Garmin has just announced a new LiveTrack feature for their Fit smartphone app, that allows you to share your location by email, Facebook or Twitter. At an in-app purchase price of $19.99 a year or $1.99 per month, I think they are going to sell a lot of these. There are enough runners and road bikers with anxious spouses that I think it will be a big hit.
Garmin adds LiveTrack feature to Fit app
May 7, 2012 By 7 Comments
Garmin StreetPIlot onDemand goes social
January 25, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Garmin is rolling out several new features for its StreetPilot onDemand app for iOS, including Facebook and foursquare check-in, a Wikipedia layer, and the ability to add new voices and custom vehicle icons. Also new is an update to the Garmin Tracker iOS app for the GTU-10, allowing continuous tracking and the option to share a link so others can view the location as well. And in case the new features have piqued your interest, Garmin’s StreetPilot onDemand and Navigon apps will be on sale for $10 off during Macworld (January 26-28):
- Garmin StreetPilot Onboard USA: $39.99 instead of $49.99
- Garmin StreetPilot Onboard North America: $49.99 instead of $59.99
- Garmin StreetPilot onDemand: the annual subscription is $19.99 instead of $29.99
- NAVIGON USA: $39.99 instead of $49.99
- NAVIGON North America: $49.99 instead of $59.99
- NAVIGON MyRegion: $19.99 instead of $29.99
Garmin StreetPilot Onboard iPhone app gets traffic camera option
November 23, 2011 By 2 Comments
Tired of inaccurate traffic data? How about live traffic camera images instead? Well that’s a new option as of today’s update to the Garmin StreetPilot Onboard app for the iPhone. The update will also add live weather info and the ability to share points of interest via Facebook and SMS. While the update is free, the photoLive Traffic Cameras feature will cost you $9.99 as an in-app purchase.
Garmin Fit Apps and ANT+ adapter announced
October 25, 2011 By Leave a Comment
UPDATE: Looks like the ANT+ adapter for iPhone will be available later this week.
Garmin has announced the Garmin Fit app for iPhone and Android this morning, and an ANT+ adapter for the iPhone (that link wasn’t live when I posted this, but it probably will be later this morning). This is Garmin’s first fitness app, allowing users to track speed, pace, distance, time and calories. And at $0.99, it’s likely to gain a lot of users pretty quickly.
Enter traffic circle and keep left?
October 17, 2011 By 3 Comments
Okay, maybe it’s unfair to call out Google Maps Navigation for this error. After all, every GPS can give you faulty directions, no matter what database they are using for road data. But I’ve never seen this type of error on a unit using NAVTEQ or TeleAtlas maps. Fail!
Garmin StreetPilot onDemand for iPhone only 99 cents
August 31, 2011 By 4 Comments
Garmin has announced yet another version of their iPhone app – StreetPilot onDemand. Designed to attract help navigate impulse buyers, the price of admission is only $.99 which gets you 30 days worth of Garmin goodness. The company says that this is also…
…the first iPhone navigation app to include multimodal pedestrian routing, with bus and train transit schedules in many major cities.
Garmin StreetPilot Onboard iPhone app
August 2, 2011 By 6 Comments
Recalculating! Garmin has done a course correction with their iPhone app, rolling out a version with onboard maps, eight months after the release of their original StreetPilot app that used offboard maps. Considering AT&T’s reception problems in many areas, it’s probably a smart move.
Google Maps Navigation to use onboard maps?
June 9, 2011 By Leave a Comment
According to All About Phones, a Dutch website, Google Maps Navigation will soon have a full-blown offline mode. Late last year, with the introduction of Google Maps 5.0 for Android, GMN moved to vector graphics and improved route caching. But this new capability would allow you to plug in a destination while outside of cell range, which means that some maps and associated data would always be cached on your device.
Preserving cellphone battery life in the backcountry
May 24, 2011 By 4 Comments
I imagine that a lot of our readers are trying out their smartphones in the backcountry, using mapping applications for navigation. One of the problems with this (and there are several), is that few things will drain your battery faster than your phone searching for a signal where there is none, or where reception is marginal.
SPOT Connect review
May 17, 2011 By 33 Comments
Hands on with the SPOT Connect
The SPOT Connect
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