Category: Satellite Navigation systems
Mio launch Cyclo 300 and 305 HC cycling navigation systems
The summer sun is finally out, and if you're looking to make the most of our inevitably brief seasonal respite from the cold, you may well be planning to get on your bike for a leisurely cycle this coming Bank…
Q&A: Telmap and the future of location-based advertising
With print media slowly dying, so too is the effectiveness of print advertising space. Increasingly, advertisers are turning to the digital domain to tout their wares. Sitting at the forefront of this wave are Telmap, whose location-based advertising systems…
Stephen Fry to direct drivers in new TomTom sat nav voice pack
Tech fan Stephen Fry has become the latest celebrity to lend his voice to TomTom's range of sat navs. For £7.95 drivers can have the Black Adder star direct them down the nation's motorways, downloading to several compatible navigation systems….
Review: TomTom GO LIVE 1000 £199
If you do a lot of driving like I do then you need a decent sat nav that will not only get you from A to B, but will make sure that you get to B before A has…
Magellan return to the UK with eXplorist GPS range
Magellan have marked their return to UK stores by launching the new eXplorist GPS range, looking to earn a place in every outdoor adventurer's rucksack. Four new models have been revealed, with the entry-level model being the eXplorist GC. A…
MIO launch new Spirit Sat Nav range
MIO have launched their new Spirit Sat Nav range this week, comprised of four new models. The Spirit 480, 485, 685 and 687 are all out now, available from Tesco, Argos and direct from MIO. The range is split down…
REVIEW: Telmap 5 sat nav app for Android
The advent of the smartphone has been heralded by many as ringing the death knell for the dedicated sat nav, as app makers increasingly build affordable software alternatives to costly mapping hardware. Telmap 5 looks to leverage the advantages of smartphones, offering on-the-go downloads of routes, rather than pre-installed maps.
We are too reliant on GPS, research warns
Everything from computer synchronisation to ship navigation is being linked to GPS signals, and we may be becoming too reliant on these systems. This is the warning from the Royal Academy of Engineering, which has issued a report warning…
Ford Focus Park Assist – taking the pain out of parallel parking
At the weekend those nice folk at Ford took us out to Madrid to race cars around a test track and look over their new Ford Focus. So what I hear you say has a new car to do…
Mio launch Spirit V575 Sat-Nav / TV combo
Long car journeys are always fraught with two potentially day-ruining possibilities; getting lost on some backwater-sidestreet miles away from civilisation and the mind-numbing, deep-vein thrombosis inducing boredom of being crammed for hours into a back seat. Mio are looking to…
