Garmin today introduced the GMA 347 audio panel. The GMA 347 builds upon the successful attributes of the GMA 340 while adding distinctive features such as automatic squelch, digital clearance recorder, full-duplex telephone interface, and additional inputs.
"The GMA 347 audio panel meets the needs of aircraft owners who require industry leading communication integration," said Gary Kelley, Garmin’s vice president of marketing. "The versatility of the audio switching functions helps reduce cockpit workload and makes the flight more enjoyable for the pilot and crew."

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The Magellan Roadmate 800, From the creators of Hertz NeverLost®, has a 3.5” anti-glare TFT color touch screen display which shows the mapping screen clearly day or night. To the right of the screen are the quick keypad buttons that give easy access to many of the main functions required, including Menu, View, Locate, Mute.
The Roadmate 800 is the first GPS to include a Music Player and Picture Viewer. The 20GB of internal memory has space assigned to the user for downloading music (MP3 or WMV) and for loading pictures to be viewed through the Picture Viewer. With the integrated battery, you can watch the pictures or play music anywhere you take your Roadmate 800 GPS.

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Compact and portable, Globalsat GV 101 is equipped with a new-generation SiRF Star III chipset for higher sensitivity, lower power usage and more rapid time-to-fix. It includes powerful functions which contains dimensional graphics navigation and superb readability in direct sunlight.
An all-in-one features car navigation system is launched and emerged to be the dominant protocol for high positioning accuracy, safety and easy-to-use network types. With an optional Bluetooth for handsfree operation, these features are substantial to show you the way to any destination across towns, or even across countries.

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The first modernized Global Positioning System (GPS) satellite built by Lockheed Martin for the U.S. Air Force, was successfully launched yesterday at 11:37 p.m. EDT from Cape Canaveral. The satellite is the most technologically advanced GPS satellite ever developed and will provide significantly improved navigation performance for U.S. military and civilian users worldwide.
The satellite is the first in a series of eight GPS IIR satellites that Lockheed Martin is modernizing for its customer at the Navstar GPS Joint Program Office, Space and Missile Systems Center, Los Angeles Air Force Base, Calif.

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The iQue M5 is perfect for todays mobile professional who wants to get from the boardroom to the hotel without asking for directions. Featuring the latest Microsoft® Pocket PC software, Windows Mobile™ 2003 Second Edition, the iQue M5 supports portrait/landscape screen orientation for easy viewing of documents, videos, and web content. It’s powered by a 416-MHz Intel® PXA 272 microprocessor, and it also provides the user with 64 MB of RAM, 64 MB of ROM and data back-up protection. The embedded Bluetooth® transceiver allows the user to establish a personal-area network with computer systems and Bluetooth-enabled devices such as mobile phones, other PDAs, and printers. Check e-mail and view documents—then sync seamlessly with your laptop.

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u-Nav Microelectronics, developer of the world’s smallest and ultra low power Global Positioning System (GPS) chipsets, today announced the availability of its Orion(TM) Navigation and SDK Software package.

Orion is a powerful and versatile GPS navigation software package designed to support u-Nav’s family of low power GPS chipsets across multiple frequency plans. The software is responsible for all GPS functions such as signal acquisition, tracking, data extraction, and GPS navigation. Orion’s message-based architecture supports both self-contained as well as hosted applications. Orion provides both industry standard NMEA and u-Nav binary protocols. This versatile GPS Navigation package supports autonomous operation and multiple assisted operating modes including 3GPP, 3GPP2, and IS-801 that are required by GSM, WCDMA and CDMA cellular networks. Unlike many competing A-GPS solutions in the market today, u-Nav’s approach allows simultaneous operation of GPS without interruption of a user’s cellular call.

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