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Video: Garmin Nuvi 205 ReviewOriginal at YouTube
• Thu, Jan 29
By rss@youtube.com (Reders160) my gps review. this paticular gps is just from point a to b this has no text to speech but this apparently has turn by turn voice promps the map has 2007 data even though it says (2009) but if your riding a bike or walking it's good, if your driving don't do it, but my advice would be to get it if your r...
Magellan Sends Its Eldest Child Into the iPhone Turn-By-Turn App War, Tearfully [IPhone Apps]
Original at Gizmodo
• Mon, Nov 16
By John Herrman In this war there are two battles: the polite, traditional fight between expensive, full-featured apps like Navigon and TomTom, and the I-will-undercut-you-if-it-means-killing-my-own-mother gorefest of the cheaper apps, like MotionX and Gokivo. With RoadMate, Magellan has tak...
Watch the XPERIA X10's Rachael Interface in Action [Android]Original at Gizmodo
• Tue, Nov 3
By Danny Allen • Bluetooth™ stereo (A2DP) • PlayNow™ • TrackID™ Web • Web feeds Messaging • Email Design • 3D games • YouTube™ Organiser • Calendar • A-GPS • Google Maps™ • Wisepilot™ turn-by-turn navigation* (free trial version) • Bluetooth™ technology • Wi-Fi™ • Gmail™ • Google Maps™ with Street View
Gizmodo's Essential iPhone Apps: October '09 Edition [IPhone Apps]
Original at Gizmodo
• Sat, Oct 31
By John Herrman MotionX GPS Drive: At $3 a month without any kind of long-term commitment, this is currently the cheapest decent turn-by-turn app in the App Store. And it works, pretty well! Until Google Navigation for Maps hits the iPhone, this'll be the cheapest, least-risky turn-by-turn option out t...
Google Navigator for Android Review: Good For Free But Far From Perfect [Review]
Original at Gizmodo
• Fri, Oct 30
By Wilson Rothman On Android 2.0, on the Verizon Wireless Motorola Droid I've been testing, Google navigation is part of the Car Home suite, an easy-to-read, easy-to-reach set of apps including map, turn-by-turn navigation, voice search, text search and contacts. However, as you can probably guess from...
This Week's 10 Best iPhone Apps [IPhone Apps]
Original at Gizmodo
• Fri, Oct 9
By John Herrman I am not going to tell you this is the best turn-by-turn road navigation app in the world. The designers made some funny UI choices, there's no multi-destination or point-on-map routing, it doesn't have text-to-speech, and it only runs in portrait mode, taking up awkward space on my dashb...
MotionX GPS Drive Review: Hands Down the Best Value In GPS Apps [IPhone Apps]
Original at Gizmodo
• Mon, Oct 5
By Wilson Rothman Fully functional spoken turn-by-turn navigation app with text-to-speech Navigation screen could show more relevant data, or be more customizable For more on iPhone GPS app, check out our iPhone Navigation Battlemodo Part 1 and Part 2.
Garmin nuvifone to cost $299?
Original at Gadgetell
• Tue, Sep 22
By JG Mason Garmin-Asus intend this phone to compete in the business sector where having GPS might be a huge benefit, or was a huge benefit when the phone was originally conceived by Garmin years ago. Since then, most other phones have built in GPS turn by turn directions and consumers seem to be adopt...
GPS Compass Could Make for the Grandest Treasure Hunt of All Time [Concepts]
Original at Gizmodo
• Wed, Sep 16
By Mark Wilson With this concept called the EMIL Experience Outdoors, you can plot your own points on a map and its integrated GPS, instead of providing lame turn-by-turn directions, gives you north, south east and west variants of the way there.
Magellan RoadMate 1700: 7-inch Screen, For When Size Matters [GPS]
Original at Gizmodo
• Wed, Aug 26
By Danny Allen More of that standard fare I touched upon includes preloaded maps of the U.S., Canada, and Puerto Rico, text-to-speech and turn-by-turn voice prompts, mini USB 2.0, a MicroSD card slot, and 6 million points of interest. It's up for pre-order ($300) at: [Best Buy and Tiger GPS via GPSReview]
TeleNav Turn-By-Turn Navigation Lands on the MyTouch 3G [Navigation]Original at Gizmodo
• Mon, Aug 3
By John Herrman SUNNYVALE, Calif. – August 4, 2009 – TeleNav announced today that TeleNav GPS Navigator will be one of the first turn-by-turn GPS navigation services available to run on the T-Mobile® myTouch™ 3G with Google. TeleNav GPS Navigator will be available for a free 30-day trial beginning tomor...
$700 for Nokia's new phone. Are they nuts?
Original at CNET News.com
• Tue, Jun 9
The Tech Herald CA It has GPS, AGPS and built in maps from Navtech. Plus of course Nokia have their own turn by turn voice navigation software. by tech_crazy June 9, 2009 4:23 PM PDT "Real" GPS works using triangulation with satellites. Cell phones usually do it with ...
spoton GPS Platform Enables LBS Ad Delivery
Original at GPS World magazine
• Tue, Jun 9
technocom Corporation has launched a mobile advertising and marketing content-delivery platform, spoton GPS, providing comprehensive turn-by-turn navigation, search, and mapping. A white-branded mobile platform (meaning a technocom customer can put its ...
iphone 3G S and the 'Uh Oh' Moment
Original at PC World
• Mon, Jun 8
Telegraph.co.uk No, I'm thinking of the people working in Garmin and tomtom's hardware divisions and Pure Digital, makers of the Flip pocket camcorders. While we iphone users can certainly celebrate functional GPS turn-by-turn navigation (with voice feedback, ...
TomTom set for tomtom GPS app and accessories
Original at MacNN
• Mon, Jun 8
CA While Apple announced a variety of new iphone apps at the WWDC event on Monday, one of the notable additions integrates tomtom navigation. The app will provide many of the same features as standalone GPS systems, such as turn-by-turn directions, ...
Apple iphone 3.0: Real tomtom GPS Navigation, Zipcar, And MoreOriginal at TheCarConnection.com
• Mon, Jun 8
tomtom: Finally, turn-by-turn navigation comes to the iphone. tomtom's software will arrive this summer, and will turn iphones into GPS devices. There will be spoken directions, and a new set of accessories that will suction-mount the phone to the ...
Apple Debuts Aggressively Priced iPhone 3GS, MacBooks
Original at Wired News
• Fri, Jun 5
TomTom showing their turn-by-turn GPS!” 11:24am Next up is TomTom. Portable navigation company. 11:22am ScrollMotion is on stage demoing its Iceberg store, where you can buy and download books and magazines. You can also copy text and e-mail it. ...
HTC Ozone spotted with Verizon branding and GPS support
Original at Mobile Burn
• Thu, Jun 4
Phones Review PA You can also clearly see the WiFi icon, as well as GPS, hinting that this smartphone might support Verizon's VZ Navigator service for voice-guided turn-by-turn navigation. [via Boy Genius Report] Oh, no! The Verizon Snap is the 'Ozone' WM Experts all 16 news articles
Electric Compass Announces Enterprise navigatort Turn-By-Turn GPS ... - Wireless Developer Network
Original at Wireless Developer Network
• Thu, Jun 4
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Google Latitude demonstrated on iPhone's Safari browser
Original at IntoMobile - Mobile Phone News and Reviews
• Mon, Jun 1
• 1 related articles
That basically means the next-generation iPhone OS will allow the web browser to determine the user's location, and use that information to update location-aware services like Google Latitude (and paves the way for turn-by-turn GPS navigation). ...
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LG ships first feature phone with off-board nav
Original at GPS Business
• Mon, Jun 1
Last week handset manufacturer LG Electronics shipped the LG GT505, its first feature phone to offer GPS and turn by turn navigation. “Mobile GPS-navigation services have previously been preserved for high end handsets segment”, said Daniel Hernandez, ...
NAVTEQ Selected by MetroPCS as Preferred Map Provider - PR Newswire
Original at sev.prnewswire.com
• Tue, May 19
MetroPCS has launched several end-user applications that use NAVTEQ(R) map data, including MetroNavigator, a GPS-enabled navigation application. MetroNavigator is a downloadable application that enables turn-by-turn driving directions, local search and ...
Share the Gift of Text and Touch With the LG Xenon From AT&T - PR Newswire
Original at sev.prnewswire.com
• Thu, May 14
PR Newswire (press release), NY New LG Xenon users receive a free 30 day trial of AT&T Navigator. Using GPS directly from the customer's wireless phone, AT&T Navigator provides audible and visual turn-by-turn driving directions, including full-color moving maps. ...
Review: TeleNav GPS for Android
Original at Geek.com
• Fri, Feb 20
• 1 related articles
This is where third parties who have experience in navigation solutions are coming in, and one such company is TeleNav. The TeleNav GPS for the G1 includes full-color, 3D, turn-by-turn GPS navigation, speech recognition, traffic alerts with one-click ...
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Wal-Mart leaks out full Black Friday deals
Original at Gadgetell
• Sun, Nov 23
By Natesh Sood Section: Video, HDTV, Computers, Desktops, Gadgets / Other, GPS/Navigation, Imaging, Camcorders, Digital Cameras Let’s talk about the Garmin Nuvi 200. It comes with a 3.5-inch touch screen, preloaded maps of the U.S., Hawaii, and Puerto Rico, 2D or 3D maps, and turn-by-turn voice guida...
Palm Treo Pro Is Official
Original at Pocket PC Thoughts
• Wed, Aug 20
By Darius Wey Palm Experience on Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional Integrated GPS -- Users can access maps, turn-by-turn directions and point-of-interest (POI) searches.(1) About Palm, Inc. More information about Palm, Inc. is available at http://www.palm.com.
Treo 800w Review for SprintOriginal at SlashGear
• Sun, Jul 13
By Vincent Nguyen It’s a shame, because the carrier services on offer - particularly Sprint Navigation, with turn-by-turn directions and searchable points of interest - are good, and unlimited EvDO Rev.A subscription relatively cheap. Sprint fought strongly in the contract price wars earlier this ye...
Sprint Instinct: Could this thing beat the iPhone?
Original at CrunchGear
• Tue, Apr 1
By John Biggs • Sprint Navigation, powered by Telenav, with GPS-enabled audio and visual turn-by-turn on-the-go, GPS-enabled directions, interactive maps and one-touch click to call access • Sprint TV® with an extensive selection of live and on-demand programming