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Video: Real-Life Driving With Dash GPS
This video is what driving with Dash is usually like. At night, it can be especially undramatic, but even when there is a lot of traffic, the truth is, Dash doesn't reroute you often. I use the map as a guide and just drive around the reds (when there are reds). It's funny how the density of traffic data varies time to time, and by what zoom level you are at. But when these things hit the market in the next few days, the traffic data, minute by minute, should shoot up in density. (And until then, the dashed lines, which are based on historical models, are pretty useful.) Also, apologies for any motion sickness incurred from watching this video. Driving stick and using GPS and camcorder at the same time is not that easy. We dropped our review of this baby last night, culled from over 1000 miles of driving, so check it out. [Dash Express review on Giz]
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GPS Navigator with Built-In Breathalyzer
Billed as the first in the world, NDrive's G400 is a GPS navigator with a breathalyzer built into the side. I suppose this means that big drinkers will, finally, have an excuse to sing Show Me The Way To Go Home after a skinful. The fact that it costs 200€—just under $300—and that, according to Kit, who lives in Portugal, they're given away for free with the country's motorway toll widget, means don't trust it further than you can park it. Video after the jump. More »
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Motorola Updates Its Mobile TV With Navigator
Motorola's DH01 mobile TV, above, seen at CES last month, has been updated already. The beleaguered electronics company added a GPS navigation system to the DVR (and an "n" to the model number) and took its DH01n to Barcelona's MWC to show off. It still uses DVB-H format, though, which ain't exactly popular over here. [Motorola]
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Garmin nuvifone Scenario Video Shows Fabulousness of Phone, Creative Fatigue of Nuvi Marketing Team
The nuvifone won't be available until the third quarter of 2008, but Garmin has already dropped a couple videos showing its product off. One of them is a bit dull, you know the sort of stuff, portentious voiceovers talking about "putting more power in the hands of the people." The other one, however, is marketing genius, showing three typical Garmin customers, John, Joey and Suzi, and how they would use their phone. GYAC, it's not John or Joey spending their time shopping and lunching. [NaviGadget]
5:48 AM on Wed Feb 6 2008
By AddyDugdale
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Latest by Thrillcekr: I'll take one. I really don't give a rat's ass about the GPS but it appears to have several of the features of the iPhone and a touch screen. Since it's the closest thing I'll be able to more »
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Alpine PND-K3MSN GPS: Same Old MSN Data, Some New Tricks
The Skinny: Alpine's entire 2008 catalog was just leaked, and this is their MSN navigator with the same slow-ass movies, gas and traffic data that Garmin and others have been rocking for over a year. No word on size of the wide touchscreen display. There's a PND-K3 model without MSN direct.
The Good stuff: Actually, this is one of the first models I've seen to allow sorting of gas by location or price, and I like the zoom into intersection functions that make complicated turn scenarios simple. [AudioJunkies]
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TomTom 920 the New Flagship GPS Navigator?
Hints of a new flagship GPS from TomTom, dubbed the 920, are showing up in TomTom's 720 software. That's good, because right now, its hard for consumers to tell the major differences between the 720 and the 910 (pictured above), which are similarly priced, with ~4 inch screens. The 920, would, in theory and speculation, have the best features from both, including, possibly, a SIRFstar III chipset. More »
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Black Eagle GPS Video Logs Car Crashes
When the Korea-only Black Eagle GPS detects a deceleration of 1.1G or more, it assumes you've plowed into a tree or car, and saves an 18-second video clip of the collision. (12 seconds before, pulled from a cache, and 6 seconds after.) It also has sensors for lane changes. I'm not sure I'd want this incriminating AV evidence on my dash, which also reports your speed before impact. More »
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Sanyo, not the first name you think of when you dream of GPS navigators, just came out with the NVM-4070, equipped with a 4-inch, 16:9 touchscreen, a SiRF Star III receiver, traffic, text-to-speech for reading off street names, 1.8 million points of interest, Video/Photo/MP3/WMA playback and an FM transmitter to get the nav and music channeled through your car stereo.
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Sanyo Easy Streetnav NVM-4070 GPS Nav Does Media Play in Traffic
Sanyo, not the first name you think of when you dream of GPS navigators, just came out with the NVM-4070, equipped with a 4-inch, 16:9 touchscreen, a SiRF Star III receiver, traffic, text-to-speech for reading off street names, 1.8 million points of interest, Video/Photo/MP3/WMA playback and an FM transmitter to get the nav and music channeled through your car stereo.
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First Garmin Nuvi 200 GPS Review: Barebones, Fast, Capable
I'd written about the highly capable c580 GPS the other day with endless bells and whistles—not all of them useful. More »
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Nokia Rolls Out 6110 Navigator in Barcelona: GPS Cellphone
Is this a trend? In its second GPS-enabled cellphone introduced today (see also the Nokia E90 Communicator), Nokia rolls out its 6110 Navigator, a versatile little slider handset that can not only make and take calls, but can also assist the directionally challenged. Plus, if you want some really fast data access, it has HSDPA that can give you a 3.6Mbps throughput. How fast is that? Hey, that's quick as a cable modem, at least in PR-speak. More »
10:20 AM on Mon Feb 12 2007
By Charlie White
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Latest by daverab: First it was data and texting, then a camera. Welcome to 2007: The year of the "Navigator" phone. So what's next? Now that we've slapped on GPS and turn by turn directions, what could they add next? WIFI is probably going to more »
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Sony NV-U71T GPS Likes Finger Caresses
Sony's second generation GPS came out today, building upon the solid, if not a little boring first system. More »
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The voices in Charlie's head are nothing compared to the cacophony coming from his dashboard. Take a look at this video, where you can hear the voices of four GPS units as he test which tell us to turn soonest. The smooth-sounding male voice is that of the Honda Civic Hybrid's built-in GPS unit, the robotic male voice is the Garmin, the smooth and sexy-sounding female voice is the Cobra NavOne, and the other female voice is the Mio. Between all the yapping, its hard to tell which one was a better backseat driver, so hit up our full reviews here. More »
Insanity: Four GPS Navs Shouting From One Dashboard
The voices in Charlie's head are nothing compared to the cacophony coming from his dashboard. Take a look at this video, where you can hear the voices of four GPS units as he test which tell us to turn soonest. The smooth-sounding male voice is that of the Honda Civic Hybrid's built-in GPS unit, the robotic male voice is the Garmin, the smooth and sexy-sounding female voice is the Cobra NavOne, and the other female voice is the Mio. Between all the yapping, its hard to tell which one was a better backseat driver, so hit up our full reviews here. More »
4:22 PM on Mon Oct 16 2006
By Brian Lam
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Latest by Worf: It goes both ways. The recalculating is telling you that it's busy finding your next turn, and that directions may not be forthcoming until it's done (which can take a bit of time until it's found a route). Also useful more »
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Gizmodo Exclusive: Dash GPS Navigator Has Cellular Data and WiFi
Here's the first look, net wide, of the Upstart GPS-startup Dash, and their GPS system. What's special: Instead of pulling maps, and points of interests from a drive or flash memory, the Dash can pull down real time updates over WiFi or cellular data. More »
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Rand McNally Releases GPS Navigator, Finally
Hell, Rand McNally has been designing maps since the U.S was only 13 states—it is good to see them finally get into the GPS biz with this boringly named Rand McNally GPS Navigator. This unit has a 3.5-inch screen or so. It comes loaded up with all of Rand McNally's maps and can get you from home to the nearest strip club you haven't visited with ease and precision. It is also competitively priced at $500 and is currently pre-order only with units shipping in a couple days. More »
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Logitech NuLOOQ Navigator: Control Pod for Adobe Creative Suite
Logitech's PR agency may have jumped the gun a little in announcing the 'NuLOOQ navigator,' a $150 peripheral targeted towards users of Adobe's Creative Suite 2 on the Mac. (If you're thinking that's a fairly specific niche, you're completely right.) Described as roughly the size and shape of a bisected tennis ball, the NuLOOQ navigator can be used by artists to dial in new settings in Photoshop and other CS2 applications, using context-sensitive settings activated by a touch-sensitive surface and embedded buttons. More »
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