T-Mobile Garminfone review
Hands on with the T-Mobile Garminfone The T-Moble Garminfone is Garmin’s first Android smartphone released in North America. Produced by the Garmin-Asus partnership, it includes many of the goodies you would find on a nuvi, including North American maps, junction view, lane assist, Where am I?, tracklogs and multi-destination routing.
Waypoints — June 26th, 2010
Waypoints is a weekly link roundup of (mostly) GPS related odds and ends. To get many of these stories as they break, follow me on Twitter. Just for fun Here’s a guy walking across the country (and carrying a Droid and SPOT Satellite Messenger); via Modern Hiker Street View brings you the Horse Headed Man [...]
Garmin nuvi 3700 series hits the market
UPDATE: Read my hands on reviews of the Garmin nuvi 3750 and 3790T The Garmin nuvi 3700 series has finally hit the US market, with GPS City now shipping the nuvi 3790T and 3760T. Amazon, which doesn’t seem to be able to move quite as fast as smaller vendors, is still showing a July 10 [...]
Garmin GPSMAP 78s review
Hands on with the Garmin GPSMAP 78s The Garmin GPSMAP 78s brings the first major update to the GPSMAP handheld line in over four years. The reason for it taking so long is that Garmin had a huge hit with the 60/76 series, and instead of messing with a winner, they turned their attention to [...]
BlackBerry to give apps access to Dash traffic probe data
I was listening to Tech News Today this morning when Becky Worley threw out this little tidbit. Apparently, RIM (maker of Blackberry devices and purchaser of Dash Navigation) is going to make Dash traffic probe data available to all Blackberry developers. Furthermore, the anonymized traffic reporting function will be opt out, meaning a huge amount [...]
TomTom XXL 550TM review
Hands on with the TomTom XXL 550TM The TomTom XXL 550TM is a 5” widescreen unit in the XXL 550 series, and is the first 5” model to incorporate their new new EasyMenu, which debuted in the US on the TomTom EASE. The TM stands for lifetime traffic and maps; the 550 is also available [...]
Waypoints — June 19th, 2010
Waypoints is a weekly link roundup of (mostly) GPS related odds and ends. To get many of these stories as they break, follow me on Twitter. Navigon GPS Tracklog eats crow — Navigon not returning to US PND market Though it does appear they are still working on the Navigon Android app Navigon shows off [...]
PN-60w hits DeLorme website; most earlier models discontinued
UPDATE: I’ve posted reviews of the DeLorme Earthmate PN-60w and the PN-60w / SPOT Communicator combo DeLorme has put up web pages for the forthcoming PN-60 series, including lots of screenshots and other goodies. One thing caught me by surprise – the PN-40 SE model and the PN-30 series are now listed as discontinued. This [...]
MapSource Product Creator
Ever had the itch to make your own maps? Wished that you had access to the same cartography tools used by Garmin? Well, your dreams may be coming true. A new MapSource Product Creator page on Garmin’s developer site offers you the opportunity to… Create custom maps that can be easily loaded into Garmin devices [...]
Waypoints — June 13th, 2010
Waypoints is a weekly link roundup of (mostly) GPS related odds and ends. To get many of these stories as they break, follow me on Twitter. GPS in the news GPS-led blind AT thru-hiker has made it to Harper’s Ferry The Atlantic Wire asks, Is GPS rotting our brains? Court suspect attempts to sell GPS [...]
