Garmin seems ready to blow the doors off when they announce the next round of upgrades with the previously leaked 1690 connected GPS, and now an 1800 class of products that appear to be bigger and better than the rest. A few details are known about the Nuvi 1820, a large 4.8-inch screened giant, with an internet browser, access to email and streaming audio and video. these functions are supported by the WiFi connection. Not sure if the connected EDGE technology is beefy enough to provide these services reliably. It is however plenty big for providing other important connected services like traffic updates, weather, fuels prices, etc.

The Nuvi 1860 is said to add a 3 megapixel camera with geotagging to the mix, above and beyond the beefy 1820 features. Engadget is also reporting that the Nuvi 1690 will come with 2 years of service and be priced in the $500 range. At $10 a month for connected service, that’s half the price of the unit at sticker price.

My observations over the years is that if Garmin is not the first to market with new features, they tend to do it well shortly after someone else’s launch. I am not over the top excited about streaming video on the 1820/1860, but I suspect that the traffic interface, connected search features and other higher order navigation capabilities will be well engineered. We’ll see when they shoot this out come September (hopefully).

Via Engadget

Source: GpsLodge
Read more here:Garmin 1820 and 1860 Connected GPS Leaked – WiFi, Streaming Audio and Video

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