RDS-TMC GPS Gadgets and Navigation Articles

Updated August 7th, 2009 This is the "GPS week" for the Apple iPhone with yet another full "turn by turn" navigation solution announced and released, ALK's CoPilot with a UK and European version for E34 and E80 respectively. With ALK being headquartered in the US, a North American version can't be ...

Posted September 9th, 2009 Once in a while someone comes up with a great GPS related tip and this just happened again when "andrevm" posted a detailed guide to use a Garmin nuvi AIO as an external GPS receiver for a PC running GPS software, Garmin Mobile PC in his example, an unexpected "GPS Featur...

Posted August 18th, 2009 Five years after the first version of TomTom for Smartphones, the iPhone version is now available on the Appstore. It is priced at $100 for North America and $140 for Europe, in line with other GPS applications for the iphone. This version doesn't come as a suprise since...

Updated August 11th, 2009 After failed attempts by Dash in 2007 and Best Buy in 2008, and a "scaled down" (compared to Europe) GO740 for TomTom, it seems Garmin are about to launch their own "connected GPS", the nuvi 1690. Little is known about this new device for the time being other than what'...

Updated August 5th, 2009 It's now iGo's turn to become available on the Appstore as "iGO My way 2009 for iPhone", both in North American, Western European and Western+Central European versions for $80/E63, $90/E70 and $120/E90 respectively. Screenshots looks promising but some testing will be ne...

Updated July 30th, 2009 As expected, Garmin have released the third quarterly map update under the nuMaps Lifetime program and it's called "CityNavigator NT 2010.20". These new maps are likely based on the Navteq Q1/2009 release. The CN NT2010.20 maps are also available under the nuMaps Guarante...

Updated July 28th, 2009 CSR/SiRF have just announced the SiRFstarIV GSD4t architecture specifically designed for general consumer electronics (phones, cameras, gaming consoles, etc...) as it has optimizations for that type of platform : always on, micro power, RF interference "anti-jammer". Firs...

Updated July 23rd, 2009 After first being released in Europe at the end of last year, the GO 740 Live connected GPS (built-in GSM module) made it to the US, but without the novel "HD Traffic" generated from "GSM traces". Probably just as well since it has failed to convince in Europe compared to th...

Posted July 21st, 2009 Well maybe "powering" is not the exact term but based on the current results of the Team Garmin leaders on the Tour de France race, their Edge 705 certainly isn't hurting them and apparently helped finetune their training. Garmin France was kind enough to invite some of us...

Updated July 14th, 2009 Hot on the heels of the announcement at long last of "Full GPS Assisted Navigation" for the iPhone at the Apple WWDC 2009 show in early June with TomTom, other editors have been releasing navigation software...while TomTom Navigator remains unavailable. No word on what is ca...