Clarion EZDRIVE 580, the new portable navigation device
Clarion Corporation of America’s next generation portable navigation device, EZDrive is as easy-to-use as the name implies. Clarion’s EZD580 is has a 4.3 inch touch-panel screen, built-in rechargeable battery and intuitive operational control.
Clarion’s EZDrive is the ultimate navigation unit. With simple destination input, turn-by-turn voice prompts, text-to-speech operation and selectable route guidance this unit is all about convenience. It even has instant recall of previous destinations and includes an astounding 12 million points of interest in its database.
Mio Technology announces today the availability of the new A501, a multi-dimensional device combining mobile phone, GPS handset and Windows Mobile® 5.0 PDA. The A501 is the ideal tool for people who want to simplify their lives by combining the benefits of satellite navigation, a fully functional PDA and a Smartphone in one device.
The A501 is sleekly designed and fits comfortably into the hand, pocket or handbag, making it one of the most complete, well-crafted and affordable devices on the market.
“The A501 offers audiences the best in design, compactness and functionality” said Paul Notteboom, President of Mio Technology. “But the important factor with this product is that due to its price level of 339 pounds, Mio Technology is opening up the GPS PDA phone market to the ordinary user.”
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Visit the Grand Canyon with a hand-held Gps device
Visitors to the Grand Canyon can now rent a hand-held GPS device to help them find their way around the South Rim of the park.
They are scheduled to be available by July under an agreement between the Grand Canyon Association, a nonprofit association that supports visitor services at the park, and FUNfinder Inc., a Phoenix technology company.
The devices are designed to provide an easy way to navigate the Grand Canyon’s trails and roads, and they also offer information about lodges and educational amenities in the park.
Garmin Nuvi 200W and Nuvi 250W two new widescreen GPS navigators
Garmin today announced the nuvi 200W and the nuvi 250W, two new widescreen GPS navigators that are sleek looking, simple-to-use, and affordable.
The nuvi 200W series boasts a bright, sunlight readable 4.3-inch color touchscreen display (480×272 pixels). Like other models in the 200 series, the nuvi’s new design incorporates a high-sensitivity internal GPS antenna that makes it thinner and even easier to mount in a car. At startup, users are presented with Garmin’s intuitive “Where to?” and “View map” welcome screen, allowing for quick searches of addresses or nearly six million points of interest like restaurants, hotels, attractions, gas stations, and more. Turn-by-turn, voice-prompted directions guide the driver to their destination. The nuvi automatically recalculates a route and gets them back on track if they miss a turn along the way.
Mio C520 navigation device features text-to-speech, wide and split-screen functionality
Mio DigiWalker C520 portable GPS navigation and entertainment device, originally shown at CES 2007, is now available to North American customers. The widescreen device boasts several “firsts” for Mio’s product lineup, including a large 4.3-inch split-screen display, text-to-speech driving instructions and enhanced Bluetooth(R) capabilities.
The most striking feature of the C520 is the large 4.3-inch widescreen display, which can be set to either a full-screen map view or a unique split-screen view. This setting can display additional information about upcoming intersections or provide dynamic lists of approaching point of interest locations as defined by the user. For example — the C520 can be set to show all upcoming movie theatres, gas stations or Italian restaurants. Read all …
Ricoh Caplio 500SE first Gps equipped digital camera
Ricoh released the first GPS-ready digital camera the Ricoh 500SE. The device, featured with an high- resolution 8MP sensor, is very solid and it was developed for outdoor photography.
The camera’s integrated precision GPS module provides for an all-in-one, easy- to-use device for geo-coding images and video at the time of capture. Also the camera is capable of receiving NMEA data streams from external GPS devices via its on-board Bluetooth radio.
Once the captured "geo-images" and "geo-video" files are transferred to a PC, they are automatically converted to shape files or merged into geo-databases for instant integration into Geographic Information Systems (GIS).
In addition to storing GPS data in the image and video files, Ricoh 500SE also utilizes a user-configurable "data dictionary" to tag fileswith workflow-related information. These attributes become part of the GIS layer table for automated database integration.
Also, a great feature is the ability to send images wirelessly to handheld devices via Bluetooth or WiFi.
For more information http://www.ricohsolutions.com/geo/
