Peak.AR review
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?
Massachusetts bans phone navigation – PNDs okay
Massachusetts has a new anti-texting law that will ban the use of cell phones for auto navigation, while allowing personal navigation devices (PND). While I think PNDs are much easier and safer to use than phones, I have my doubts that this was a carefully considered part of the legislation. Hey, maybe TomTom did [...]
T-Mobile Garminfone review
Hands on with the T-Mobile Garminfone
The T-Moble Garminfone is Garmin’s first Android smartphone released in North America. Produced by the Garmin-Asus partnership, it includes many of the goodies you would find on a nuvi, including North American maps, junction view, lane assist, Where am I?, tracklogs and multi-destination routing.
BlackBerry to give apps access to Dash traffic probe data
I was listening to Tech News Today this morning when Becky Worley threw out this little tidbit. Apparently, RIM (maker of Blackberry devices and purchaser of Dash Navigation) is going to make Dash traffic probe data available to all Blackberry developers. Furthermore, the anonymized traffic reporting function will be opt out, meaning a huge [...]
Magellan ToughCase ruggedizes your iPhone
Looks like Magellan is going to roll out an uber-case for the iPhone. The ruggedized ToughCase adds an improved GPS receiver, battery pack, IPX7 water proofing and quite a bit of bulk. And it’ll set you back about $200!
Garmin-Asus nuvifone E600
A Garmin-Asus E600 “PDA phone” has cleared the FCC. Little information was made available in the filing though, with no indication whether it is going to be an Android phone or use the customized Linux OS found on their first AT&T nuvifone. About all we can say is that it’s a GSM phone that [...]
My Tracks for Android
My Tracks is a free Android app that allows you to record and share GPS tracks. Incredibly easy to use, it layers your track onto Google Maps or satellite view (as shown above). Getting the track off your phone is as simple as saving the track, selecting the drop down More button and then [...]
Coming to the US (eventually)
There were a couple of major announcements made yesterday by TomTom and Garmin-Asus; unfortunately they didn’t involve products for the US, at least not yet. I do expect that all will be making it to our shores eventually. The Garmin-Asus team will need to romance a carrier first, while TomTom just seems to have [...]
Garminfone coming to T-Mobile
UPDATE: Read my hands on review of the T-Mobile Garminfone.
Garmin and T-Mobile have announced the Android-powered Garminfone, which will be exclusive to T-Mobile. This seems to be a US version of the nuvifone A50, previously announced for some Asian and European markets. That model got quite a few positive reviews, unlike the original nuvifone G60. [...]
GPS beats market research at own game
TeleNav is releasing some data this morning that isn’t too startling in its own right, but it speaks to a revolution in market share analysis. Companies like Nielsen and Arbitron estimate media market share, but GPS-enabled phones can do them one two better, delivering location market share data, and not just estimates either. This [...]
