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With all the hype around Google’s big announcement yesterday that they would be providing Android devices with free turn-by-turn directions, you’d think stand alone GPS companies should call it a day and pack up the office.  But we are missing something: nowhere does Google say anything about spoken turn-by-turn directions.… Continue Reading »

AT&T Navigator just updated to 1.3i for iPhone users and the update included more than just some bug fixes.  TeleNav, the company behind AT&T Navigator, updated the software with some substantial new features that make GPS navigation on your phone a much better experience.  The update addressed the looks, sounds… Continue Reading »

As we approach the holiday season, expect deals to become more frequent and enticing.  This weekend, we have deals on a portable LCD HDTV screen, Garmin GPS, a computer monitor, Garmin Forerunner watch, and a LG HDTV.  Continue Reading »

These days if you’re introducing a GPS, you’ve got to have a hook.  Satsports is bringing its Satsports GPS to North America and wants it to be the GPS for all sports.  It runs Windows CE 5.0, has an internal speaker, some built in memory with 256MB or storage, Micro… Continue Reading »

Apple quietly acquired Placebase, a mapping company that allows users to overlay maps with personal data.  With the recent fallout between Apple and Google, we’ve got to wonder if Apple is looking to depend less on Google for its mapping, one of the stock apps on the iPhone and iPod… Continue Reading »

It’s a cell phone - no, it’s a GPS unit!  Actually the new nuvifone from AT&T Wireless and Garmin are both of those things and more.  The unit integrates Garmin’s popular GPS service with voice, data, and web browsing services, all in a sleek 4.4 x 2.3’ package with a… Continue Reading »

Rumor has it now that the way-late-to-the-game, Garmin-Asus nuvifone will cost $299 on a two year contract or $599 with no commitment.  Since announcing the phone, Garmin has delayed it, taken on a partner, released the phone in Taiwan and it finally appears that the GPS phone will come to… Continue Reading »

Here comes the Magellan RoadMate 1700, the 7-inch touch screen WVGA GPS device.  With that giant touch screen, you’ll get Roadside Assistance, AAA TourBook, and maps of Canada, Puerto Rico, and the United States.  The RoadMate also has a video-in jack so you can connect whatever device you would like… Continue Reading »

Today, the Zune HD launched to very little fanfare.  Early in, Twitter was abuzz with talk of problems getting the thing to work out of the box.  This player was supposed to be the best Microsoft’s Zune unit could bring out and early pics on talk was that it could… Continue Reading »

As a frequent traveler, my focus has been to shed as much as I can.  Here are my secrets to traveling light with enough tech to keep even a short attention span tech blogger like me happy.  Maybe you can find something to help you or at the very least,… Continue Reading »