Mar31st

Nokia Announces Trio Of New Music Phones

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Nokia announced three new music-oriented phones this morning. The 5730 XpressMusic, 5330 XpressMusic and the 5030 XpressRadio.
Nokia’s 5730 XpressMusic is the company’s first music-oriented handset to come with a full QWERTY keyboard. Also featured is a contact bar on the home screen fitting 20 contacts, one-click access to the Nokia Music Store and [...]

Mar30th

A $99 Iphone? Maybe, But Not At Att

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A $99 iPhone after subsidy will be released in June or July of this year according to RBC analyst Mark Abramsky via Alley Insider.  Citing “checks”, Abramsky says that the $99 price tag would come from fewer features rather than an iPhone nano or a model lacking multitouch.  Likely features that would be cut include [...]

Mar29th

Savant Onpar Golf Gps Caught On Video

Posted at 8:15 pm | Filed Under GPS devices

The impressive looking Savant OnPar golf GPS unit that we mentioned last week has been caught on video by GolfViews on Viddler. You’ll have to head that way to take a look at the 4 minute video, but it looks good. You can pan, zoom, and view the entire course layout of 300 [...]

Mar28th

Drug Dealing Iphone App Underworld Sweetens Up To Gain App Store Acceptance

Posted at 8:15 pm | Filed Under GPS devices

Remember that iPhone app we discussed way back at the beginning of December, dubbed Underworld.  You know, the geo-aware drug dealing application that struck a nerve with parents and addiction groups the world over.  Well, the application has been available for unlocked iPhone’s via Cydia as it’s gone through its evolution, but it still hasn’t [...]

Mar27th

Inkel W500 Gps Navigator Will Get You Killed

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Why use a GPS navigator to navigate when you can use it to watch TV? That seems to be the problem Inkel’s W500 GPS aims to solve–or create depending on your perspective. The touchscreen GPS device not only includes navigation features like dual/3D maps, an Eco-Drive monitor for finding the greenest routes, real-time [...]

Mar26th

Mumbai Terror Could Have Been Averted By Gps: Indian Space Research Organization

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The Mumbai terror wasn’t really a focus here…at all. But the Hindu Times is reporting that the whole lethal debacle could have been averted if the Indian Space Research Organization’s (ISRO) recommendations to the Coast Guard were heeded. Those recommendations included outfitting Indian fishing boats with a GPS-equipped alarm system that would reveal [...]

Mar24th

Fidelity Electronics Bows A $199 Very Personal Computer

Posted at 8:10 pm | Filed Under GPS devices

While most companies are pumping out netbooks with ever larger displays and more features, Fidelity Electronics has taken the route of least resistance and chosen to move the other way.  With only a 7-inch, 800 x 480 resolution WVGA display and ultra-basic features, the Fidelity Electronics Very Personal Computer, or VPC, looks to carve out [...]

Mar23rd

Kogan Bows Gps Watch With Bluetooth

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Sure we’ve had to wait longer than expected for Kogan’s Android phone, but in the meantime the company has kept us interested with a soon-to-launch netbook and now a GPS watch.

The Kogan GPS Watch brings a wide variety of functionality to the table with an extremely low price tag relative to some of the other [...]

Mar22nd

Microsoft Unveils Flurry Of Mobile Announcements In Barcelona

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Microsoft has announced Windows Mobile 6.5 and a variety of other services and partnerships at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.
The 6.5 release doesn’t bring anything to the table that we didn’t already know. It’ll feature a resistive touch-enabled interface, customizable widgets, Internet Explorer 6.1, and support for a few newly announced services.
Among them, [...]

Mar21st

Toshiba Tgo1 Handsets Gets 1 Ghz Qualcomm Snapdragon, Assisted Gps, Full Video Support

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Toshiba’s TG01 is the first 1 GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon-powered handset on the market, or at least it will be when it debuts at Mobile World Congress. The Windows Mobile 6.1 handset has an impressive 4.1-inch WVGA resistive touchscreen with a virtual trackpad, g-sensor, HSDPA 3G, assisted GPS, 512 MB built-in memory, microSD slot, Flash [...]

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