NaviGadget

JVC recently added the 7-inch, double-din KW-NX7000 Navigation/DVD/CD Receiver to its 2008 line-up. The unit’s faceplate is detachable and features a 7-inch low-reflection touch screen monitor. Also included in KW-NX7000 is a proximity sensor which illuminates the relevant keys when your hand approaches such as during navigation, DVD and movie playback to reduce distraction. Also now there’s a built-in memory so you can use other multimedia sources and navigate simultaneously.

Here are some other highlights:

• built-in NAVTEQ traffic RDS tuner
• over 12 Million Points of Interest
• text-to-speech system and voice guidance in seven languages
• headphone surround sound for Dolby Digital 5.1 content

The MSRP was recently announced to be $1300.

TomTom just made the availability of the new TomTom GO 930 and GO 730 official for North America.

Here is how much these new models will cost you:

• TomTom GO 930T: $550
• TomTom GO 930: $500
• TomTom GO 730T: $500
• TomTom GO 730: $450

The main difference between the 930 and 730 is that 930 offers maps of United States, Canada and Europe, whereas 730 only has United States and Canada installed on its internal memory.

TomTom ONE 130 is the new entry level GPS navigation system from TomTom.

Unlike 130S it doesn’t have the text-to-speech but the rest of the specs are identical.

• 3.5 inch TFT LCD anti-glare touch screen, 4:3 format, QVGA, 320 x 240 pixels, 64k colours
• Connectivity: mini-USB, RDS-TMC (via mini-USB)
• Internal Lithium-ion battery (up to 3 hours operation)
• Compatibility: Windows and Mac OS X 10.3 and above
• Car speed linked volume
• Enhanced TomTom speaker system
• EasyPort mount
• QuickGPSfix
• Automatic day/night mode
• Password protection
• Compatibility with TomTom HOME

TomTom ONE 130 will be available next month and will cost you $200. Here is how the new EasyPort mount works:

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TomTom’s other new addition to their lineup continues with TomTom ONE 130S. This one will cost you $250, have a 3.5″ screen, text-to-speech feature, and the new their selling point: the windshield mount that folds on to the device.

Again, ONE 130S, is supposed to be available as early mid May and will be preloaded with maps of U.S. and Canada.

TomTom XL 330 is quite similar to XL 330S which we just mentioned. The only difference is that it lacks text-to-speech feature which can save you $50. Worth it?

Priced at $250 here are the rest of the features for TomTom XL 330:

• 4.3 inch color TFT LCD anti-glare touch screen, 16:9 format, WQVGA, 480 x 272 pixels
• Dimensions: 118 x 83 x 25 mm
• Weight: 186 grams
• Connectivity: mini-USB, RDS-TMC (via mini-USB)
• Internal Lithium-ion battery (up to 3 hours operation)
• Compatibility: Windows and Mac OS X 10.3 and above
• Car speed linked volume
• Enhanced TomTom speaker system
• EasyPort mount
• QuickGPSfix
• Automatic day/night mode
• Password protection
• Compatibility with TomTom HOME

TomTom today introduced a couple of new models for the XL series GPS navigation units, one of them being the new TomTom XL 330S. Priced at $300, XL 330s will have a 4.3″ touch screen, and have text-to-speech feature which can pronounce street names.

Expected to be available as early as this May, TomTom XL 330S has a renovated audio system that is louder than ever, and a new mount called EasyPort. What EasyPort does is that it folds on to your GPS navigation system while maintaining a small form factor so you don’t have a leave an empty mount on your windshield when you park your vehicle.

Asus P320 which we had announced back in March just made it to FCC. This means we can expect to see in the States as soon as this year.

The specs of Asus P320 are as follows:

• SiRFStar III integrated GPS receiver
• Quad-band GSM (850/900/1800/1900), GPRS and EDGE
• TI OMAP 850 processor at 200 MHz
• TFT LCD screen with 65K colors 320×240 resolution
• 128 MB ROM and 64 MB RAM
• Bluetooth 2.0
• Mini USB
• microSD port
• 2MP digital camera
• Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional

We have no info on how much it will cost here in the U.S. but in EU it will go for 300 €… read »

GPS Tuner is an off-road navigation software for Pocket PC devices. Today they announced that they’re releasing v5.4 which adds a few nice extra features to the older version.

• ‘Open Street Map’ has been added as online map source
• ‘Google Topo (Terrain)’ has been added as online map source
• Suunto X9i data format(.sdf) handling (Import and Export) has been added
• Automatic map rotation in 90 degrees has been added (instead of flipping 180 degrees)
• Built-in camera photo can be taken and added to waypoint directly
• Waypoints can be exported via TXT output module

GPS Tuner Standard v5.4 cost $34 with one-year free upgrade. Without the free upgrade you can get it as cheap as $24. There’s also another version called GPS Tuner Geo v5.4 which adds area calculation as a feature and also one year of free upgrades: $48.

Suzuki yesterday announced that they’ll be throwing a free GPS navigation system in one and every 2009 SX4 making the Garmin GPS navigation a standard equipment for a sub $16000 vehicle for the first time.

The embedded Garmin will have a custom flip-up compartment in these Suzukis and will be called “T.R.I.P” which stands for Travel, Real-time traffic, Information and Play. It has features like Bluetooth connectivity, traffic info, and possibly MSN direct, making us a think this will be a customized version of nuvi 780 which you can pick up for $500 if you want to skip the Suzuki… read »

This sleek looking phone from Motorola apparently has GPS features and is the 3rd generation of Z8 series, called Z8m. It is currently only on display in Korea selling for about the equivalent of $500.

Other features of this slider phone include:

• 7.2Mbps HSDPA
• 2.2″ QVGA display
• 2MP camera
• 80MB memory
• microSD card slot (4GB max)
• one-touch music access
• photo viewer
• Bluetooth
• USB 2.0

We hope to see this in the U.S. soon… via