The Garmin nuvi 770 is the top of the line when it comes to the nuvi line. With a large 3.81″W x 2.25″H (9.7 x 5.7 cm) and 4.3″ diag (10.9 cm) screen, the 770’s many features are easy to navigate.
Some of the features included are preloaded street maps with full coverage for U.S. and Europe, MP3 player, audio book player, integrated FM traffic receiver, Bluetooth® wireless, voice directions, FM transmitter, widescreen, route planning, trip log, and a locator.
The Garmin site has this to say about the 770:
Navigation is just the beginning. nüvi 770 includes many “must have” entertainment and travel tools including MP3 player, audio book player (subscription to Audible.com required), JPEG picture viewer, currency converters and more. With nüvi 770’s wireless FM transmitter¹ you can hear audio, including voice prompts, MP3s and audio books, through your vehicle’s stereo. It also includes optional MSN® Direct and comes with Garmin Lock™, an anti-theft feature, and configurable vehicle icons that let you select car-shaped graphics to show your location on the map. Optional plug-in SD cards let you add additional features to enhance your travel experience including language translation and detailed travel guides. Our SaversGuide® provides information on nearby merchants offering discounts to customize your nüvi whether you’re traveling or close to home.
The nuvi 770 will be available 4th quarter 2007 and will have an MSRP of $ 1071.42 USD.
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The Garmin StreetPilot c330 is at the top of the list of full-featured, affordable automotive GPS units. It features an easy to use, touchscreen interface with automatic route calculation to any destination and turn-by-turn voice-prompted directions to get you where you need to go “hands free”.
The StreetPilot c330 offers a bright, 3.5-inch diagonal, 16-bit color display that allows you to choose between a three-dimensional navigation view or the more traditional “bird’s eye” overhead view.
For the ultimate out-of-the-box convenience, the StreetPilot c330 comes preprogrammed with highly detailed City Navigator® street data. The database features nearly six million points of interest—including hotels, restaurants, gas stations, ATMs, and attractions.
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Sanyo is introducing the NVM-4030 portable navigation device that is designed to be a low cost alternative to the equivalent TomTom and Mio offerings. The device will include Bluetooth hands free communication, a digital music player and a large 4 inch display. Some of the other features:
- Monitor: 4″ Wide TFT Touch Screen
- Navigation: No Download Required (Easy to Start)
- Continental U.S. and Canada Map Data
- Over 1.4M POI (Points of Interest)
- Voice Guidance
- Turn-by-Turn Navigation
- 2D and 3D Map
- Music: Plays MP3 (ID3 Tag) / WMA/WAV stored on SD Card
- Headphone Jack
- Bluetooth: Hands-free Calling with Cell Phone including Bluetooth
- Call-out from Contact List (Max 500)
- Language: English or Spanish
- Power: DC12V and AC Power
- Li-ion Battery (Max 3.5 H)
- Includes Accessories: 1 GB SC Card storing U.S. Map Data / AC and DC Power Adapters / Car Mounting Kit/ USB Cable/ DVD storing U.S. and Canada Map / Instruction Manual CD/ Quick Start Guide
There is no release date at this time but the Sanyo website says they will be accepting orders soon.
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This past March we reviewed the Magellan eXplorist 500 and now Magellan has announced the eXplorist 500 LE. According to the press release, this is the first color handheld product in its class to offer a choice of AAA batteries or a rechargeable Li-ion battery pack.
The 500 LE offers hikers the ability to calculate area and a perimeter while also providing vertical profiles for trails. The easy to use interface allows users to load and access multiple programs on a single Secure Digital (SD) memory card via a 2.3 inch display. Using Magellan’s MapSend Topo 3D, hikers can take advantage of a comprehensive view of contours, elevations, detailed terrain and relative points of interest.
The eXplorist 500 LE features a unique geocaching manager. It gives you the ability to load the software data directly from the Internet to the Magellan eXplorist. With optional Magellan software, you can also add street maps.
The eXplorist 500 LE lists for about $250 online.
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Sony has announced the release of the GPS-CS1 GPS device that lets you put your pictures on the map. The device uses its GPS enabled time and location recordings and the time stamp from a Sony digital still camera or camcorder to allow you to plot your digital images to a map and know exactly where they have been.
Only 3.5 inches long, the 12-channel GPS weighs 2 ounces and comes with a carabineer to easily attach to a backpack or a camera bag.
“Whether you’re traveling to the Seven Wonders of the World, or just wondering where to buy your next house, our new GPS device can track your journey,” said David Johns, product manager for digital camera accessories at Sony Electronics. “Adding a geographic context to your digital images helps organize and make use of your photos in entirely new ways.”
To arrange your pictures in geographical order, you only need to use the supplied USB cable and download the images to your computer where the GPS Image Tracker software synchronizes the images on your digital camera with the latitude, longitude and time readings from the GPS-CS1 device.
The GPS-CS1 should be available in September of 2006 for about $150.
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