Here’s another Korea-only personal navigation device that brings you the most bang for every buck you spend on it. Not only is it a video and audio player, it also has T-DMB and a Sirf III GPS antenna. It even has a built-in phone charger. Most interesting is the onboard alcohol sensor, a personal breathalyzer for drivers to avoid the one carried by the police. How much for this wonder gadget? Just $300.

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Wondering whether Nokia was serious about navigation? TalkAboutNSeries has several unboxing photos for us and a short review. What you need to know about the Nokia 500 GPS system:

• 4.3-inch touch screen
• Fm transmitter
• Bluetooth
• comes with SD card with maps of Europe (depending on your geographical area)
• car mount
• loud speaker, mic, 3.5mm jack

Also embedded a hands-on video demo of the Nokia 500 after the break.
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This is the most unique looking PMP-GPS I’ve seen and cheap, too, selling for only 699 yuan ($102). The CDT GPS + MP4 has a 3-inch touch screen and gives users the full complement of multimedia support: video, music, games and text. There’s too much left for the imagination, and even the model name is unknown.

Odd that this one is especially made for in-hand use. Consider the built-in hand-grips and this photo of the rear:

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Reviewed:
–Test carried out under the 605 firmware version 2.0.10.
– Archos GPS Version 7.50407 Archos GPS Version 7.50407
– Map Version : 7.54 Map Version: 7.54

Read full review at archoslounge

Not sure if Garmin did decide to make a white Nuvifone (photo below). At any rate, I’d prefer this phone in black. A better picture comes to us by way of Laptop Magazine via Gizmodo. As expected, the 3.5-inch touch screen is crisp and UI a refreshing departure from iPhone’s sophisticated icon-based home screen. The Nuvifone is kinda pricey, which makes us sad to note it may never see much actual usage by the public. At $500 and a 2-year AT&T contract is a tough sell when you have a better phone from the same provider at a third of the price. The added HSDPA of the NuviPhone, I’m afraid, just ain’t worth the extra 300 bucks.

Watch the tempting video demo. We know it’s overpriced based on the current pricing paradigm (read: “$199 iPhone”), but the UI just takes you away.

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Mio has several new products for launch, all pushing the boundaries of convergence. The most interesting though is the unnamed PND + Camera. It’s not a phone, just a GPS personal navigator with a 3.5-inch touch screen and a big camera lens with optical zoom. No more detail is available for now but if you’re anything like me, I’d love to hear that it plays movies (e.g. DivX, XviD, FLV, MPEG, etc.) and music. E-book support wouldn’t hurt as well.

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Garmin’s GPS touchscreen phone (Nuviphone) will be available very soon and before it officially comes out, tech-savvy readers were surveyed regarding the phone’s pricing and data plan. An Engadget reader was one of the lucky few who got surveyed and too a snapshot from the survey.

The question: “Now, how likely would you be to buy the Garmin nüvifone (for yourself or as a gift) if offered by AT&T for $499.99 with a two year contract? You would be required to have both a data plan that would include unlimited Internet browsing and unlimited Navigation for $19.99 per month and one of the standard voice rate plans for a monthly fee.”

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Mapping on Nokia phones has just improved with the introduction of Real Time Traffic or RTT to the Nokia Maps service. This is a premium add-on to Nokia Maps 2.0. With the increasing convergence of mobile devices, especially in devices under the Nokia branding, the new development puts personal navigation devices or PNDs at risk of being obsolete in the near future.

“By adding RTTI, Nokia can save precious time for drivers by alerting them of traffic, construction or other road hazards that could affect their journey. When Nokia Maps receives the road updates from ARC Transistance, the application can dynamicly re-route during navigation and provide a faster route.”

The service will be available in 16 countries and Nokia will be partnering with ARC Transistance.

Nokia Maps 2.0 is still in beta, available on this link.

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Remember Charbax? If you’re a long-time fan of this site, you’ll definitely remember our video journalist for CeBIT 2007.

Charbax just got the new firmware for GPS capability on his Archos 605. The GPS function on his Archos 605 demo is fully dependent on WiFi connectivity. The user interface on the navigation software is pretty good and if should be a pleasure to use with a GPS receiver in your car. It’s a real navigator, too, which you can use to plan your journey. For use with an In-Car Holder, the Archos 605 will be powered by a Sirf 3 GPS receiver

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