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| Blackberry Curve 8310: That James Bond Feeling
| The Blackberry and the Telenav software complement each other to form a sleek combination of easy-to-use features. The large screen of the Curve provides an automobile-PND-like experience, and the Telenav maps provide door-to-door directions in an easy-to-read format. | | | The Bushnell ONIX 400: A Backcountry Beauty
| | This is a product that really impressed me. The brainchild of Phil Gyori and Jason Luzar from Bushnell, the ONIX 400 is a second-generation Bushnell attempt at getting GPS right, and it succeeded. | | | Pharos 140: The Swiss Army Knife of GPS Receivers
| | The Pharos 140 is the Swiss Army Knife of GPS systems because it has a variety of tools that make it more than just a GPS receiver. When used as a GPS receiver, the large 4 inch screen and highly accurate 20-channel SiRFstarIII GPS engine will get you through the concrete jungle as well as any experienced guide. When navigation is not your goal, the Pharos is a veritable entertainment and communication center. | | | Navigon 7100: Getting Around Traffic in Style
| | Out of the box the Navigon 7100 vehicle GPS receiver impresses you with its sleek euro-style design and large 4.3 inch widescreen color display. The styling alone should move a large number of these beauties off shelves and onto dashboards. Even the car mount looks sleek. But the great looks are not the best part of the receiver. The best part is the free, life-time traffic alerts available in about 65 metro regions across the U.S. | | | Garmin Forerunner 305: Like having "Ahnold" along for a run
| | The Garmin Forerunner 305 is the next best thing to having "Ahnold" as your fitness coach. You can load performance data into it and compete against yourself as you run or cycle. Set-up is ultra-fast: Open up, charge it, turn it on, use it. Simple as that. | | | Magellan eXplorist 600: Light, Compact and Ready for Hiking
| | The Magellan eXplorist 600 fairly screams "take me hiking!" It?s lightweight, compact, has plenty of memory for topographical maps, and features an electronic compass, altimeter and battery life of 17 hours. And it all fits comfortably in the palm of your hand. | | | TomTom´s GO910: Packed with plenty of cool features
| | In my opinion, Europeans have a great sense of humor. Remember Monty Python? With the Euro-rooted TomTom GO910, I wasn´t disappointed. I unpacked it, cranked it up and started laughing when Mr. T started barking directions at me. Yes, that´s Mr. T from the old "A Team" days. I found it fascinating how many different voices (50+) and languages (36) were offered on the GO910. | | |
Garmin GPSmap 60CSx: Is this the ultimate handheld?
| | If you primarily use a handheld GPS receiver in the outdoors but occasionally use it in the car, this is the receiver to own. The GPSmap 60CSx has all the features of a high-end outdoor handheld, plus those found in a car navigation system to boot. The only hitch for auto use is that the screen size makes it hard to see both the screen and the road, so have the passenger navigate. | | | DeLorme PN-20: Five little ounces of mapping excellence
| | In the age of hot personal navigation devices (PNDs), the PN-20 is a different breed. It wasn´t designed to be a PND. In fact, I wouldn´t call it a PND, but rather a traditional, hand-held mapping unit like a Garmin Etrex, 60Cx or Magellan eXplorist. Being a mapping guy myself, it really caters to the needs of people like me. | |  MORE ARTICLES
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| ... And then it got complicated
| | GPS Maniac puts on its thinking cap--scary as that might be, but then it is Halloween--and breaks down what the Garmin/TomTom tug-o'-war over map supplier Tele Atlas means for us consumers of GPS gizmos and related services. | | | Blastoff! Latest GPS bird flies into orbit
| | The latest GPS Block IIR satellite, designated GPS IIR-17M, lifted off successfully from Cape Canaveral down in Florida. The launch brings us one satellite closer to significantly improved accuracy for civilian satellite navigation. | | | And then there were ...
| | ... not many. End users of GPS gizmos probably won't notice any difference in the immediate future. But with Tele Atlas going to TomTom and Navteq going to Nokia, what does this mean for digital mapping and PNDs in the long run? | | | Will GPS lead to robot cars?
| | The Stanford University professor who, along with his students, successfully created a self-controlled car discusses the next step, and what might happen if we could get GPS accuracy down from a couple of meters to a couple of centimeters. | | | No bumps in GPS ground control upgrade
| | Ground control to Major Tom: the upgrade went off without a hitch; no dead circuits here. The U.S. Air Force tells us that the migration from the old '70s-era mainframe computer to the new mod server-based system went as planned. | | | Selective Availability goes bye bye
| | While the intentional degradation of the civil GPS signal has been turned off since 2000, the White House said today it's doing away with it for good. So it will be good to know we won't have to sweat the possibility of SA coming back in the future. | | | TomTom for ToyToyota buyers
| | Now you can get the best of both navigation worlds from the dealer. We've seen after-market car stereo systems that feature integrated portable navigation devices, now Toyota offers the option on the new Yaris, its entry-level vehicle. | | | Sprint sprinting ahead in LBS?
| | Location-based services offered through GPS-enabled phones are just getting started; it's been a particularly slow market to develop in the U.S. But market researchers believe it is poised to bloom, and Sprint has brought the watering can and fertilizer, one analysis suggests. | | | GPS: ready for its closeup, Mr. DeMille
| | Run! Run for your lives! But DON'T GO TO THOSE COORDINATES! GPS technology and geocaching gets a starring role in the indie thriller flick GPS: The Movie. Next thing you know GPS will be partying on Sunset Boulevard with Paris Hilton. | | | MORE ARTICLES
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| Sprint, Microsoft offer integrated search
| | Sprint and Microsoft say they are mashing up location-based searches and Internet searches--and throwing in voice-activated searches to boot. And it won't cost you a dime, as long as you already have a cellular data plan. But it still sounds pretty cool. | | | Selective Availability goes bye bye
| | While the intentional degradation of the civil GPS signal has been turned off since 2000, the White House said today it's doing away with it for good. So it will be good to know we won't have to sweat the possibility of SA coming back in the future. | | | Siemens Brings DTV to Euro PND
| | Now you can watch digital broadcast television in all of its resplendent 16:9 glory on your personal navigation device, thanks to Europe's Siemens VDO. But does it have karaoke? Germany still has some catching up to do with regard to South Korea. | | | Dash is coming in early '08
| | Startup Dash Navigation says its much-anticipated navigation will go on sale in the first few months of 2008. The Dash is bringing full-time connectivity with GPRS and Wi Fi, promising automatic updates and real-time traffic info. | | | Navman unveils new PND product line
| | Amazon ... er, Navman this week took the wraps off a brand new line of slim PNDs. The S series of Navman devices are not only a step up in terms of design; they have several leading-edge features, such as spoken street names and Bluetooth. | | | GPS foils bank robbery
| | GPS: defender of truth, justice and the American way. Wait, that is Superman. But GPS tech did foil some Midwestern bank robbers this morning. Well, the cops did, actually, but GPS played its part to nab the metaphorically red-handed crooks. | | | New ViaMichelin PND headed to U.S.?
| | French PND maker ViaMichelin, which rolled out its latest series of navigation products in Europe last spring, just got FCC approval for one of the devices here in the United States. But that's no guarantee it will show up on U.S. store shelves. | | | Asus debuts laptop with embedded GPS
| | Taiwanese PC maker Asus unveils a laptop with GPS inside. Notably, the company decided to go with software-based GPS signal processing from NXP, to forgo the need for GPS baseband hardware. | | | Military tech for civilians
| | Rockwell Collins is making its military grade handheld GPS units and embedded receivers available for civilian use. Other than the lack of military-grade accuracy, the rest of the rugged specs are the same, and the Tim Allens of the world drool as a result. | | | MORE ARTICLES
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| Finding more than you bargained for
| | Sometimes you find something other than the cache you were looking for while out in the back o' beyond geocaching. Usually it's just junk, but sometimes it can be something more macabre, as some 'cachers discovered in Virginia recently. | | | It's that time of year
| | Next week is Earth Science Week, which means next Sunday is EarthCache Day. A natural variation on geocaching--literally natural--earthcaches may have coordinates determined by people, but the treasure that 'cachers find comes courtesy of Mother Nature. | | | 'Cachers help restore Mt. Rainier trails
| | Geocaching may not be permissible on U.S. National Park grounds, despite that it is low-impact use, particularly compared to some other activities we could mention that are allowed. That doesn't keep Washington State geocachers from answering the call for park volunteers. | | | Finding lessons for life in geocaching
| | Want to convince the muggle in your life to try geocaching? Need to learn more about it yourself? Give this book a read--it is endorsed by none other than Monkeywoman herself and one of the founders of Geocaching.com. 'nuff said right there. | | | There's something about geocaching
| | There's not much you can be doing in a public park at 1 a.m. that can attract the long arm of the law and not get you in trouble. Geocaching is one of them. But that's only one aspect of this intersection of technology with the outdoors. | | | 'Cache a moose on Monday
| | Several Colorado state parks feature geocaching; in some places you can do it year around if your winter holidays involve snow and backwoods. But next Monday you can go play without paying any park entry fees. | | | Geocaching: GPS tech as learning tool
| | Notebook? Check. Folders? Check. Lock for locker? Check. Backpack to carry books? Check. Apple for teacher? Check. GPS handheld? Check. Educators are turning to GPS technology to teach kids geography and science. | | | Geocaching: good and good for you, eh?
| | A lot of Americans these days seem hip to the Canadian health care system. We just assumed it was the cheap prescription meds, but now we think it must be because the Canucks are hip to geocaching. | | | Trash out your geocache
| | Like geocaching? Like helping save the world? Like to be efficient and do two things at once? Take a look at Cache In Trash Out, find an event near you, and you can do just that: cache and help the planet. | | | MORE ARTICLES
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| TomTom unveils cell-based traffic data service
| | TomTom and Vodaphone are introducing a GSM-based traffic data service: traffic updates culled from mobile phone users' positioning data. The service is debuting in TomTom's home turf in the Netherlands, with a U.K. rollout planned for 2008. | | | Trimble Outdoors comes to BlackBerry
| | Trimble Outdoors expanded the availability of its software for playing outside with GPS-enabled mobile phones, this time to the ubiquitous BlackBerry. Allsport GPS, Geoache Navigator and Trimble Otdoors are now available for the 8800, 8820 and Curve 8310. | | | Sharper Image gets into the PND biz
| | One of the more notable names in interesting gadgets--it's been around long before there was a consumer electronics market--is coming out with its own navigation gizmos. Soon you'll be able to buy a set of stake knives, a Roomba and a PND, all from the same place. | | | HTC offers a Touch of GPS
| | The latest model in HTC's Touch series of touchscreen smartphones--Windows Mobile-based rivals to the iPhone and Symbian based smartphones--dubbed the Cruise, features GPS built in. It also has Bluetooth, Wi Fi, 3G data connectivity, Quad-band GSM, FM radio, kitchen sink, etc. | | | Yellowstone gorges on magma
| | GPS and other satellite technologies enable University of Utah researchers to keep tabs on the giant volcanic crater at the heart of Yellowstone National Park, and find that it is growing at an unprecedented rate since 2004. | | | Pharos Drive 150, 250 on the way
| | Pharos unveils two more dedicated PNDs for its product lineup, the Drive GPS 150 and 250. Both feature text-to-speech directions including street names, as well as SiRFstarIII receivers, and come pre-loaded with maps on flash memory cards. | | | Finding more than you bargained for
| | Sometimes you find something other than the cache you were looking for while out in the back o' beyond geocaching. Usually it's just junk, but sometimes it can be something more macabre, as some 'cachers discovered in Virginia recently. | | | Blaupunkt's Lucca comes a-round
| | Cool is as cool does--the Blaupunkt TravelPilot Lucca 3.5 comes in a round edition--round as in circular. It's also got some impressive hardware under the hood, and if you live in Europe, you can get your hands around one later this month. | | | DeLorme Bundles Maps, PN-20
| | Map maker DeLorme also makes GPS handhelds, and pretty good ones at that. Now you can get a deal on a bunch o' maps — road, topo, nautical, take your pick — bundled with the company's rugged handheld, the PN-20. It's a device that our own reviewer digs, as do many others | | | MORE ARTICLES
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| Trimble Outdoors comes to BlackBerry
| | Trimble Outdoors expanded the availability of its software for playing outside with GPS-enabled mobile phones, this time to the ubiquitous BlackBerry. Allsport GPS, Geoache Navigator and Trimble Otdoors are now available for the 8800, 8820 and Curve 8310. | | | TomTom unveils cell-based traffic data service
| | TomTom and Vodaphone are introducing a GSM-based traffic data service: traffic updates culled from mobile phone users' positioning data. The service is debuting in TomTom's home turf in the Netherlands, with a U.K. rollout planned for 2008. | | | Gphone revealed: it's an Android
| | Calm down, we're not talking about a Google-gadget, at least not a physical one. Google is working with a bunch of technology companies in the Open Handset Alliance to offer an open-source platform for mobile phones, including an operating system dubbed Android. | | | Garmin Gets Robert Frosty with Mad Maps
| | Are you one of those who, when faced with a fork in the road, take the one less traveled by, the one that's "grassy and wanted wear?" Now Garmin says it can help you out, as it offers Mad Maps in digital form for its Zumo and Nuvi PNDs. | | | Feeling piste? Rent Satski, hit the slopes
| | Meant to hit the bunny slope and ended up on careening down the double black diamond? Ready to try again now that you're out of the cast and done with rehab? Maybe you should rent a Satski GPS device next time out on slopes. | | | Palm offers Garmin Mobile XT bundle
| | Want to turn your Palm Treo into a PND? The company is offering a new version of its GPS Navigator package, which includes a GPS receiver and Garmin's Mobile XT software, designed specifically for handheld devices. | | | Locr locates Windows Mobile geotags
| | Geotagging software maker and photo Web site host has unveiled a version of its geotagging software for Windows Mobile devices, locr GPS Photo for Windows Mobile 1.0 beta. Like the Web site's photo hosting/tagging service, the download is free too. | | | Herold Wisepilot debuts with mobilkom
| | Mobilkom austria wireless subscribers will soon have some whiz-bang navigation software for their GPS phones, courtesy of Appello, which is debuting a new version of its Wisepilot software, Herold Wisepilot. Why not Ralph or Steve Wisepilot? Read on ... | | | Britain's Blue Tree lays down KoolTrax
| | That's right! Order now and get all your favorite hits in this two-disc set!--no, no, no. KoolTrax isn't the latest greatest hits compilation on vinyl from K-tel; it's Blue Tree's new GPS tracking software. | | | MORE ARTICLES
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| Korean nav unit can record your goof-up
| | The latest, greatest mouth-watering PND from Korea has, among its myriad features and ginormous LCD, a black-box function that will record video data in the event of an accident, its maker says. | | | Sanyo Navigates Easy Street
| | Sanyo says it can get you to Easy Street--literally, if not figuratively--with its new wide-screen PNDs, the Easy Street NVM 4050 and 4070: Bluetooth, MP3, all sorts of neat stuff--and GPS too. | | | GlobalSat rolls out GPS goodies
| | The Taiwanese maker of GPS electronics officially takes the wraps off a GPS data logger, a Bluetooth-enabled GPS receiver, and a combo heart-rate monitor and GPS-enabled sports watch. | | | Netropa Details Intellinav 2 & 3
| | A week after the company says four new versions of its Intellinav PND are coming this year, it provides some color on two of those units, including technical specs and suggested prices. | | | Navigon PNDs arrive sooner
| | Last we heard from Navigon the company was planning to put its personal navigation devices on store shelves in August; now it says you should be able to lay hands on them sometime this month. | | | Polar Enters GPS Fray
| | The Finnish electronics company that is one of the pioneers of the heart rate monitor for the consumer/fitness market, is adding a GPS sensor to its stable of fitness products, joining the likes of Garmin and Suunto. | | | New Intellinavs Coming Soon
| | Just when, other than sometime this year, we can't say. But it promises four new versions, including two with 4.3-inch wide screens, and new features such as "fatigue alarm" and "fog assist." | | | Sanyo Debuts DTV Nav Unit
| | Sanyo debuts an in-dash navigation unit in its home Japanese market with a phat seven-inch screen and digital broadcast television reception. No time to watch? Just burn your show to a disk in your dash. | | | Navigon still poised for August debut
| | Even though the road rally that was to herald Navigon's entrance into the North American PND market didn't come off last month, the company still plans to begin shipping units by the end of the summer. | |
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| Yellowstone gorges on magma
| | GPS and other satellite technologies enable University of Utah researchers to keep tabs on the giant volcanic crater at the heart of Yellowstone National Park, and find that it is growing at an unprecedented rate since 2004. | | | Carnegie Mellon wins Urban Challenge
| | GPS, digital cameras, laser-based sensor and the software that ties them all together are bringing the robotic car from science fiction to science fact, as DARPA's Urban Challenge competitors proved this past weekend in California. | | | Yo chief! Come visit da Joisey shoah!
| | Nearly everyone's got a GPS unit in their car these days, or at least knows someone who does. The Garden State is banking on that with its new GPS-themed advertising campaign to encourage visitors to take a trip down the The Turnpike. | | | And GPS shall set them free ... maybe
| | Hoping to follow in the successful footsteps of accused Aussie speeders, a California teen and his stepfather are offering up GPS track logs as evidence that the kid wasn't speeding when a police officer's radar gun said he was. | | | D'oh! GPS foils crime once again
| | A Cincinnati suspect fleeing from Johnny Law demonstrates that climbing a tree won't hide you from the electric eye in the sky. And in his offer up the first of what will likely be many GPS Maniac D'oh! Awards to our free-soloing tree climber. | | | Congo pygmies mark turf with GPS
| | We're pretty jaded, but this story warmed the cockles of even our hardened hearts. It seems a logging company is working with an ecology-minded group and Congo pygmies to lessen the impact of logging on the pygmies' way of life. | | | Farmer uses GPS to pop the question
| | Planning on surprising your sweetie with an engagement ring in a geocache? Yawn ... anybody can do that. But a Canadian farmer used GPS and his tractor/cultivator to up the ante and carve out a 500 meter by 300 meter marriage proposal. | | | QVC peeps love them Garmin Nuvis
| | The television shopping network sold some 51,000 Garmin Nuvi 250W units in a 16-hour period. Now impulse buyers across the nation will be able to easier find their way to retail outlets with their new PNDs--everybody wins. | | | Braintree GPS thieves anything but brainy
| | If you're going to run around a neighborhood repeatedly stealing GPS units out of cars, and get caught by the cops with a GPS unit on the dash and a bunch more in the car besides--think of a better excuse for your presence than "we're lost." | | | MORE ARTICLES
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| Sharper Image gets into the PND biz
| | One of the more notable names in interesting gadgets--it's been around long before there was a consumer electronics market--is coming out with its own navigation gizmos. Soon you'll be able to buy a set of stake knives, a Roomba and a PND, all from the same place. | | | HTC offers a Touch of GPS
| | The latest model in HTC's Touch series of touchscreen smartphones--Windows Mobile-based rivals to the iPhone and Symbian based smartphones--dubbed the Cruise, features GPS built in. It also has Bluetooth, Wi Fi, 3G data connectivity, Quad-band GSM, FM radio, kitchen sink, etc. | | | Pharos Drive 150, 250 on the way
| | Pharos unveils two more dedicated PNDs for its product lineup, the Drive GPS 150 and 250. Both feature text-to-speech directions including street names, as well as SiRFstarIII receivers, and come pre-loaded with maps on flash memory cards. | | | Blaupunkt's Lucca comes a-round
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| Cool is as cool does--the Blaupunkt TravelPilot Lucca 3.5 comes in a round edition--round as in circular. It's also got some impressive hardware under the hood, and if you live in Europe, you can get your hands around one later this month. | | | DeLorme Bundles Maps, PN-20
| | Map maker DeLorme also makes GPS handhelds, and pretty good ones at that. Now you can get a deal on a bunch o' maps — road, topo, nautical, take your pick — bundled with the company's rugged handheld, the PN-20. It's a device that our own reviewer digs, as do many others | | | Gadget Update: Lowrance XOG, Globalcom's Spot
| | We've got some firm pricing information on the XOG, which Lowrance promises will be on store shelves in time for the holidays; we also hear that Globalcom's Spot is now on store shelves following its introduction last summer. | | | Coolnavi offers cool Korean tech
| | Now you can lay your hands on a mouth-watering Korean navigation unit complete with all sorts of ports and multimedia capabilities handled through a seven-inch LCD. The Coolnavi700 also features SiRFstarIII silicon. | | | New V7's: impressive specs, cheap price
| | Ingram Micro's V7 line rolls out two new PNDs with WAAS-enabled SiRFstarIII receivers, text-to-speech nav directions, including street names and audio and video playback--nice. The 4.3-inch version retails for $299; the 3.5-inch version retails for $199--very nice. | |
| Harman Kardon expands PND Lineup
| | Following the introductions of its first PNDs in North America and Europe earlier this year, the audio electronics company expands its GPS lineup to five, introducing multimedia and spoken street names in its latest models. | | | MORE ARTICLES
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