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.
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.
SPOT Connect review
May 17, 2011 By 33 Comments
Hands on with the SPOT Connect
The SPOT Connect
New iPhone app pays you to help fix TomTom maps
May 5, 2011 By Leave a Comment
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 of your time, with the possibility of getting some higher level gigs paying up to $90.
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?
Garmin StreetPilot app for iPhone announced
January 4, 2011 By 8 Comments
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 alerts, lane assist, junction view, and speed limits. According to Garmin, the maps are off-board, delivered over the air, assuring you of the latest maps. They also say that the app will integrate well with iTunes and contacts, allowing you to control music and take a phone call while navigation continues in the background.
Hit the jump for the full news release and more pics.
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