UPDATE: Read my hands on review of the Magellan RoadMate 5175T-LM.
If Garmin won’t follow up on the success of their WiFi-enabled nuvi 295W, Magellan certainly will. That’s right, the new Magellan RoadMate 5175T-LM offers WiFi and a Web browser. Besides that, you’ll get the ability to switch between portrait and landscape modes, a 5” screen, lifetime map updates and traffic, and a new feature called Tour Director. The latter presumes to know how long the kids will want to stay at Disneyland! MSRP is $299.99; we don’t have any word on availability but we’re betting it will be hitting store shelves soon. Hit the jump link for a video preview:
is one of several models offered by Magellan with a gigantic 7” screen, making it a good option for truckers and RVs. It comes with preloaded maps of the US and Canada, Bluetooth for hands free calling and lifetime traffic. 
Magellan has found a corner of the auto market they can dominate – at least until someone else introduces a 7” model. Having had 
I started hearing rumors about this a few months ago, and today we have confirmation; Magellan portable navigation devices (and apparently apps too) are switching from NAVTEQ maps to Tele Atlas. The Tele Atlas agreement covers other MiTAC owned brands as well – Mio and Navman. It remains to be seen how smoothly the switchover will go, as some early concerns have been posted at 
The folks at the FCC are busy approving all sorts of consumer electronics ahead of the holiday shopping season, and GPS navigators are no exception. Today’s list includes several new TomTom and Magellan models.
is a newly (spring 2010) introduced unit with a 4.7” screen, lifetime traffic, Bluetooth for hands free calling, and an innovative “Traffic Wakeup” feature that downloads traffic data ahead of your daily commute.
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