Tag Archive for 'garmin'
It’s been a shorter working week what with Thanksgiving on Thursday, and much of the gadget news has been around what offers, bargains and discounts were on offer at cash-strapped retailers. SlashGear has done its bit to ease your present picking pickle, with the 2008 Holiday Gift Guide. We’ve also had reviews of [...]
We’ve been hearing about the Garmin Nuvifone for quite some time now. It was slated for release earlier this year, but now it seems the early 2009 release timeframe is set in stone. This phone will be offered from a carrier exclusively, though which carrier is still unknown.
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.
At first glance we’d expect Garmin’s new Nuvi 510 to be a budget model. After all, the 3.5-inch screen is smaller (and regular aspect rather than widescreen) than most other new GPS devices we see, and there’s no fancy graphics or clever 3D building renders. However Garmin intend the 510 to be used not only [...]
It’s not just the bargain end that Garmin are tackling. The company also has Navigon’s new 7200T in their sights, with the new nüvi 7×5 series of in-car GPS devices. Each of the four models - the nüvi 755T, 765T, 775T and 785T - have a 4.3-inch wide-aspect touchscreen, lane assist for close-up detail of intersections, semi-transparent 3D [...]
A fresh batch of entry-level GPS units from Garmin, in the shape of the nüvi 265T, 265WT and 275T. Each has Bluetooth for use as an in-car handsfree kit, lifetime traffic alerts from NAVTEQ Traffic and Garmin’s HotFix technology which promises faster positioning locks through caching satellite information.
It may have been pretty quiet from Seamless WiFi since we first saw their S-XGen UMPC back in September 2006, but the company would like us to know that they’ve not been sitting on their hands all this time. Apparently Seamless have been “very cautiously” deciding on GPS software for the UMPC - now renamed [...]
Garmin’s new Oregon handheld GPS range, the existence of which was tipped earlier this week when product descriptions hit the online stores, has been officially confirmed by the company. Five models are available, ranging from the the basic Oregon 200 and shaded relief-mapped Oregon 300, to three 400-series devices each tailored to different outdoor activities. [...]
Details of Garmin’s upcoming GPS range refresh have been revealed at Buy.com, suggesting a new range of handheld GPS receivers. The Oregon 200 will include a 3-inch color touchscreen (that’s outdoor-readable), high-sensitivity GPS, electronic compass, barometric altimeter and temperature sensor. Map data will be courtesy of a 3D basemap as well as a digital elevation model, [...]
Portal has spawned several references that I’m sure will take quite a while to fade out. Especially “the cake is a lie” random bits that seem to pop up. Now, Portal has managed to get a Portal GPS system, which is wrong on so many levels.
