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NAVIGON thanksgiving promotion

Dave Rubert — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 21:07:17 +0000

A recent press release says NAVIGON has a promotion for their new iPhone app. As you know the NAVIGON app is in two pieces. The main app for $90, and the Traffic Live add-on for $25. Now you can save a total of $30 from those two purchases.

Some of the features of MobileNavigator for iPhone include reality view pro, lane assistant, day and night modes, Navteq maps, and intelligent address entry.

For 10 days only, (November 20-30) NAVIGON’s iPhone app, MobileNavigator will be on sale for $69.99 instead of $89.99 providing a $20.00 savings. In addition, NAVIGON’s Traffic Live feature is also on sale for $14.99 instead of $24.99.

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NAVIGON thanksgiving promotion

TomTom cash for clunkers program

Dave Rubert — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 01:46:52 +0000

TomTom just started a new trade-in program – kind of similar to the cash for clunkers deal we had here in the U.S. What you need to do is to purchase a new GPS navigation system from TomTom.com, estimate the value of your trade-in using their calculator, print the shipping label and send it in to their warehouse, and finally get your cash back in about 1 to 2 weeks.

We played with the calculator a bit – a Navigon 2100 we have sitting here with no accessories or cables was $35, a higher end Garmin 760 with charger, cables and mounting kits would get you as much as $177. That’s a good trade-in value! The question is would you trade in your Garmin for a Tomtom?

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TomTom cash for clunkers program

black friday GPS navigation deals

Tim Robbins — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 09:59:15 +0000

Here we have a looong list of image scans for bunch of black friday GPS navigation deals we could find. Bookmark this page. We’ll be updating this as much as possible. Make sure you go to the full page to see the whole list. (alternatively if you don’t feel like fighting the crowds you can try Amazon’s black friday deals)

Sports Authority

Staples

Target

Sears

Walmart

Pepboys

AAFES

Gathered from www.blackfriday.info.

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garmin custom maps

Dave Rubert — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 08:05:36 +0000

Garmin just introduced a free service called Custom Maps that lets Garmin Oregon, Garmin Dakota, and Garmin Colorado users upload their digital or even paper maps into their device.

You’ll have to update the software on your PC and on the Garmin handheld devices we just mentioned, save the map in JPG format, create an image overlay, link the JPG file, adjust the boundaries, then send to your device – all of which are explained here in detail with images.

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garmin holiday ads

Tim Robbins — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 07:40:08 +0000

Garmin has a couple of Christmas ads up. Watch them and get in the holiday spirit.

Nutcracker:

Squirrel:

We don’t have any sort of deal with Garmin just so you guys know. If you see any other company come out with similar ads let us know. We’ll put them up :)

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GPS safety cell phone

Administrator — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 09:36:11 +0000

A company called Clayton Communications just came out with a GPS safety cell phone called ActiveONE. It is a very small GPS device with basic cell phone features and the ability to speed dial four people when you feel you’re in danger.

Active ONE also has a center SOS button which will immediately connect to a US-based 24/7 personal assistance call center. They claim this is better than calling 911 since the personnel already knows who is calling and may already know what kind of assistance you may need – in addition to your location of course.

One other neat feature is to let other family members figure out your location by calling the same call center.

It is mostly designed for the elderly who may have Alzheimer’s or some sort of dementia issues – but there’s no reason for others not to use it. If you’re giving to a very young kid – you better turn off the built-in fall detector though.

Check out their pricing and rates here.

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real time kinematic GPS receiver

Dave Rubert — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 09:17:53 +0000

Real time kinematic GPS receivers are the ones used by pros to do land survey jobs which can provide down to 1 centimetre accuracy. Now you don’t have to spend a fortune on one of these since you can build your own thanks to researchers at Tokyo University.

All you need is a cheap beagle board, the instructions here and lots of free time and patience… via

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Magellan car kit for iPod Touch

Tim Robbins — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 06:17:35 +0000

Just the other day we talked about Magellan’s new app for the iPhone. Soon after we get the news that they’ve also unveiled a car kit that will provide GPS navigation for iPod Touch.

Since there’s no GPS receiver on your iPod Touch, the car kit – as expected – will bring it is own GPS receiver into the game. And with the help of the built-in speakers you’ll be able to get some decent driving directions out of your iPod while charging it too.

In addition the car kit is fully adjustable so it will work with any skin or case, rotates for both portrait and landscape use, has a noise cancelling speakerphone, does handsfree bluetooth calling, and works with any GPS navigation or location based app.

Magellan’s site does not say how much it will cost but we’re guessing $129. It is coming soon. Oh and one more thing – it will work with iPhone too.

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Magellan car kit for iPod Touch

new Garmin GPSmap chartplotters

Dave Rubert — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 02:54:53 +0000

We’ve talked about Garmin’s GPSmap series here on Navigadget but just today they came out with a bunch of new models including this one pictured above – the GPSmap 7215.

Their new series of chartplotters are the GPSmap 6000 and GPSmap 7000 which include the new Garmin G Motion technology that promises to smooth map panning, and zooming with super fast updates. Unlike most other devices out there when it comes to marine GPS devices it is sometimes really important to have a really really dim backlight – and all the new models in these series boast a display that can dim down to 0.5 nits.

The new models are:

GPSMAP 7015: touchscreen, 15″, basemap only
GPSMAP 7215: touchscreen, 15″, U.S. coastal charts and more
GPSMAP 7012: touchscreen, 12″, basemap only
GPSMAP 7212: touchscreen, 12″, U.S. coastal charts and more
GPSMAP 6012: soft key interface, 12″, basemap only
GPSMAP 6212: soft key interface, 12″, U.S. coastal charts and more
GPSMAP 6008: soft key interface, 8″, basemap only
GPSMAP 6208: soft key interface, 8″, U.S. coastal charts and more

Youll have to wait until February 2010 to get one of these MFD chartplotters. Expect to pay more than $3000… press release

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new Garmin GPSmap chartplotters

Magellan RoadMate App for iPhone

Tim Robbins — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 18:38:59 +0000

Our list of iPhone GPS apps keeps growing. Next in line is Magellan RoadMate App for iPhone. It works on iPhone 3G or 3GS and can provide spoken street names.

It is a one time purchase and there are no monthly fees involved. In addition to text-to-speech feature Magellan’s iPhone app also provides highway lane assistance, in-app music control, pedestrian mode, and onboard maps so you can use it without any data service.

You can already download Magellan RoadMate App for iPhone for US and Canada (iTunes) and on the way are other versions which include just Western US, Eastern US, and Europe.

Magellan RoadMate App for iPhone costs $80.

Thanks Allory.

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Magellan RoadMate App for iPhone