Insta GPS

Are you worried about your kid’s whereabouts? Well the British clothing company Bladerunner has come up with a solution - a jacket with a global positioning tracker (GPS).

The jackets released this week has a tracking device in the lining that allows parents to find the jacket anywhere in the world within a few feet. According to the company, the jackets were originally designed for mountaineers, skiers and snowboarders. The company later decided to make a children’s version with a slash resistant lining..

Google Inc’s mapping tools provides trackers with latest updates about the position of the jacket with updates every 10 seconds. The tracking device’s rechargeable battery lasts for 18 hours.

The jacket is priced at $500 plus $20 a month for the tracking service. Therefore, if you want to know were your child is going convince your child to wear the jacket with GPS tracking device.

Source:Abc13
Image:parenting people

Nemerix is updating its service with the launch of its 4th generation A GPS navigation platform, called the Nemerix NX4. This is the first time that company has launched scalable, hosted and standalone A GPS platform.

Now, you do not have to wait till next year for the GPS enabled iPhone. Thanks to Navizon as it is bringing GPS service for your iPhone.

Here is a good news for Australians as now they easily access variety of mapping and navigation services through their mobile phones. Australia based firm, PhoneIT has launched the first a free to download mobile mapping and navigation service, amAze for Java enabled mobile phones.

Are you searching for your pet? If yes, then GPS enabled real time location tracking system, Myrimis will help you in searching your pet. Hong Kong based Nanomatic has launched Myrimis (my-risk-management+information-system), which enables millions of people to use the most comprehensive location based social network on their personal computers or mobile phones.

Did you remember? Few days back, I told about the launch of TomTom’s new GPS PND model, One XL in Taiwan. TomTom is again back with its new high-end navigator models, the TomTom Go 920 and TomTom Go 920T in the US.

The TomTom Go 920T GPS comes pre-installed with complete maps of Europe, the United States and Canada on 4 GB of internal memory. TomTom’s new GPS device includes enhanced positioning technology to experience more continuous navigation. The enhanced positioning technology of TomTom uses movement and gravity sensors to calculate the position of driven, when there is no GPS signals because there is no direct line-of-sight connection to a satellite.

The Map Share technology helps customers to adjust maps and share corrections with other TomTom customers, so that users can always receive the most up-to-date information. An RDS-TMS Traffic Receiver provides up-to-date traffic information, while an improved Bluetooth remote control allows drivers to operate their device safely from anywhere in the car without touching the screen of device.

The company has also unveiled the TomTom One 3rd Edition along with the TomTom Go 920 series in North America. TomTom One 3rd Edition has an improved user interface that provides options for customizing the navigation screen as well as provides quick search tools.

The new TomTom Go 920 series would be available by the end of 2007 for $600, while the TomTom One 3rd Edition will be available by the end of this month for $250.

Image Credit: TMC Net

Whenever I think about Nokia, portable mobile phones come in my mind rather than GPS devices. Nokia has unveiled the Nokia 500, second in-car navigation system for convenient in-car navigation and communication.

The Nokia 5500 Auto Navigation device has integrated GPS and competitive in-car navigation features as well as complete Bluetooth handsfree system for your compatible mobile phone. The Nokia 500 is featured with 4.3 inch color screen, which makes it easy for you to search through contacts and make and receive calls. The handsfree speaker system with Digital Signal Processing (DSP) provides you excellent audio quality. The Nokia 500 is equipped with high-sensitivity GPS and Nokia Maps navigation software, which gives you clear voice and visual directions. The device comes with pre-installed regional maps and detailed travel information, including your points of interest like hotels, police stations and tourists sites.

The device has an intuitive Nokia interface, featuring a split screen, which provides you additional information like your next turn, estimated time of arrival and distance remaining alongside the main screen to help for your navigation. The Nokia 500 Auto Navigation system allows you to listen music from the integrated music player, view photographs or watch videos. The device also plays music through your car’s FM radio by using the in-built FN transmitter.

It is expected that the Nokia 500 Auto Navigation to be available in selected regions of Europe in the fourth quarter for a price of EUR 300.

Image Credit: Tech Shout

Via: About Electronics

Finally, Mio has launched a couple of new GPS devices in the market. The two new GPS devices, C520and C720t has 4.3 display screen in slim form factor. Both GPS devices are featured with Bluetooth capabilities and also makes easy to receive and make calls while driving.

The Mio C520 has a 480×272 pixels QVGA touchscreen and it is compatible with USB 2.0. The size of the Mio C520 is 0.8″ x 3.2″ x 5quot and it weighs only 190 grams. The Mio runs on Win CE .Net 5.0 and it comes with bundled of MioMap navigation software. You can easily carry this small size GPS device in your pocket.

While the second device, Mio DigiWalker C720t GPS comes with a 2MPx camera and business card scanner. It has ability to import contact info and photo geotagging. The Mio DigiWalker C720t GPS also supports an SD/MMC memory slot. It offers SD and MMC memory card slots too.

Image Credit: Tech Fresh

Via: Mobile Whack

Netherlands based company, TomTom International BV has launched a new model of its ONE series GPS portable navigation devices (PND), named TomTom ONE XL in the Taiwan market. The TomTom ONE XL is available at NT$12,900 in the market.

The company has launched the second GPS PND model in Taiwan. The company had launched the first TomTom ONE launched in May. The TomTom ONE XL is featured with 4.3-inch screen and voice navigation. TomTom One XL a mid-range model, while TomTom is an entry-level navigation. The company is planning to launch four new GPS PND models, including high-end ones.

Currently, TomTom is covering more than 15 percent market in Europe. The company has sold 150,000-180,000 GPS PNDs last year in Taiwan. TomTom is expecting to increase the sales around 170,000-190,000.

Image Credit: Top Deals

Via: Digit times

The reference application software, Install n Go is available from u-Nav Microelectronics, which enables integration of host based GPS navigation software. The Install n Go software is based on u-Nav’s Orion RX2 high sensitivity GPS receiver.

The Install n Go startup operation and user interface would be easily customized to fit the needs of different applications. The reference software is demonstrated on a standard handheld device, which is running Windows PocketPC Operating System.

According to says Peter Benschop, u-Nav Director of Worldwide software, the new Install n Go software eliminates the complexity of device driver development and modifies the kernel level to minimize the integration effort of high performance GPS host based solution. It has additional GPS software to implement a fully functional cost optimized 20-channel GPS receiver with sensitivity levels of -160dBm.

The new software is featured with Windows CE host application program, which initializes the Orion RX2 GPS hardware. It also manages the fully ported Hosted Orion RX2 navigation software and also provides a standard NMEX interface for Windows mapping software through an integrated virtual serial communication port.

In addition, the Install n Go is fully compatible with ARM based host processor and also utilizes the standard Windows CE drivers for serial communication to the GPS IC and control lines to the GPS subsystem. When the software is not using GPS functionality, it automatically places the u-Nav Orion RX2 in sleep mode to save power and reduce host memory utilization.

Image Credit: TRGega

Via: ARM

Germany based manufacturing company, Navilock has launched a Bluetooth enabled 2.0 mouse with a GPS receiver. The new mouse can be connected to the computer as well as to mobile phones, UMCPs via Bluetooth. The new BT-451 mouse works as an external GPS receiver with its own power source and wireless connects to PDAs, mobile phones and notebooks.

The device includes u-blox high sensitivity ATR0635 GPS single chip that is capable of tracking outdoors as well as indoors. The BT-451 has a powerful antenna, which outperforms other GPS receivers.

Navilock claims that the battery of both the mouse and the portable device is increased by allowing the device to connect to the mouse, when it needs positional data. The u-blox ATR0635 GPS single chip has been selected due to its superior indoor GPS functionality.

According to Frank Kautz, Product Manager at Navilock, the company has selected u-blox’ GPS chip due to its high sensitivity receiver, which ensures uninterrupted, accurate tracking even in the most challenging signal environments.

Image Credit: Media King

Via: About Electronics

The new GPS wristwatch called Pyxis RGPS-3000 is the new innovation unveiled by a Korean company. This GPS timepiece is specially designed for golfers. This watch allows users to load golf courses onto the device allowing them to keep track of the score.

Moreover, RGPS-3000’s software is also adaptable to several conditions especially for outdoor activities such as running bicycling, hiking etc. this is a good idea of a GPS system keeping accurate track of how far one have walked, jogged, swam etc.

The Pyxis RGPS-3000 will be released in Korea only as there is no news regarding the global launch of this watch. This smart gadget can be yours for $215 in Korea.

Source: Navigadget

Soon, Sprint customers would be able to find out exact location of their friends through their mobile phones. A Mountain View based Loopt has signed a deal with Sprint to launch its social mapping service on selected Sprint and Nextel mobile phones using its Global Positioning System (GPS) capability.

Under this deal, the service allows Sprint mobile phone users to share their locations and status messages to their friends. Even they can send proximity based messages and their geo-tagged photos to their family. Loopt’s social mapping service can find private network of friends and display the locations of friends on a map on the phone. The service also features geo-tagging with its journaling features, so that mobile phone users can capture their experiences and share them with their friends.

The service is 100 percent permission based, which allows users the location-sharing function on or off at will for select friends or for everyone. The service allows you to leave little notes and pictures, which are related with a location for your friends. Even you can receive alerts, when your friends are nearby and allows them to meet up at specific location. Users need to pay $2.99 a month to activate this service.

According to Loopt CEO and cofounder, Sam Altman, the most common question on mobile phone is ‘Where are you?’. Now Loopt would be able to answer this question for Sprint customers, who whish to participate.

Image Credit: Mad 4 Mobile phones
Image Credit: SF Gate

Now, you can esaily find out your friend’s location through VITO’s new application. VITO has launched new GPS application, named VITO FindMe for Pocket PC phone Edition, which will help users to find out their friends by just sending an SMS. VITO FindMe is a free GPS utility for Pocket PC Edition, which has in-built GPS receiver under Windows Mobile 2003 5.0, 6.0.

Users can simply send an SMS, which contains codeword to a Pocket PC with installed VITO Find Me.

Thus it allows you to receive your friend’s coordinates through Google Maps. Even it allows VITO FindMe to send your friend’s coordinates through email. The features of VITO FindMe are given below:

1) You can easily spot your friends on Google Maps
2) Send your location through e-mail
3) It has password protected settings

Image Credit: I am Powered & Free Ware Pocket PC
Via: Mobility Site

GPS or the global positioning system is a pretty handy thing to have. Why? Well, it will help you find your way back to wherever you want. Just key in some points and press some buttons and bingo! you are at your destination. An Indian company Bharti Airtel launched this service in collaboration with Sweden based Wayfinder systems.

Airtel will introduce the handy GPS system in the Blackberry 8800 smart phones. This system will transform the cell phones to a GPS receiver complete with all kinds of maps as well as points of interest. The points of interest will be based on number of Indian cities like Delhi, Faridabad, Navi Mumbai, Mumbai proper, Chennai and Kolkata.

I think this is a good endeavor from Airtel’s part. However, I seriously doubt how many of us will use the Blackberry phones. Maybe they should have thought about building this technology in other commonly used phones.

About the GPS service plan

Airtel is offering a 6month free trial to it’s blackberry 8800 users. According to the company, the customers won’t have to pay any charges whatsoever on the application initially.
There is a data download fee that is charged to the users. Users will have to download the GPS application on their handsets. In order to do so all they have to do is SMS ‘NAV’ to ‘3636′.

According to the Chief Marketing officer of the Airtel mobile Sanjay Gupta , the GPS is supposed to be state of the art:

We are now introducing in India a state-of-the-art GPS-based navigation system that will largely benefit all frequent travelers using compatible mobile handsets like the BlackBerry 8800

Hopefully Airtel will see an increase in users because of this latest service they have introduced. Irrespective of the number of users subscribed to the system, the best part about this is GPS service has started in India. At least you won’t have to ask for directions to random strangers.

Image Credit: Techshout

Source Link: Techtree