Consumers no longer have to break the bank to receive top-rate features in the increasingly popular GPS market. NAVIGON, the fastest growing GPS brand, today announced the retail availability of the NAVIGON 2100 max and NAVIGON 2120 max personal navigation devices (PNDs) in the United States and Canada. These devices provide exceptional and affordable value with top-of-the-line features, such as NAVIGON’s new DirectHelp(TM), a feature that pinpoints a user’s location and provides instant links to nearby services such as hospitals, pharmacies and roadside assistance. The devices also include a 4.3 inch widescreen and spoken driving directions via text-to-speech.

Read all »

Nokia and NAVTEQ today announced a definitive agreement for Nokia to acquire NAVTEQ.
The navigation area is a fast growing business, and with location-based services expanding rapidly into mobile communications devices, the industry is poised for even further growth. NAVTEQ brings a number of key assets to Nokia: a great team with best-in-world maps and navigation industry expertise, a strong customer base and an industry-leading map data and technology platform with the broadest geographical coverage.

NAVTEQ will continue to provide the most advanced and flexible map data platform to navigation industry players. With NAVTEQ, Nokia will further strengthen its location based services offering and bring to market the most innovative, context aware Nokia Internet services with accelerated time to market.

Read all »

Wayfinder and Navicore have today announced that an agreement has been signed finalising the acquisition of the Finnish navigation company Navicore by Wayfinder. By joining forces the combined entity will offer award winning location applications and services on all major platforms in connected mobile devices. The user base will exceed one million users with more than 200 000 paying users. There will be no dilution effect for existing shareholders in Wayfinder and the profit per share will not be affected by the acquisition.
Navicore is the premier provider of interactive on-board navigation products for smart phones and Nokia Internet tablets. Navicore products are sold in 30 countries across Europe, North America, Middle East, South Africa and Australia.

The acquisition of Navicore strengthens the Wayfinder strategy to have a complete and outstanding offering to handset and multimedia device manufactures as well as operators around the world.

Read all »

At CES 2007, Trimble has announced GuideWorx GPS an application that transforms a mobile phone into a powerful handheld GPS device specifically designed for both on- and off-road navigation.
The turn-by-turn on-road navigation system for GuideWorx GPS, developed with Networks In Motion’s NAVBuilder Developer Platform, allows users to retrieve maps and other useful travel data in real-time. To plan their off-road recreation, users can access a national database of points of interests while on-the go, and the free PC mapping software offers consumers the option to pre-plan trips that can be sent wirelessly to their GPS-enabled phone.

Read all »

Officially released in the last days the Polaroid MGX-0550, a new Gps devices  featured with  SirfStar III chipset and a built-in DVD player that entertains with DVDs and music CDs.
MGX-0550 is preloaded with maps of all 50states, Canada, and Puerto Rico and with the 5,6 inch LCD touchscreen you can  navigate and play music or DVD’s video and if you miss your turn, the device quickly interrupts your music for yor latest instructions! A unique rotary knob lets you zoom in on maps with pinpoint accuracy and lets you easily access all the features.
Also, through the built-in FM wireless transmitter , you can send audio to the car stereo system.

Read all »

Soundsolution announced TORQ N100 the first PDA phone with an onboard receiver allowing it to support Traffic Message Channel (TMC) functions in available countries when using popular GPS applications. When traveling, the N100 can receive regularly updated reports of the traffic conditions ahead and so alert drivers to problems (such as sudden traffic congestion) that could cause delays on a planned route. TMC’s advanced warning system enables users to make on the fly changes to their journey, avoiding traffic jams and holdups and giving them an advantage to reach their destinations on time.

The N100 is equipped with a large (2.8") touch screen display ideal for using fingertip navigation controls  while the large storage capacity lets users store roadmaps for multiple countries and destinations directly on the device. Location SMS integrates GPS and phone functions to enable users to send SMS text messages including their precise GPS coordinate to any other SMS compatible phone or device.

Read all »