The Knight Rider GPS by Mio

Sept. 22, 2008   1 Comment  

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We teamed with Boston.com to review eight new GPS units

Navigon 2100 max car GPS

Sept. 19, 2008   3 Comments  

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Blast teamed with Boston.com and tested nine of the latest, greatest portable car GPS units recently to see what the easiest way was to get from point A to point B. The results surprised us and will be available on Boston.com in the coming days. We tested the Garmin Nuvi 880 and TomTom Go 930. [...]

Harman/Kardon GPS-510na

March 28, 2008   Leave a Comment  

Harman/Kardon has been busting out plenty of consumer electronics lately, and their GPS models, if priced right, are seeming like they serve up a viable alternative to the big two brands. The “Guide+Play” GPS-510na is a widescreen choice that handles navigation, traffic with a built in TMC receiver, text-to-speech instructions and audio/video playback with SD [...]

New Kenwood car stereos have Garmin

March 24, 2008   2 Comments  

Garmin announced Monday that it will provide GPS navigation to Kenwood’s 2008 lineup of in-dash car electronics. “We have been very pleased with Kenwood’s success in selling Garmin-equipped units since we started our partnership in 2006, and we’re expecting even greater things in 2008,” said Dan Bartel, Garmin’s vice president of worldwide sales.  ”We have [...]

New Garmins: one’s big, one’s fit, and one listens

Jan. 4, 2008   Leave a Comment  

Garmin nuvi 800 Series

The latest generation of Garmin GPS devices being unveiled next week at CES show three distinct characteristics: first a logical progression to speech recognition, then a clearly strong partnership with Microsoft, and finally a sense that smaller isn’t always better. The Garmin n¼vi 800 Series models are the new kings of the field. They build [...]