Sep 16, 2009 gps navigation, misc news 1 Comment
Finally a concept device that is feasible. It is actually called EMIL Experience Outdoors and it is a hand-held console that is similar to a GPS receiver with e-compass. “It allows you to form and execute treasure hunts (geocaches?), biking routes and expeditions, Hunting Mr. X in the field and Scouts Games. It can also come in handy to polish your Navigational Skills.”
See more of it at yankodesign.
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Aug 8, 2009 gps navigation, phones, software, tracking 6 Comments
We just wanted to quickly talk about available GPS apps for Palm Pre, or any kind of app that uses GPS.
These include the Go To, Geocache Locator, Longtitude, GolfPinFinder, Jobr, PREtracker, Where, and of course TeleNav.
Go To: This one is for storing, and finding waypoints, and has a good looking compass too. It can get you directions to get you close to the cache and can start satellite view when you’re closer. The question is will you have a data service when you’re out in the wilderness looking for geocaches??
Geocache Locator: As you can tell from its name, Geocache Locator find all the caches around you given a certain radius. It connects to geocaching.com to do this.
Longtitude: This one updates your location on a site – more specifically your site. You’ll need to have a webserver running with certain PHP files so your friends can track you down.
GolfPinFinder: This one is just a golf gps range finder. It gets the data from BBGPSGOLF. It gets you the distance from front, center and back of the green, tee and up to 5 additional points.
Jobr: This one is job search application that gets a keyword from your and looks up your position from the built in GPS.
PREtracker: Sounds like the most useful out of it all. This one tracks your position and pace while you’re out running, hiking, biking, etc…
Where: This one looks up businesses and other points of interest around you. Again very useful. It can go into more detail such as movie times, gas prices, and traffic info stuff.
TeleNav: GPS navigation for your Palm Pre…
Jun 27, 2009 garmin, gps navigation, tracking 1 Comment
Garmin Dakota 20 is Dakota 10’s bigger brother. Announced at the same time Dakota 20 has pretty much the same appearance as Dakota 10 but when it comes to specs it hides a lot inside.
Priced only $50 more than Dakota 10, for a total of $350, you can expect the same impressive 20 hours battery life from Dakota 20. It also has a microSD card slot to store more stuff, like maps, a 3-axis compass tilt-compensated electronic compass, and a barometric altimeter. Also don’t forget about the wireless connectivity feature that lets you share waypoints, tracks, routes and geocaches wirelessly with Dakota, Oregon, Colorado and Foretrex devices.
If you’re looking for something bigger and more expensive you should check out Garmin Colorado or the Garmin Oregon series.
Wait until September for Garmin Dakota 20 to come out.
Jun 27, 2009 garmin, gps navigation, tracking 3 Comments
Garmin Dakota 10 is one of the latest outdoor GPS handheld devices from the company. Compared to the Garmin Oregon series, the Dakota 10 is a lot cheaper and lower end.
Garmin Dakota 10 has a 2.6″ color touchscreen, weighs 6.75 ounces, and runs up to 20 hours on two AA batteries. It is also built rugged, and is waterproof (IPX7). It has worldwide basemap pre-installed and comes with 850 MB of memory, which can store 1,000 waypoints, 50 routes, 2,000 geocaches and an active tracklog of 10,000 points and 200 saved tracks. We doubt you’ll run of space.
You can expect to get yours hands on a Garmin Dakota 10 starting in September for about $300.
May 10, 2009 gps navigation, tracking 8 Comments
Say hello to Geomate.jr from Apisphere. This GPS handheld is designed for geocachers that are looking for an affordable device. Priced at $70 geomate.jr comes loaded with 250000 geocache locations all over the 50 states so you can join the geocache craze as soon as you open the box.
Geomate.jr works on 2AAA batteries and lets you set one waypoint as “home” so you don’t have to worry about getting lost. The display measures 1.2″ by 1.2″ and the batteries last about 12 hours at 70 degrees. It only weighs 3.2 ounces and has a big enough loop for a carabiner so carrying around will be easy too…
The company plans on revealing this Monday morning (in a few hours) but REI already has it on sale…
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Jul 4, 2008 garmin, gps navigation 5 Comments
There’s talk over the internets that Garmin is about to release a new series of handheld GPS receivers called Garmin Oregon. The device is currently ‘out of stock’ at buy.com and does not have a picture so we don’t know what it looks like. We believe the Oregon series will slightly resemble the Colorado series but probably won’t have the touch wheel interface. It is also slightly smaller and accepts microSD cards. Here are the specs for Garmin Oregon 200:
This current model is listed for $420 and we’re sure Garmin will also announce other models from the series. In fact Amazon listed four other models briefly before they were taken down: Oregon 300, 400c, 400i and 400t and buy.com already lists Garmin Oregon 400C which is listed for $600… Read More …
Jan 26, 2008 gps navigation, magellan 7 Comments
Magellan Triton is expected to be a big hit among hikers and geocachers with its color 2.2″ screen and rugged IPX7 waterproof design. Of course the price will be one of the best selling points for Triton 300. It is only $146 at Amazon, and we bet if you wait a couple months you can get it for even cheaper.
Triton 300 is compatible with National Geographic TOPO maps, and features new Magellan VantagePoint content management software. Another nice convenient feature on the Triton 300 is the fact that it uses two AA batteries.
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Jan 11, 2008 garmin, gps navigation Leave a comment
The Garmin Colorado 300 we announced a month ago was proudly put on display at CES 2008. Colorado 300 is the base model of the new Colorado mapping handheld GPS series from Garmin and it includes worldwide basemap with shaded relief unlike the 400 models (400i, 400t, and 400c) which include specialized maps. However Colorado 300 supports SD cards so you can take any kind of map with you including street maps, topographic maps, coastal charts or inland lake data.
New on the Colorado series is the wireless sharing of waypoints, tracks, routes and geocaches with other users, and of course the new ‘rock’n roller’ input wheel which allows for one hand control of the GPS device for most functions.
Here are the specs for Colorado 300:
Jan 4, 2008 garmin, gps navigation 3 Comments
Another new Colorado from Garmin is the Colorado 400t which targets hikers and specializes in 3D elevation perspective and preloaded U.S. topographic maps. 400t will cost $600 and will offer electronic compass, barometric altimeter, SD card slot, and a picture viewer.
Another neat feature in the Colorado series is the ability to share your routes, waypoints, and geocaches with other Colorado users.
Here are some specs:
400t also has automatic routing on roads, geocaching mode, hunt/fish calendar, sun and moon information, tide tables, and area calculation.
Dec 18, 2007 gps navigation, magellan, reviews 14 Comments
Magellan Triton 1500, new from the Triton series got a short review recently and apparently the reviewer was not wow’ed with this GPS receiver handheld. The hardware wasn’t all that bad except the not-so-bright screen. But the software could be improved in many ways the review says – specially when it is faced high amounts of data:
…I transferred 120 geocaches near my sister’s house to the unit yesterday. This was apparently enough to bring the Triton to its knees, resulting in very sluggish behavior and then the screen locking up…
However if you were lucky enough to receive the sync cable in your box you would probably really like the National Geographic TOPO maps this device can display:
This is where the unit really shines. Despite any problems it may have, it’s awesome having USGS topos on your GPS screen. Compare the images below [right], showing roughly what you would see on a Triton with National Geographic TOPO! maps (left) versus what you would see on a Garmin 60CSX running Garmin MapSource TOPO U.S. It’s not quite at the same scale, but it should be enough to give you an idea of the difference.
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