After a few days of rumors about NAVIGON withdrawal from the North American market, NAVIGON’s CEO Egon Minar spoke this morning to GPS Business News: “Due to the difficult economic environment and the aggressive pricing we have decided to withdraw from the PND business in North America for the time being. We are however not closing down our Chicago office which will continue to serve our automotive and mobile phone businesses in North America.”
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Today at the consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, PND manufacturer TomTom has announced the launch of its first two-way connected personal navigation device (PND). Scheduled to be available in the second quarter of 2009 the TomTom GO 740 LIVE will cost $499 including a one year free subscription for the associated “Live” services.
ALK Technologies has announced a special edition of its award-winning mobile phone navigation system, CoPilot Live 7, for the exciting new HTC Touch Diamond smartphone.
Garmin International, Inc., a unit of Garmin Ltd.today announced the nuvi 260, a sleek, simple-to-use, and value-priced personal navigation device (PND) that speaks street names. Like other products in the nuvi 200-series lineup, the nuvi 260 offers budget savvy consumers the benefit of a premium in-dash system at a fraction of the cost.
A new chip designed for portable wireless devices combines the coverage of two satellite-based navigation services to offer a location tracking time of less than one second.
Well Judie is up to it again and has a fantastic set of unboxing photos of the Spectec SD GPS receiver. This just seems like a bigger accessory than I originally was counting on. I am interested in seeing what Chris has to say about battery life when this device is in use..
One of the gifts that I found under the tree this year was the Garmin StreetPilot c330. I have wanted a GPS system ever since I installed the in-dash entertainment/GPS system in my wife’s SUV a few years ago. Although I would have liked the in-dash unit I thought it would be better to get a portable one so I can take it with me when I travel.
TomTom, a leading navigation solution provider, today announces the launch of its new integrated solution for PDAs and smartphones – TomTom NAVIGATOR 6, the ideal solution for customers who need their PDA or smartphone and navigation system integrated in one personal device.
he past week I have been using CoPilot Live for the Motorola Q and I have to say it is as good as or even better than my TomTom Go 300 unit. One of my biggest concerns was if the unit would run slow and or very slow with route corrections. This weekend I made 6 trips with numerous different changes in my route to see how the CoPilot reacted. Pleasantly suprised this unit responded quickly and effectively.
This is bad news! I am very sorry to see a company abandon a user base by not providing map updates for the US. I would like to see if any of you have support issues. I am going to expire our review since it is not relevant any longer.
It's Friday, 10 p.m. Do you know where your friends are? You could give them a call, but if their mobile phones are equipped with the latest in satellite navigation, you could also go to a Web site such as Mologogo (www.mologogo.com) to find their whereabouts on a map, accurate to within a few yards
Here is a pretty cool device that will help to keep you on the right track when you are doing outdoor activities. The Globalsat GH-601/602 provides a full featured physical training system to help you reach your optimal goal.
Fiddling around with in-car satellite navigation systems is causing motorists to lose concentration on the road, according to a survey on Tuesday.
The MyGuide Pocket PC with built-in GPS receiver and OnCourse Navigator 5 software combines a personal information manager and GPS navigation system in one easy-to-carry device
As GPS technology gets better and better and smaller and smaller it will be able to be used for many things? For instance at the World Series a baseball hit into the third level will be able to be recorded by GPS as to exactly how far it was hit and it's trajectory to formulate where it would have actually landed had the stadium been flat. Thus we will be able to tell who was the greatest homerun power house of all times, perhaps even who is on steroids based on their body mass, speed of pitch, GPS data and haptics (body movement and form).
u-blox AG, the leading Swiss provider of innovative GPS receiver technology, announced the provision of Assisted GPS ("A-GPS") services that supply instant location information, reducing GPS receivers' Time To First Fix ("TTFF") to just a few seconds.
buyGPSnow.com is proud to present the new i-Blue Bluetooth GPS receiver. The i-Blue has some exciting features that no other consumer Bluetooth GPS receiver can match.
Win a 3 day trip for two persons to the world famous "Oktoberfest" in Munich - including flight and accommodation in a comfortable hotel.
The quest for ever smaller GPS enabled equipment, such as mobile phones, PDAs and even watches has just taken a giant step forward with the development of the worlds smallest GPS radio frequency receiver module by a New Zealand company.
The Alpine Blackbird (PMD-B100) is small, portable, and offers more than just standard navigation. Easily move your Blackbird from car-to-car! Its sleek black aluminum design is small enough to fit in your jacket pocket!
GPS is a satellite navigation system that provides coded satellite signals that are received in a receiver, enabling the calculation of position, velocity and time and software stores and processes this data. The user manuals explain the basic functions of the GPS system, but they don't go into detail about the finer points of the technology, and they don't tell users how to modify it, tweak it, and hack it in order to get the most out of a GPS system. The latest title in John Wiley & Sons' ExtremeTech series, HACKING GPS shows readers not only how to get more out of their GPS, how to take their device and skills to new levels.
On Thanksgiving afternoon, reports started showing up on the Yahoo 60CS and Groundspeak GPS message boards, about a new line of Garmin receivers. Initial reports referenced pages on Basspro.com for the following models:
I am excited to announce OnCourse has released the MyGuide 500 all in one GPS unit. Unfortunately I am going to retire my TomTom 300 unit since the MyGuide 500 is a fabulous device! You wont want to miss Jack's review of this innovative GPS unit!
