Posts Tagged ‘netbook’
Dell Mini 10 to Get GPS, Wi-Fi Location Tech
So you can get external GPS receivers for your laptop, and some are even coming configured with it onboard. GPS in phones, of course, is old hat. So what’s next? GPS-enabled netbooks – you know, these wee lil’ laptops that are all the rage — somewhere in between a notebook/laptop and an ultra mobile PC. PC maker Dell announced this week via its chief blogger — no, really — Lionel Menchaca, that it sees location-based services as a hit for the netbook market. As such, beginning next week in the United States it is going to roll out the Dell Wireless 700, a combination GPS and Wi-Fi positioning hardware/software module for its Mini 10 netbook.
Mio Bringing out GPS Netbooks, DTV Sat Navs
Mio Technology has luanched a series of new GPS gadgets at the Computex show in Taiwan this week. Among them are: the Moov V500 and V700 range of portable navigation devices (PNDs) — or sat navs, if you will — featuring built-in digital TV tuners, the Explora K75 and K70 GPS-enabled phones, and a series of GPS-enabled netbooks dubbed Lightpad.
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