabilities represent the best potential to transform the portable navigation […]