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Garmin Nuvifone for $499.99

1. May 2008

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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 [...]

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Nokia Maps 2.0 Adds Real Time Traffic Information (RTTI)

29. April 2008

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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 [...]

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Archos GPS via WiFi Review: a Charbax Special

25. April 2008

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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 [...]

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Archos + GPS, TVPortation, Web TV, Internet Radio and so much more

22. April 2008

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  Archos Gen5 PMPs just got better, way better. With several press releases, the French PMP manufacturer has made available GPS feature on the Archos 605. Once a rumor, it’s now official and Archos didn’t even have to make hardware changes. According to Archos, the 605’s 4.3-inch screen is unmatched by other GPS devices [...]

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Clarion’s New DrivTrax Models Announced

17. April 2008

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The DrivTrax DTR-P7DT is a 1-SEG tuning, GPS navigating and MPEG4, WMV, MP3, WMA playing PND. It’s powered by a 400Mhz Samsung processor and runs on Windows CE. Screen is 4.3 inches, which is really all you need in an all-around PND. The P7DT and its Bluetooth-connected brother, DrivTrax DTR-P50, will be released and priced [...]

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Archos PMP to Have GPS

16. April 2008

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French PMP manufacturer Archos is up to something big next week, April 23. According to T3, new PMPs from the company will feature GPS. Archos’s plan is to “direct you to your destination of choice in Europe, the USA or even China, and you can then pass the media player to the back of [...]

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Relevantis does map advertising

23. February 2008

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Relevantis’ advertising platform is one of those things I wish I thought of first so I could retire a billionaire by the time I’m 22. What it does is that it puts branded, paid icons on the map in your mobile phone so you can see all the restaurants, clubs, stores, and other commercial [...]

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Best of MP4 Wholesalers: Zhejiang Yinhe Pharmaceutic Co. Ltd, M200

22. February 2008

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The M200 from Zhejiang Yinhe Pharmaceutic won’t cure anything but your desire for a GPS-equipped PDA that supports DAT, MPEG-4, AVI, WMV, ASF and DivX 3.11, 4.x and 5.x videos. It can also handle MP3, WMA and MP3 audio files, and JPEG, BMP and GIF images, and you can view Powerpoint, Word and Excel files, [...]

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Best of MP4 Wholesalers: Dit Digital Co. Ltd, B-009

19. February 2008

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Dit Digital’s B-009 is a dual-core packing, GPS-enabled (with TMC functionality) PMP with a 4.3-inch touchscreen TFT LCD with a 480×272-pixel resolution.It supports ASF, AVI, WMV and MPEG-4 videos, MP3, WAV, WMA and Ogg audio files, and JPEG, GIF and BMP images. Stereo 1.2W speakers, and Bluetooth, FM transmitter and audio recording capability are built-in, [...]

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Toshiba Shows Very Capable, PMP-Looking Portege G10

12. February 2008

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Toshiba outed its PMP-looking Portege G10 phone at MWC 2008, and we’re seeing a lot to like. The device is equipped with Windows Mobile 6, and supports HSDPA, HSUPA, regular and Assisted GPS, WiFi and Bluetooth. A 2.8-inch QVGA touchscreen, 3MP camera, microSD slot and FM radio functionality are built-in. The due date is Q2 [...]

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