CTIA Wireless 2007: Previously, Garmin International directed us how to get there. Now the Olathe-based maker is coming up with the offering of information on cheap places to stay when we get there. Yes, the giant of GPS devices Garmin recently announced to have come up with a new and best-of-breed version of its wireless phone navigation service, including 3-D mapping and cut-rate hotel room for travelers.
The enhancement to Garmin Mobile, to be availed at present on a few Sprint and Nextel phones, claims to facilitate subscribers to the service to customize their routes and get services all along the way. Garmin Mobile puts forward easy to hear turn-by-turn directions, weather info, traffic info, gas prices and other data via a few Internet-based cell phones.
With the offering this latest services, the subscribers are allowed to make out their route in a 3-D view, like that provided by the company’s portable navigation devices. The upgrading also boasts of providing info on 70,000 hotels and their rates via Hotels.com.Garmin Mobile service comes with the price of just $9.99 a month. A Mobile Lite version, integrated with turn-by-turn instructions rather than traffic, hotel rates and other info, will come with the price tag of only $4.99 a month.















