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“Keep Left, and You’ll Be Bona Fide!” TomTom Turns to Snoop Dogg, the Original GPS Gangsta
If there was ever a reason to buy a TomTom portable navigation device, this is it. Even if you have the latest greatest smartphone — say, the Motorola Droid on Verizon, with Android 2.0 and Google Maps Navigation — you still may want to buy a TomTom. Even if you have the TomTom iPhone app and car kit, you may want to buy a TomTom PND. Heck I may even buy one myself now. Why? Because Cordazar Calvin Broadus, aka Snoop Dogg, the recording artist that brought us such timeless classics as “Gin and Juice” and “The Shiznit” has loaned — dare I say, pimped out — his voice to TomTom.
Magellan Makes it Official: iPhone App Available Now, Related GPS Car Kit on the Way
Here’s an interesting thing: while Garmin is pushing its Nuvifone, rival Magellan has just announced a navigation app for the iPhone, along with a forthcoming car kit. The RoadMate app with turn-by-turn navigation and spoken street names is available now for a cool $79.99; the vehicle mounting cradle — which includes its own GPS reciever — for the iPhone and iPod touch will be available in December for $129.99, Magellan says. The car kit cradle also features its own speaker and Bluetooth.
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From the Cessna to the Subaru: Garmin Unveils the Aera-Series PNDs for Civil Aviators
Ever wish you had a PND that could go from your airplane to your car? Okay, not everyone owns their own plane, but if you’re an aviator with your own wings, Garmin has rolled out its Aera series (still officially spelled with a lower-case a, but at least there are no umlauts), which can go from plane to automobile with the touch of a button, it says. This isn’t a new area for Garmin, which for years has made marine and aviation GPS navigation units, as well as handhelds and automotive PNDs for your; rather it seems an obvious evolution for consumer navigation electronics.
An Android-Based Mio On the Way? Don’t Believe Everything You Read on the Vast Series of Tubes
“But it must be true; I read it on the Internet.” Make no mistake, for those of us who remember the pre-Internet days of journalism, this kind of thing provides no end of amusement. For the past week or so, the gadget sector of the blogosphere has been awash with stories about Mio producing an Android-based mobile Internet navigation device dubbed MiBuddy. Android, of course, is a kind of a big deal right now, and the fact that Mio would produce a device built around it when all of its previous PNDs have been built around Windows CE would only serve to lend more momentum and credence to Android — if it were true. A U.K.-based gadget blog today said its all hogwash, however, citing a statement from Mio’s corporate parent, Mitac (and not just some other blog); Mitac’s original MiBuddy-related press release further clarifies things.
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