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If you live in India, you may have heard of the popular map supplier company, MapmyIndia. What this company does is they supply maps of India available for certain GPS units.

The Navigator is available in either the Delphi Nav 200 and the AMAX 06GP5A. The MapmyIndia Navigator sports a 3.5-inch touch screen, runs on a 400Mhz Samsung processor, maps have data of many streets, local shops, and landmarks in the 18+ major Indian cities. The Navigator is available with car accessories, consumer electronic dealers, and at MapmyIndia. It also comes with a few multimedia features and finds alternate routes when there is a lot of traffic, saving lots of time and gas.

It is only available in India and is set to cost somewhere between 21,000-22,000 Rupees ($472-$494).

Via [NaviGadget]

If your AT&T smartphone has a built-in GPS chip, then you’ll be pleased to know that AT&T has extended it’s Navigator to global coverage.

What this means is that AT&T Navigator Global Edition comes with voice turn-by-turn directions, or text turn-by-turn directions. Both of these come in different language settings including English, German, Italian, or Spanish.

In addition, coverage is now in 20 countries, which includes many in western Europe, North American, U.S. Caribbean, and six Chinese cities - Beijing, Shanghai, Qingdao, Shenyang, Tianjin and Qinhuangdao. The amazing thing about this service, when you think about it, is that you can get directions to so many places, all on your cell phone, many standalone GPS units support only a few more maps than this service.

Also, the Navigator Global Edition sports a business finder, basically, that searches business matches in the US and overseas countries in it’s 19 million plus business and service database. Phones that are capable of this service include AT&T Tilt, BlackBerry 8800, BlackBerry 8820, BlackBerry Curve 8310, BlackBerry Pearl 8110, BlackJack II and MOTO Q9h.

The service costs $19.98, but it’s probably something worth getting if you travel a lot and don’t already have a stand-alone GPS.

Via [IntoMobile]

Customers in Florida will now have access to information about traffic incidents, traffic updates and detours as Verizon Wireless has made its VZ Navigator Version 4 service available. The VZ Navigator is a location-based service (LBS) application utilizing GPS technology and real-time information feeds from government traffic monitoring groups.

With VZ Navigator, customers will have access to traffic integration information which updates them of traffic routes based on the analysis of both historical and real-time traffic information. This allows customers to know which traffic routes are affected by traffic lights, heavy traffic situation and activities in school zones. VZ Navigator also gives out information on location of gas stations closest to customers location and even includes gas pricing. So customers can plan in advance whether to stop by the nearest one or skip it and stop by the next station. Of course, like some GPS navigation services, VZ Navigator also provides turn-by-turn directions on how to get to the nearest identified gas station.

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The FCC has just approved the Nokia 6210 navigator, which is the follow up to the 6110 navigator that was released not so long ago. As such, the 6210 bears much resemblance to its predecessor in terms of features and functionality, after all that’s how Nokia has always been when it comes to updating most of their mobile phone series.

The 6210’s features which are mostly similar to the 6110 an include a built-in GPS with A-GPS, 3G, Wi-Fi and voice-activated controls. But that is not to say the Nokia 6210 is a mere copy-cat of the 6110, it also has some nice new features of its own. For one, the 6210 is equipped with an improved 3.2-megapixel camera and it now runs on the Symbian Series 60 OS. In addition, we could also see a dual-LED flash near the 6210’s camera lens.

Is that all? We’re afraid so, yes. But we expect to know more new features as Nokia preps to release the 6210 sometime in the third quarter of this year. With a tentative retail price of $430, we certainly deserve to get more great features than a 3.2-megapixel camera, right?

Read [FCC] Via [IntoMobile]

Netscape first announced that they were ending support for the Netscape browser as of February 1, 2008. With that date almost upon us, it has been given a slight reprieve, the browser will live on for one more month. The official support will now remain until March 1, 2008 and Netscape has also plans to release an update for Navigator 9 that will help users with the switch over. In the meantime Netscape is also recommending the Flock browser in addition to Firefox. 

Read [CNET]