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Garmin StreetPIlot onDemand goes social

January 25, 2012 by  
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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 [...]

Garmin StreetPilot Onboard iPhone app gets traffic camera option

November 23, 2011 by  
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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, [...]

Garmin Fit Apps and ANT+ adapter announced

October 25, 2011 by  
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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 [...]

Garmin StreetPilot onDemand for iPhone only 99 cents

August 31, 2011 by  
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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 [...]

Garmin StreetPilot Onboard iPhone app

August 2, 2011 by  
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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.

SPOT Connect review

May 17, 2011 by  
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Hands on with the SPOT Connect The SPOT Connect allows you to communicate with loved ones and social media, or call out search and rescue, even from remote wilderness areas without a cell phone signal. Like the DeLorme PN-60w + SPOT Communicator, the Connect allows you to compose messages on the fly, but instead of [...]

New iPhone app pays you to help fix TomTom maps

May 5, 2011 by  
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That’s right. Why make all those Map Share corrections for free when you can get paid? That’s exactly what the new iPhone app Gigwalk does. It’s not a TomTom product; they’re just the company’s first beta customer. If you’re in one of their initial seven metro areas, you can get $3 for a few minutes [...]

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SPOT Connect shipping (really, we mean it this time)

April 1, 2011 by  
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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 [...]

Garmin StreetPilot app for iPhone announced

January 4, 2011 by  
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Garmin has announced their long awaited iPhone navigation application, dubbed the Garmin StreetPilot app (iTunes link), and it is available now! As you can see from the screenshots at left and farther down this post, the interface will be very familiar to any nuvi owner. The app will retail for $39.99 and include free traffic [...]

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Peak.AR review

July 7, 2010 by  
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Augmented reality for the backcountry Peak.AR is a free augmented reality app for the Android and iPhone platforms, that allows you to identify distant peaks by simply pointing your phone’s camera at them. Pretty cool huh?

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