Lexus have announced not one but two hybrids, though we have to say there’s only one of them that we’d like to find in the SlashGear garage. The 2010 Lexus HS 250h, shown here, is the bread & butter of the range, a four-door saloon capable of 35mpg and various combinations of hybrid power. Meanwhile the more exciting model is the Lexus LF-Ch Concept, which you can see after the cut, and which is headed to Europe to show that hybrids don’t have to be slow.
At their CeBIT press conference today, Acer unveiled the Aspire 8930G, the first notebook to use Intel’s new Core 2 Quad Mobile Processor. The Acer Aspire 8930G has an 18.4-inch 1920 x 1080 Full-HD 220-nit display, optional DVB-T digital TV tuner, up to 4GB of DDR3 memory and up to two 320GB hard-drives.
Have internet-enabled personal navigation devices – like the Dash Express – failed to see significant adoption because their connection isn’t fast enough? That seems far-fetched, but something has convinced dmedia to slap WiMAX into their latest PND, the G5W.
A GPS unit with classic 80s Knight Rider styling and the original voice of K.I.T.T. to give directions: Mio could’ve filled the box with rocks and still sold thousands to loyal fans of the TV series. Mio insist though that, behind the gimmicks, there’s a solid PND (Personal Navigation Device); SlashGear strapped on a chest-wig, unbuttoned our shirts to the waist and released a hit record in Germany to find out.
Telenav just announced the Shotgun, a new Internet-connected personal GPS navigation device (PND). The Shotgun is the company’s first two-way PND taking advantage of cellular networks to provide real-time traffic alerts, Internet content such as maps and business listings as well as updated gas prices.
Dash, makers of the highly-esteemed Dash Express GPS device, have announced they will be reorganizing their business model to concentrate on software and system licencing rather than hardware. In the process, fifty employees (out of a total workforce of around eighty) have been made redundant. The move follows Dash’s struggle to find sufficient buyers for the Express GPS to make it economically feasible; it seems that even with a massive sale at Amazon it wasn’t enough to compete in the current GPS race to the bottom line.
If you’re in the market for a new GPS, you might end up spending more than you needed to. Hopefully this SlashDeal will save you some cash. Check it out! A Dash Express GPS for just $199 on Amazon right now.
Normally priced at $299, you get a $100 savings, on the Dash Express. This GPS can offer a comprehensive solution to your traffic problems. It features the Dash Driver Network with super accurate traffic information and access to the Internet from the comfort of your car.
Best Buy are preparing to launch a pair of new GPS units that will include a cellular connection, allowing the navigation devices to access real-time traffic data and local Google searches. Released under the store’s own Insignia brand, the NS-CNV20 and NS-CNV10 will be differentiated by screen-size and hands-free use: the former will have a 4.3-inch touchscreen display and Bluetooth.
Intel have officially announced their ‘Montevina’ Centrino 2 platform, including five new processors, new chipsets and wireless products. They’ve also stoked up a high-performance version, the Centrino 2 Extreme Edition, which promises to be the world’s highest performing dual-core mobile processor. Support for WiFi draft-n and, later in the year, WiMAX are also promised, as is longer battery life.
Dash, makers of the Dash Express GPS unit, recently opened up their API so that developers could create applications taking advantage of the device’s GPS and cellular network connection. One of the newest additions to the Dash software catalogue has been Dave Zatz’s Twitter app, which not only allows you to download the latest 20 posts from your friends’ but to auto-compose messages containing anything from personal text and your address, street, city, state, latitude or longitude, to links to Yahoo! or Google mapping.
Check out the videos of the Dash Express Twitter app after the cut
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