Palm Treo 800w is the new GPS enabled handheld out there. Even though its only rumors so far the expected specs are as follows:
In addition to P320 and ZX1 Asus seems to have another PDA phone up their sleeves. The new P560.
Asus P560 should be marketed next June for approximately 500 €. It will be shipped with the GPS navigation kit including the mounts, car charger, and the iGO 6 navigation software with regional European maps preloaded on a 512MB memory card.
P560 will use Windows Mobile 6.1 as well as the new touch screen interface.
Main features of Asus P560:
Verizon announced today that VZ Navigator Version 4 is now available on select phones and can provide live traffic information in about 75 major cities across the U.S. Also in the new version of VZ Navigator you can expect 3D rendering of maps, movie and events finder, weather reports and forecasts, and gas prices at nearby gas stations.
To see a list of compatible phones and list of cities with traffic info see the press release. VZ Navigator 4 costs $10 per month or $3 daily.
Sony Ericsson P5i Paris pictures was recently leaked on the internet and from what we could gather it looks like Paris will have an embedded GPS receiver. More than likely this will be an A-GPS chip just like the one on N95.
Other features of the Sony Ericsson P5i Paris include:
Instinct vs. iPhone: Pinpointing your exact location…
Hmmm, somewhere in this ginormous circle… Instinct wins!
GSmart MW700 is a pretty recent addition to GPS enabled Windows Mobile phones. This ones integrates a SiRF Star III GPS receiver chip. The bottom right button is actually a dedicated key for activating the satellite navigation but GSmart MW700 does not seem to have a pre-installed navigation software. Here is an unboxing video:
HTC Diamond is supposed to be revealed at a press event this upcoming Tuesday but some images and the specs have already been leaked to the media somehow. Here is the latest:
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:
We hope to see this in the U.S. soon… via
It looks like Apple is readying iPhone for GPS support. The device emulator included with iPhone SDK for application developers includes hints that the company has added support for GPS to the platform. We have no way of telling whether this would be an add-on device, an embedded GPS chip, or an A-GPS chip from Qualcomm but whatever it is the software is ready for it:
As discovered by user Steffen Voigt, the locationd component of the current iPhone emulator includes references to NMEA. NMEA is a data specification for communication between various location sensing devices, particularly GPS units.
locationd also makes direct references to satellite-gathered information, with strings mentioning satellite status, latitude, speed, magnetic variation, etc. Other strings mention GPS time, type, position and accuracy… iphoneatlas
Airis T482 is a PDA GPS phone that will hit the market in France as early as this week. You will be able to purchase it wit or without the GPS navigation software - CoPilot Live which developed by ALK Technologies.
Airis T482 has quadband GSM (850/900/1800/1900 MHz), GPRS and EDGE, runs on a Marvell PXA270 processor at 416MHz and there’s a second processor called Philips Grangonfly SS6120. T482 will come with 128MB of ROM and 64MB of RAM. It is very light weighing only 165 grams and measuring 125×62x14 mm.
More specs include a 3.2″ QVGA screen, 2MP digital camera, and microSD card extension slot. The integrated GPS receiver chip is SiRFStar III, the other two antennas are for bluetooth and Wi-Fi. Oh, there’s an FM tuner too.
Airis T482 has a 1500mAh battery that should allow for 250 hours in standby-PDA mode, 4 hours in GSM mode.
If you choose to get it without the GPS navigation software (why would any Navigadget reader do that?) Airis T482 will cost you 400 €. Add in the CoPilot Live 7 software and maps for France, you’re looking at 424 €. If you want maps for all of Europe then the price is 478 €… read »