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Stealth NW-2000 rugged convertible touchscreen notebook

By Chris Davies on Friday, Aug 7th 2009 No Comments

Stealth Computer have unveiled their latest notebook, the NW-2000, a ruggedized hybrid laptop/tablet based around Intel’s 1.06GHz Core 2 Duo, a 13.3-inch sunlight viewable resistive touchscreen and MIL-STD-810F, shock & vibration compliance. The sturdy convertible has 2GB of RAM (4GB maximum), a 160GB shock-mounted hard-drive (or optional SSD) and spill-resistant keyboard, and can cope with being dropped 91cm onto a wood-covered concrete surface 26 times in succession without impairing functionality.

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Waze iPhone GPS app uses crowd-sourcing for real time traffic

By Chris Davies on Friday, Aug 7th 2009 No Comments

Real-time crowd-sourcing navigation app Waze has cleared Apple’s App Store approval team and appeared for download, promising not only free turn-by-turn directions but peer-based traffic and road-condition updates. Waze relies on GPS and cell-tower triangulation from other users to determine traffic flow, with server-side processing of the best route for you to take.

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TomTom iPhone kit priced in UK

By Chris Davies on Thursday, Aug 6th 2009 No Comments

From one iPhone PND app to another: details of TomTom’s upcoming iPhone cradle and its pricing have emerged, courtesy of a premature listing on Handtec’s site. The accessory – first announced back at Apple’s WWDC in June – includes not only a windscreen mount but a charger, amplified speakers, hands-free kit and separate GPS dongle.

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CoPilot Live PND app for iPhone released in UK: one-off charge, no subscriptions

By Chris Davies on Thursday, Aug 6th 2009 No Comments

CoPilot have released their CoPilot Live navigation app for the iPhone, and unlike rival apps which require monthly subscriptions, it’s available for a one-off cost of £25.99 ($44). CoPilot Live includes landscape and portrait orientation modes, turn-by-turn directions, auto route-recalculation and 3D mapping, together with voice prompts.

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TeleNav GPS Navigator for T-Mobile myTouch 3G arrives August 5th

By Chris Davies on Tuesday, Aug 4th 2009 No Comments

TeleNav have announced that, like the G1, the T-Mobile myTouch 3G is next in line for its subscription-based turn-by-turn navigation app. Available to download from August 5th – complete with a 30-day free trial available from the company’s site, just to get you hooked – the software includes traffic/incident updates, automatic re-routes, POIs and gas prices, together with speech recognition for programming your destination and finding businesses.

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Garmin nuvi 1690 PND with integrated EDGE data clears FCC

By Chris Davies on Monday, Aug 3rd 2009 No Comments

A new Garmin PND , the nuvi 1690, has passed through the FCC [pdf link], and it seems to have learned some connectivity tricks from its nuvifone cousins. The nuvi 1690 includes not only Bluetooth but GSM/GPRS/EDGE connectivity, presumably offering real-time traffic downloads among other things.

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M&Soft Mappy API PND: 7-inch screen and digital TV

By Chris Davies on Thursday, Jul 30th 2009 No Comments

When you call your company M&Soft, we can’t help but wonder whether you’re looking to borrow a little big-player luster from Microsoft; however the Korean firm could feasibly stand on its own feet by making PND units with displays almost bigger than your car’s windshield. The M&Soft Mappy API may have a ridiculous name, but inside it’s a different story: as well as the SiRF v6 chipset there’s DMB digital TV and media playback.

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Creative Zii EGG Android “Stemcell Computing” developer device launched

By Chris Davies on Tuesday, Jul 28th 2009 No Comments

Creative have announced their Zii EGG developer platform, the test hardware for coders to get to grips with their freshly “Plaszma” branded Stemcell Computing system. The Zii EGG runs Google’s Android OS on top of Creative’s ZMS-05 chipset, and promises not only WiFi, Bluetooth 2.1+EDR and a 3.5-inch 320 x 480 10-point multitouch display, but 1080p video output, HD playback and OpenGL ES support.

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SiRFstarIV GPS receiver cuts fix times, reduces power

By Chris Davies on Tuesday, Jul 28th 2009 No Comments

sirfstariv gsd4t The latest SiRFstar chipset has broken free, and it’s promising increased accuracy, lower power consumption, faster fixes and better integration with other positioning sensors; in short, everything you’d hope for from what stands a fair chance of being stuffed inside your next PND, laptop or smartphone. The SiRFstar IV’s star feature is SiRFaware, its ability to maintain “better-than-hot-start” location awareness with only 50-500 microamperes of current.

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Pegatron Freescale netbook prototype shows up with Pre in tow

By Chris Davies on Monday, Jul 27th 2009 3 Comments

Pegatron have been showing off their Freescale-powered netbook prototype again, and if you’re wondering why there’s a Palm Pre perched on the end then it’s because the two share the same basic ARM Cortex A8 core architecture. In the unnamed netbook’s case, though, the Freescale iMX515 runs at 1GHz, and is capable of playing 720p video and running 3D games.

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