Connected Garmin nuvi 1690 now shipping
UPDATE: Read my hands on Garmin nuvi 1690 review. The connected Garmin nüvi 1690 with nüLink! is now shipping from Amazon. We weren’t expecting this unit until late October, so it’s a bit of a surprise. If you grab one, let us know what you think of it!
PC Mag slams nuvifone G60
Wow! PC Magazine has posted a Garmin-Asus nuvifone G60 review and they slammed it, giving it a 2 out of 5 star review, saying, “It’s like Garmin gave up halfway through the development cycle and released what it had.” This, despite some fairly positive points. It sounds like it’s a good phone and a good [...]
Consumer Reports rates GPS navigators (again)
The November issue of Consumer Reports has a short item with a chart rating traffic-ready and traffic optional GPS receivers. The list is pretty good on the traffic-ready side, where they went with the voice command Garmin nuvi 885T as the top-rated model; I prefer using a touch screen interface myself, but the 885T is [...]
Garmin intros HomePort marine planning app
Garmin has announced a new marine planning software desktop application dubbed HomePort. After the introduction of this and BaseCamp, perhaps we’ll see a new auto trip planner in the near future. Full news release after the jump…
Top 10 GPS for September 2009
Not seeing last month’s list? Click here for the latest listing of the top ten GPS receivers on GPS Tracklog. There were only minor changes in this month’s rankings, with a few units jumping around but nothing new added to or falling off the list. I expect we’ll continue to see such stability for another [...]
