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Nokia shipping N810 to US finally

James Allan Brady, Nov 20th 2007 Discuss [5]

You can finally get an N810 shipped to your house direct from Nokia. In case you’ve forgotten, this thing puts UMPC’s, several laptops, any PMP I’ve seen, and navigations units all to shame at once. It comes with GPS, WiFi, Bluetooth, a touchscreen, an onscreen keyboard, a slide out keyboard, 2GB of storage, a SD card slot to add up to 8GB of more storage, and maps, Mozilla with flash support, and several other apps all built in. The best part is the price point. Read The Full Story

World Premiere of TomTom’s new TomTom HD Traffic

James Allan Brady, Nov 12th 2007 Discuss [0]

Yeah, it says world premiere, but they only have a deal with Vodafone to collect the necessary GSM signals to calculate the traffic in an area. So, it looks like you can buy it anywhere, but only use it where there is Vodafone service. The service will initially only be available in the Netherlands, and will offer external routes, that according to the data collected, should be faster. The first device to be blessed with the new HD Traffic tech will be the TomTom ONE XL HD Traffice, which is exactly like the ONE XL, but add a SIM card to get the traffic data with. Read The Full Story

Pharos Drive 250 navigation unit

James Allan Brady, Nov 9th 2007 Discuss [0]

It has a 4.3-inch touchscreen and a rechargeable Li-Ion battery that will net you 7 hours of use. That plus a decent GPS chipset is a pretty good start to a decent GPS navigation solution. There is also a text-to-speech feature that will pronounce the street names for you, giving you even less reason to wreck while attempting to drive and look at the GPS. This unit uses Navteq maps which covers all of the US and Canada and has 1.2 million points of interest programmed in. All that data fits onto a 1GB SD card too. Read The Full Story

Magellan RoadMate 1200

James Allan Brady, Nov 6th 2007 Discuss [0]

It has a 3.5-inch touchscreen and the top of the line SiRF Star III GPS chipset. There is also a rechargeable battery and maps pre-programmed for the all the US except Alaska and Puerto Rico. Its thin too, thinner than the Maestro 3200. I have to admit, I didn’t know thickness was an issue with GPS units, I mean last I looked TomTom GPS units were one of the top selling units around and they are fat as hell compared to most other navigation units. Read The Full Story

Wayfinder digital compass

James Allan Brady, Oct 31st 2007 Discuss [0]

Sure, you could buy one of these and pretend like you know something about following directions and using a compass, or you could just quit playing macho and go buy something with GPS and a touchscreen. No seriously, how many of you out there actually know what a compass is let alone how to use one? I learned, thanks to the BSA, I am pretty sure it’s a requirement along the way to getting your Eagle Scout, but after I learned how to use a map and compass and other markers to find my way if I ever got lost, I started realizing how few other people know how to. With this day and age of everything even my iPod Touch (thanks to some hacking) having maps, and more devices every day, including my Helio, having GPS, its only gotten worse. Read The Full Story

XRoad V4050 dropping stateside

James Allan Brady, Oct 26th 2007 Discuss [0]

Well this is a pretty amazing GPS unit, but is really dependent on price, especially after Nokia released the N810 with integrated GPS. This unit has a 4.3-inch touchscreen and a SiRF Star III chipset, which is as good as it gets in the consumer market. On top of that, there is an SD card slot and a multimedia app that supports MP3, MPEG-4, and JPG files. That’s not a bad list of features, but again, compared to the N810, price will be the major selling point. Read The Full Story

Audi Concept Device looks like a move from the James Bond playbook

James Allan Brady, Oct 21st 2007 Discuss [0]

The very same auto manufacturers you are thinking of are the ones working on a concept device that nearly does it all. It starts with an MP3 player and then adds on Wi-Fi, 3G via UMTS, and so much more. It doubles as a cellular phone too, thus the addition of the 3G connectivity. It also does navigation, controls the functions of your Audi, and so much more. Read The Full Story

Clarion MAX973HD

James Allan Brady, Oct 11th 2007 Discuss [0]

Clarion, proof that all it does take to make it in any business is to continually make the best products available, this unit is no different. Where most units that offer touch screen navigation and also have a DVD drive use that DVD drive for navigation, this one doesn’t, which is a good thing. Now you might wonder why it would matter if you used a DVD for navigation or not when you only have one screen, well that’s just it, you can add extra monitors to this thing and display two different things from the main screen to the auxiliary ones. So you can navigate your way through hectic traffic while the kids(or chicks, whatever your motivation) in the back watch a DVD all from the same head unit. Read The Full Story