Archive for the ‘Sat Navs & GPS’ Category

Garmin Recalling Nuvi Products

SatNav manufacturer Garmin have identified potential overheating issues with a series of it’s in-car satnav systems. Emails have been sent out by major manufacturers including Amazon, informing customers that a recall will be taking place due to some units being possible fire hazards.
What we know is that a certain third party battery supplier that Garmin [...]

Brian Blessed? In my TomTom?

It’s more likely than you think.
However, the likelihood of using that joke again is zero.
After an epic slog and Facebook campaign, the glorious man Brian Blessed is now going to reside in your TomTom, munching gigantic hams and generally pondering things… well, in digital form that is.
After his hilarious run on Japanese game show Ultimate [...]

TomTom shows you the way to the Dark Side

Well, this tickles our Nerd bones more than it probably should, but to celebrate the fact that today is May the 4th (…. geddit!) TomTom have teamed up with those crazy Star Wars fellas to release a Darth Vadar Voice pack for all of its TomTom units.
And to just tickle your funny bones some more, [...]

TomTom reveal the TomTom Go 1000 Satnav

TomTom has unveiled its latest GPS Sat Nav unit and what it expects will become the latest flagship satnav, the TomTom Go 1000.
The TomTom Go 1000 is the latest handset from the GPS giant but is the company’s first GPS unit to use a capacitive touchscreen, which enables it to support multitouch and is much [...]

Mio Navman out 3 new SatNavs

Since 2008 Mio have been the silent workhorse of the SatNav community but today the company out a trio of new SatNav’s for consumers.
The Mio Navman 470, 475 and 575 are all IQ route based satellite navigation systems which means that routes will be adapted to suit the time of day, thus cutting out lengthy [...]

Hands on with the MotoNav TN700

Since the MotoNav TN500 and the TN700 were announced at the CES Las Vegas show in January, we have been pretty excited to get our hands on some of the features and to see how it works. Well, we had our wish fulfilled whilst at MWC in Barcelona last week as we were able to [...]

The Powermat: The future of charging?

At the Mobile World Congress 2010 Event the GadgetHelpline and DemoDone.com team were able to stop by the Powermat stand to get a good look at their ingenious new charging system.
See the video below for a view of some of the features.

The Powermats have been available since September in the US but over here in [...]

Nokia Ovi maps now completely free

Nokia is now providing its Nokia Ovi maps navigation software is now free to Nokia users on 10 of the latest phones. This change is with immediate effect and Nokia re classing it as a ‘freemium’ which is sure to be a new buzzword for Nokia over the coming years.
The Ovi maps software will be [...]

Airnergy: THE futuristic charging solution

Some of the stars of this year’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas have reportedly been the range of wireless charging solutions that have come to light within the past few months. Here in the UK, it is a product named Power Mat that has become the most recognised of these solutions, however some consumers [...]

Google Offer Turn-by-Turn Navigation For Free

One of the great consumer revolutions of recent years is the turn-by-turn in-car GPS navigation system which we often call “satnav”. When mobile phones started including integrated GPS chips in them then a whole new area of satnav applications opened up. If you remember earlier this year TomTom started selling their navigation software for the iPhone. Now Google is doing an incredible thing, it is giving away turn-by-turn GPS navigation, with voice guidance, for free in its Google Maps for mobiles software.