Garmin is now offering the special edition Garmin Edge 705 GPS Navigation System for a limited time only. This navigation gadget comes jam packed with a heart-rate monitor, speed/cadence sensor and detailed street maps with turn-by-turn directions and lots of POIs. You can pick up the vanilla Edge 705 for $500.
Navevo announced BBNav, a Blue Badge GPS navigation system, specifically designed to help disabled drivers and those caring for the disabled, such as their families or carers. The specialty of the software is mostly is in its POI database which contains suitable parking locations and other helpful locations for Blue Badge holders.
Other features of Navevo’s BBNav includes:
BBNav comes with maps for the UK and Republic of Ireland, and six month free trial of safety camera alerts.
BBNav will go on sale in October 2008 for £200.
Kinwei Technologies of Shenzen is a GPS navigation system manufacturer. Revealed the KW-GM4306TG. KW-GM4306TG is a GPS navigation system and a gaming console in one device. Nothing like a PSP though.
The device has a 4.3-inch TFT LCD Touch screen with 480 x 272 pixels resolution, and is powered by a Samsung ARM9 400MHz processor. Microsoft Windows CE.NET 4.2 is the operating system and comes with a controller for the games. Inside there’s a 64MB SDRAM ROM and 256MB NAND flash, and a high sensitive SiRF III antenna with 20 channels.
GPS navigation system KW-GM4306TG features:
Perfect for hikers, bikers and climbers and people like me who always get lost in London! This is ordinance survey mapping at its best and it also has the capability to display aerial photography, which may prove invaluable to those interested in exploring hard-to-reach places which have no mapping.
It retails at £299.99 and includes a quick start user guide, standard carry case, lanyard, USB cable, set of 3 Energizer lithium AA batteries and all documentation. The unit comes pre-loaded with full UK OS MiniScale 1:1m and 1:250k (raster) road mapping, and full GB OS Meridian 2 (vector) road mapping.
Shenzen Power Century in 2007 was launched a new series of GPS models, one of which include the NPC-L507. NPC-L507 were exported all over the globe but apparently no takers here in the U.S. just yet. This GPS navigation system has a 4.3″ touch screen and is powered with Centrality Atlas-III 372MHZ CPU. It is quite light weight as it only weighs 150g and measures 119mmx78.5mmx15mm.
NPC-L507 offers some intermediate level GPS functions with some basic multimedia player capabilities. It supports various video format likes WMV, MPEG, avi, asf and 3GP, and the audio player supports WMA, MP3 and WAV file formats. There’s also the photo viewer.
Some of the specs of NPC-L507 include:
Here is the Navman may not be one of the most known names in GPS navigation systems .It has a SiRF Star III GPS receiver and a screen with 480×272 resolution which measures 4.3 inches. does support real time traffic updates however you’ll have to purchase the special cradle for this. It also comes with preloaded safety camera data as a free trial.
Navman used TeleAtlas from the final quarter of 2007 for this model and a 256MB internal memory for map data. It costs about 249 AUD which is about 205 USD.
Navigon announced the new Navigon 2000S. Navigon 2000S seems like a mid-range GPS navigation system with the price of an entry level system. It will cost $199 and will have a 3.5″ screen when it hits the stores in October. It features the Reality View Pro which talked about before when covering Navigon 7200T.
As far as hardware you’ve got:
Thinkware announced the launch of its high-end 7-inch navigation device iNAVI K7 in Korea market, which is equipped with its dynamic electronic map of 3D space representation ‘iNAVI 3D’.
Adopting 8GB SDHC memory card and 256MB of RAM/ROM, the iNAVI K7 provides useful information on the 3D environment structure through a 7-inch WVGA(800 x 480 resolution) LCD in a photo realistic way.
In addition, the iNAVI K7 incorporated G-Sensor(Geomagnetic sensor: 3 axis sensor detecting absolute direction of north pole and heading direction of automobile) that enables stable use of navigation system, by enhancing the cognition of path of vehicle and speed up the search on iNAVI software.
Featuring its touch key with LED lights, it supports multimedia functions such as DMB, video player, mp3 playback, game, e-book and photo viewer and more, thanks to detachable battery pack.
NAVIGON as you know provide Real Time Traffic Updates for life; standard on a wide range of its new products. Navigon 2200T GPS navigator is new version of Navigon 2200 series and it looks like this will be the version to be available in the States.
It has a 3.5 inch touch screen and offers free real-time traffic updates for the life of the product. NAVIGON’s real-time traffic updates product software makes route calculation fast and entering a destination easy, requiring fewer clicks than any other GPS product to enter a destination. Navigon 2200T comes preloaded with Navteq maps of the lower 48 states. The device provides 3D renderings of highway interchanges and it should be available for $229.
NAVIGON 2200T features include:
MapmyIndia launched a Global Positioning System (GPS) based in-car navigation device, known as “MapmyIndia Navigator”.
For the moment its available in two hardware models including Delphi Nav 200 and AMAX 06GP5A. It has integrated GPS, a 3.5 inches color touch screen, Samsung 400 MHz processor, and additional multimedia features. It positions a wide range of perfect Indian maps, provided by CE Info Systems with overall coverage of different streets, localities and many landmarks in more than 18 major cities of the country. Now-a-days, MapmyIndia Navigator is available with car accessories and consumer electronics dealers, also it is available online at MapmyIndia.com.The price can be ranged up to Rs. 21,000 to 22,000. While driving, the user can mount the device on the windshield or dashboard, or else it can be held in hand by the person sitting in backseat of the car.
