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 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!
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
SPOT Connect shipping (really, we mean it this time)
April 1, 2011 By 2 Comments
UPDATE: Read my hands on review of the SPOT Connect
My bad, the SPOT Connect didn’t show up a month ago. But it’s finally here – both REI and GPS City have it in stock. And the SPOT Connect app (pictured above) is live in the Android Market and Apple’s App Store. So now you can go out into the wild and still let your spouse know how much to worry, via your smartphone, even without a cell signal. Or tweet about your broken leg or post it to Facebook. How cool is that? Hopefully it will even work below freezing – despite today’s recall announcement on another SPOT product, I still plan to get one. How about you?
TeleNav comes to VZW Android phones (and its free!)
March 17, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Good news for owners of Verizon Android phones today – Navigation by TeleNav is now available for download, with a free version that includes text-to-speech, traffic avoidance, multiple route choices (seen above at right) and 22 million POIs.
Navigon MobileNavigator for Android review
November 16, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Here’s a brief video review of Navigon’s MobileNavigator Android app:
Garmin gives Asus exclusive on Android handsets
October 27, 2010 By Leave a Comment
UPDATE: After noticing some very specific language from Garmin in news reports, I asked a contact there for more information on this subject. They said that ASUS will have preloaded Garmin navigation on their Android devices as an exclusive, and that Garmin isn’t working on a stand alone Android app at this time.
Bad news Droid owners. It looks like Garmin has given Asus an exclusive for Garmin navigation apps on the Android platform. There’s no word on how long the exclusive lasts. I guess its pretty good news for Navigon though.
Via DigiTimes
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