Tag Archive for 'gps'
Matters of privacy have been in the news recently, as Google’s Street View cars continue their initial mapping of the UK. The search giant was criticised by campaigners concerned that their street-level photography constituted an intrusion of privacy and asked the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) to look into the project. However the ICO ruled it [...]
If you like to match your satnav to your vehicle, and you drive a Jeep, you’ll be pleased to know that the company has announced a new GPS. Clad in tire-effect rubber, the Jeep GPS Navigator RT-300 has a 3.5-inch touchscreen and can be set to announce street names to avoid you needing to take your eyes [...]
ASUS’ R50A UMPC has been delivered to the FCC and promptly stripped of all its dignity in the usual batch of open-casing photographs. The R50A is based on Intel’s Z520 Silverthorne 1.33GHz CPU and was first announced in November last year; as well as a 5.6-inch 1024 x 600 touchscreen and choice of 8, 16 [...]
Over at PHONE Magazine the full review of HP’s iPAQ 910 Business Messenger smartphone is up, and it’s turned out to be a pretty impressive handset. Running Windows Mobile 6.1 Pro with a QVGA touchscreen, full QWERTY keyboard and the best stylus we’ve seen for years, the iPAQ 910 could honestly be considered a return to form [...]
It may look like an Urban Assault Chumby, but this rubberised device is actually Becker’s latest GPS. The Z100 - nicknamed ‘Crocodile’ because of its apparent scaling - has a 4.3-inch wide-aspect touchscreen and full European mapping stored on a 2GB SD card. Mapping data is provided by Navteq.
If you bought into the ASUS Eee early on, and now are looking enviously at the array of budget ultraportables available today, why not redirect your angst into crafting an upgrade for the compact notebook. Since there are numerous points on the Eee motherboard where both 3.3v and 5v power can be tapped into, plus [...]
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, [...]
Sanyo has announced another fiendishly-complicated looking GPS system with an unusual name. The NV-SD585DT ‘Gorilla’ has a 5.8-inch touchscreen, 4GB SSD and a 1-Seg digital TV tuner. There’s also an ECO driving mode, as seen recently on Digitalcube’s U7 GPS.
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.
