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LG SB210 for golfers

Nov 2, 2009 fitness, gps navigation, phones 1 Comment

LG SB210 is the name of the new GPS enabled phone designed for golfers. LG SB210 is a touchscreen device announced in South Korea that comes with maps for 280 golf courses.

Nicknamed Cyon, the device also includes a G-sensor, compass, and software for counting calories so your experience on the golf course can be perfect.

Here are some more features of LG SB210:

• 3″ touch screen
• GPS
• 3MP camera
• 242MB memory
• microSD card slot
• 1000 mAh battery

For about $539 you can show off the LG SB210 to your golfing buddies. South Korea only… Read More …

Satsports GPS

Oct 16, 2009 fitness, gps navigation 1 Comment

Satsports (a name we haven’t heard before) just came out with a handheld GPS receiver called satsports gps specifically designed for activities such as running, skiing, golfing, cycling, etc. The specialty Satsports GPS is of course the software. It includes satski for skiers and snowboarders, pocket caddy for golfers, satsports log for runners, cyclists, hikers, and satsports street navigator (optional) for driving directions. It is all-weather too.

Here are some specs:

• Processor: Samsung 2440A 400Mhz
• Battery: 3.7V Li Ion 1050mAh
• OS: Windows CE 5.0
• Speaker: 1W internal speaker
• Built in Flash 256MB
• RAM – 64MB
• Dimensions: 90 x 55 x 16 mm
• Weight: 125g
• Display: touchscreen LCD – 2.7″ TFT QVGA (320 x 240)
• GPS: SiRF Star III Embedded Patch Antenna
• Applications: Satski, Pocket Caddy, Satsports Log (running & cycling), MP3 Player, Image Viewer, Video Player
• Micro SD card
• Free silicon case with built in 6hr back up battery

Satsports GPS device is a bit costly. It goes for about $490 in the U.S., or $540 CAD… two more pics after the jump. Read More …

Snooper S280 Saphire Plus

Sep 22, 2009 fitness, gps navigation, radar detector 3 Comments

We’ve mentioned the British Snooper name a few times here before. But we didn’t know they had this new 3 in 1 GPS navigation system. It is called Snooper S280 Saphire Plus and here is what it can do: 1) a good old sat nav device with maps from Navteq 2) GPS radar detector that uses the comprehensive AURA database, and 3) a golf shot saver that knows about over 2000 golf courses in Europe and provides distances to bunkers, lakes, streams, paths plus many other hazards, and a lot more.

It includes a free lifetime subscription to the Aura database and other updates for the golf courses.

Snooper S280 Saphire Plus has a 1.75″ color touch screen, voice alerts, headphone socket for motorcycle use. The device is very portable measuring 105mmx53mmx20mm.

It costs £140.

GPS apps for Palm Pre

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…

Bushnell Yardage Pro XGC

May 27, 2009 fitness, gps navigation 2 Comments

Bushnell has a new GPS range finder called Yardage Pro XGC. Amazonhas the device available for $350 – same as a few other online sellers – but no reviews yet.

One of the nice things about Bushnell Yardage Pro XGC is that it has a 2.2″ sunlight readable color screen and a battery that is supposed to last up to 16 hours. A few other features of this golf gps device includes:

• Download custom color course maps
• Distance to any point on the hole
• Stores up to 100 courses
• Scorekeeping & statistics capabilities
• Belt clip and storage pouch included
• Rechargeable Li-lon battery
• Rainproof

Pioneer NavGate AVIC-F9110BT

Apr 29, 2009 gps navigation 2 Comments

Pioneer in UK just announced a new in-dash GPS navigation + entertainment system called Pioneer NavGate AVIC-F9110BT. The unit is specifically designed for VW, Skoda and Seat vehicles.

AVIC-F9110BT has a high-resolution 5.8-inch WVGA touch screen, 2GB internal memory that stores maps of 44 European countries by TeleAtlas, and also includes 1.7million Points-of-Interests (POIs). The device has text-to-speech feature; not only for street names but even for traffic events that it receives via the TMC receiver.

Some multimedia features include the ability to watch videos from DVDs, CDs, SD cards, USB devices, control your iPod or iPhone using a special cable, and support for various audio formats. It also does bluetooth so you can relay phone conversations to your car’s stereo.

Another neat feature is the ability to customize the POI database from Google Maps using the SD card and their NavGate Feeds application.

Pioneer NavGate AVIC-F9110BT will be available starting July in 18 different vehicles:

Volkswagen
Caddy 07/2004
Eos 05/2006
Golf V plus 09/2003
Golf V 09/2003-2008
Golf VI 2008
Jetta 08/2005
Passat CC 03/2005
Passat 2008
Scirocca 2008
Tiguan 2007
Touran 03/2003
Polo 2009

Seat
Altea 05/2004
Altea XL 09/2005
Leon 12/2004

Skoda
Fabia 2009
Octavia 2009
Superb 2008

TeeShot Live: GPS app for golfers

Mar 24, 2009 gps navigation, phones, software 1 Comment

TeeShot Live is an iPhone app for golfers to improve their game. It mostly provides statistics and keeps track of your numbers such as strokes, putts, fairways, sand saves, etc.. You can keep score of up to 4 players, see how you’re doing on the same hole over time, check status for current or all rounds, and finally email scores to your buddies when you’re done.

But it’s not all stats though. You can review and download course descriptions for their site and see the distance from your last shot and to the green on courses tagged with GPS locations.

They just announced version 2.0 which can keep your GPS receiver on for a longer time to better accuracy and speed. It can even overlay satellite view of the course with each one of your shots marked.

TeeShot Live costs $20.

OnPar GPS

Jan 28, 2009 fitness, gps navigation 14 Comments

There’s a new GPS device for golfers out there called OnPar. It seems slightly more advanced than the rest; just based on the fact that OnPar has a touchscreen interface.

OnPar is basically is a touchscreen GPS finder that can help the player by providing a dynamic hole layout display and GPS positioning that provides instant distances to anywhere and remaining distance to the green, personalized club averages, and simple score and shot tracking.

OnPar can store upto 300 courses in its memory and does no membership fees or course map fees.

OnPar has a 3.5″ screen, and measures only 0.63″ in thickness. Even though the pricing is yet not revealed we know it will be available at a few specialty stores starting in early February this year.

See the product page.

G-CORE Mini Caddy

Jan 8, 2009 CES 2009, fitness, gps navigation Leave a comment

G-CORE Mini Caddy is a GPS powered range finder for golf enthusiasts. It just got announced at CES 2009 as having the first Mirasol display from Qualcomm (for true geeks out there: Mirasol Display Technology)

We don’t care too much about the display but apparently it is easily readable under direct sunlight so that’s a big plus for golfers out there. Here are the features of the G-Core Mini Caddy:

• weighs only 36 grams
• 1.2-inch bichrome mirasol display
• pre-loaded golf courses
• provides information on the outline of fairways and the locations of bunkers and hazards
• free downloads on to the 1GB memory

We do not have any information when this GPS range finder maybe released, or for how much.

garmin Approach G5

Jan 7, 2009 CES 2009, fitness, garmin, gps navigation 2 Comments

Garmin today announced Approach G5, a GPS device for golfers. It has a 3″ color touchscreen and comes with thousands of courses preloaded.

It is ready to use out of the box and there are no subscription fees. As you move around the golf course garmin Approach G5 will continuously update your position and show your distance to the target or fairways, hazards and greens.

It also lets you keep score (up to 4 people), runs on two AA batteries and is waterproof.

Expect to pay $500 for the new Garmin Approach G5.