Garmin & Tele Atlas recently signed a definitive agreement under which Garmin will be making use of maps from Tele Atlas in a few of their products. Particularly, Tele Atlas maps will be utilized in the Garmin GVN 52 product in Malaysia and Singapore. Garmin also looks forward to expand usage of the Tele Atlas maps on that device in other on the rise markets. Dan Bartel, vice president of worldwide sales, Garmin, We are looking forward to a rewarding relationship with Tele Atlas that will help Garmin extend its reach in these growing markets. Accurate and reliable maps are crucial to navigation, and this agreement allows us to continue offering best-in-class Garmin products. The GVN 52 is in actual fact cool product, which is essentially a behind the dash GPS that gets connected to an existing video display in your car. And as far as its features are concerned, it can be compared to the StreetPilot c5xx series. George Fink, president and chief operating officer, Tele Atlas, was quoted as saying, With this agreement, seven of the eight top portable navigation companies worldwide now trust Tele Atlas for rich, fresh and accurate map data. Read
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Growing GPS hardware demand intensifies competition
A recent retail study by NPD Group reveals that as the number of companies are coming up with the portable navigation machines, the demand for GPS has also increased rapidly for the last couple of days. The study reveals that long-established GPS distributors or the giant of the GPS market, like Garmin and Magellan, have been integrated by consumer electronics manufacturers such as Sony, JVC, and LG Electronics; PC makes such as Hewlett-Packard; and mobile audio brands like Alpine and Pioneer. All these vendors and more have been making most out of the record breaking increase in the portable navigation sector, which made almost $500m in sales in 2006, and made out unit rollouts raise by 255 per cent over the year before. Read
Garmin hits US market with its latest Rino 520HCx and Rino 530HCx
Garmin recently rolled out the Rino 520HCx and Rino 530HCx, the latest in Garmin’s innovative and award-winning line of two-way radios built-in with GPS technology. The latest units is combined with a high- sensitivity GPS receiver for quicker acquisition, enhanced accurateness in challenging outdoor surroundings, and the accumulation of a microSD card slot for comprehensive mapping information. Besides, the Rino 520HCx and Rino 530HCx are also featured with an upgraded processor for quicker map drawing and route calculation. Similar to its forerunners, these five- watt Rinos claims to provide a 14-mile communique range, mini-USB interface, and integrated auto-routing basemap. The Rino 530HCx consists of the similar characteristics as the 520HCx, also a seven-channel weather receiver, along with automatic weather alert potentials, an electronic compass and barometric altimeter. The patented location-reporting characteristic is integrated with the distinctive incorporation of navigation and communique technologies in the Rino series, allowing users to beam their location to other Rino users over the Family Radio Service (FRS) and General Mobile Radio Service (GMRS) spectrum. Other users are able to thereafter make out the position of the sender on their map display, which depicts the distance and direction between the sender and those getting the broadcast location. The Rino 520HCx and 530HCx are comprised with an integrated basemap of North and South America, which shows cities, highways and borders. The latest microSD card slot also enables users to buy previously planned MapSource Topo maps for their subsequent hiking or hunting adventure, City Navigator NT maps for automatic turn-by-turn driving routes, or BlueChart or Inland Lakes maps for on- the-water voyages. Users are also allowed to deploy parts of MapSource CD-ROM maps onto blank microSD cards. Similar to all Rino units, the latest Rinos are ruggedized, lightweight (10.3 oz.) and water-resistant in one meter of water for almost 30 minutes. The devices are power-driven by a lithium-ion battery pack, which claims to give 14 hours of typical use. The utilization of GMRS frequencies in the US needs a license from the FCC. Applicable regulatory agencies ought to be talked to before making use of the Rino radio outside the US and Canada. The Rino 520HCx is likely to be availed in June 2007 with the retail price of $449.99., while the Rino 530HCx is likely to be availed in June 2007 with an MSRP of $499.99.
Garmin offers Developer Toolkit for GPS
Garmin was recently reported to have said that they would very shortly get comfy with webiste and other software designers by making a release of an API library, which is said to enable designers to better “talk” to GPS units. Thus earlier when you had to download waypoints from Geocaching.com to your PC and then upload them to the GPS, now that is just one click away i.e. by clicking on the Garmin logoed button, the website will have a talk directly to the GPS and relay the coordinates of the next cache directly to the unit. Through the write-up, which is available at http://www.gpslodge.com/ it is learnt that at present there are six API’s, one of which touts to give support to location-based services, thus there is no need to be surprised that these GPS enablers were made public with the Where 2.0 conference that is being held in San Jose. The Garmin Developer website is said to be a developer zone which is totally devoted to software designers and content suppliers who would like to make their website, apps and data content consistent with Garmin navigation systems. The Garmin Developer website gives both free and licensed Garmin resources and a library of Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), toolkits and web services introducing 6 core products: MotionBased Web Services, Garmin Communicator Plugin, Content Toolkit, Messaging System, Garmin PeerPoint, Garmin LBS Toolkit and Fleet Management Interface.
New Widescreen GPS Release by Garmin
Latest nuvi line up of Garmin has been ramped up with approximately 200W of mapping units. The two models of Garmin are mainly set for launch. They are 200W and 250W respectively. Both these models are utilizing similar high sensitivity antenna which plays effective role in slimming down their profile as compare to various other GPS receivers. To enhance readability as well as control in car, it has also added 4.3 inches of wide touchscreen. Both of them also possess millions of points of interest. They also encompass various unique software features from navigation company, such as Garmin lock. Garmin lock works effectively for both safe driving and combination. Moreover, this platform is open for third party companies. They can also add more details to map. According to Garmin, various versions of 200w that are available outside US comprise maps for Australasia, Europe, Mexico, and Brazil. Via:about-electronics
Garmin officially announces eTrex Vista HCx
Garmin’s most recent adding to the eTrex series, the eTrex Vista HCx is officially announced. While the new eTrex series was announced some days back it was told that they are consisted with backup for the next-up Galileo satnav brought about by EU but the Garmin does not talk about such thing. We’ll just go ahead and blame our source. Nonetheless, the eTrex Vista HCx is even now pretty competent regardless of lack of backup for Galileo. It consists of a color screen, barometric altimeter and an electronic compass, which is capable of displaying you where north is but for making you sprint in a straight line. Vista HCx agrees to microSD cards, which stands for you are able to put in your MapSource card with comprehensive street maps and Vista HCx is capable of making available turn-by-turn guidelines to your goal exactly like a car satnav. One nicer thing regarding Vista HCx is that it sprints on AA batteries thus you do not to be anxious about plugging subsequent to the 1st 25 hours –simply take a little batteries with you. The eTrex Vista HCx comes with the suggested price tag of $320.
Garmin expands its Nuvi 200 Series with Wider Screen, better resolution
If you believed the 3.5-inch GPS market was being a bit way oversaturated, apparently you weren’t alone. Recently GPSPassion was reported to have said that Garmin of late let out rumors of a widescreen 4-inch version of the nuvi 200 and 250, both of which will put on Ws towards the end of their names to be a sign of the additional real estate. The display itself will apparently include a 480 x 272 resolution, and as can be guessed by us that the real software and characteristic sets will continue basically the same, there’s no way of making out just so far. Remarkably, it’s not so far apparent if the North American-friendly nuvi 270 will wind up getting a tad of width also, however the 200W and 250W should be shipped in European shops just round the corner for an estimated €299 ($402) and €349 ($469), in that order.