3.5-Inch Portable GPS Navigator

nüvi comes ready to go right out of the box with preloaded City Navigator NT street maps for the continental United States, Hawaii, and Puerto Rico, including a hefty database of more than 6 milliong points of interest (POIs), such as hotels, restaurants, fuel, ATMs and more, that are searchable by name or category. Simply touch the color screen to enter a destination, and nüvi takes you there with 2D or 3D maps and turn-by-turn voice directions. Garmin gets its map data from NAVTEQ, a world leader in premium-quality mapping. In addition, the nüvi accepts custom (POIs), such as school zones and safety cameras and lets you set proximity alerts to warn you of upcoming POIs.
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Edition Bundle with Leather Carrrying Case and Home Charger

TomTom ONE device, suction mount, car charger, home charger with US, UK, EU and Australian plug adapters, USB 2.0 data cable, and installation CD with connection software and manual .
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nuvi + phone = nuvifone!

about stimulating news from Garmin - available later in 2008 (Q3), look for the Garmin nuvifone! With a 3.5" touch screen, and similar in shape to an iPhone, thie nuvifone will be the ultimate gadget, with 3.5G internet connectivity, Bluetooth, wi-fi, GPS with turn-by-turn directions (duh!), an internet browser, multimedia capability, camera, email access, etc. The next step is for Garmin to choose a carrier. No longer will one have to compromise between using their phone and using GPS - the Garmin nuviphone will do it all! I wonder what the battery life will be on this baby...

GPS phones set to drop in price

Chipset manufacturers are developing solutions that will permit the integration of GPS in mobile phones at lower costs, with significant improvements in accuracy, time-to-first-fix, and reception in indoor environments. As a consequence, the wholesale ASP (Average Selling Price) of GPS-enabled handsets will fall below US$200 by 2010, according to analysts at ABI Research.

“Recent industry developments, such as the announcement by CSR and Samsung of lower costs for GPS modules for mobile devices, will ensure that prices for GPS-enabled handsets quickly come down,” says ABI Research analyst Shailendra Pandey. “It will become more cost-effective for manufacturers to have GPS in a large proportion of devices, rather than offering it in fewer handsets; this will enable lower ASPs for devices as well.”

At present most handsets with integrated GPS are smartphones or high-end feature phones, with wholesale prices in the range of US$250 to US$500 and GPS chipset solutions for handsets have been costly (US$5 to US$10 per handset). However, GPS chipset vendors, such as CSR and SiRF, have developed solutions that will bring down the cost of integrating GPS in handsets to under US$2. Other vendors, including Broadcom, plan to integrate GPS with Bluetooth on a single-chip. Current GPS-enabled handsets typically are CDMA devices, but these solutions will also allow the integration of GPS in GSM and WCDMA handsets at much lower costs.

ABI Research predicts the global market for GPS-enabled handsets will grow from around 140 million handsets in 2007 to more than 600 million in 2012. In addition to major handset manufacturers such as Nokia, Motorola, RIM, and Samsung, smaller Asian ODMs including HTC, Quanta, and Inventec are introducing GPS-enabled devices.
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