CSR just announced that their SiRFstarIV GPS receiver chip is providing location capabilities for Samsung’s latest Galaxy S II smartphone. What’s most interesting with CSR’s technology in this architecture is that the designer anticipated that …
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BMW uses GPS to predict your shifts
BMW says they are in later stages of developing a transmission system that uses GPS data to predict your upcoming shifts. Parts of this system include the Dynamic Stability Control (DSC) system, and the GPS navigation system.
DSC collects data real t…
new GLONASS/GPS receiver from SkyTraq
SkyTraq from Taiwan just came out with S4554 GNS-LP, a new low power GLONASS and GPS receiver. This new chip can track 88 satellites at once and has a 29 second cold start TTFF (time to first fix). Once locked in it can work with signals at -159dBm, an…
Kenwood’s new lineup of GPS navigation + multimedia products
At CES 2011 last week in Las Vegas Kenwood introduced four new in-dash GPS navigation + multimedia units where navigation was handled by Garmin.
The top of the line unit was the DNX7180 which is a double-DIN device that has lane assistance, junct…
Thinkware announced new iNavi Read R100
Korean Thinkware just announced a new iNavi in-dash GPS navigation system. The new model is called iNavi Ready R100 and it uses a 1GHz processor (Cortex A8) with 512MB of RAM.
It has two different screen sizes, a 7″ model and an 8″ model. The rea…
smartphones killing GPS navigation market
I guess we really should’ve said “GPS enabled smartphones are taking considerable market share from standalone GPS navigation makers” but a sensational title is always more fun. But either way future is not looking great for GPS navigation manuf…
MiTAC extends contract with Tele Atlas
Tele Atlas, one of the leading digital map makers in the world, and MiTAC, parent company of Mio, Navman, partially Magellan branded products just recently announced extension of their partnership to continue using Tele Atlas maps in their personal na…
Garmin GTU 10 live GPS tracking device
Garmin seems to be experimenting with a new live GPS tracking device called GTU 10 as we caught a glimpse of it in the FCC docs. It is not announced yet as they have a request to keep external, and internal photos, users manual, and test setup photos …
enNAVI HD
There’s really no keeping up with the hardware Korean’s throw into their GPS navigation systems. This latest one is from enNavi HD which runs off of a 1.2Ghz CPU, 7″ HD screen with 1920×1080 resolution. That’s pretty decent but the 256MB of RAM and the Windows CE 6.0 OS don’t really keep up with the [...]
new Pioneer GPS navigation systems
Pioneer of Japan just updated their Carrozzeria series with two new models. The AVIC-T05 and AVIC-T07.
Both GPS navigation systems offer a One-Seg TV Tuner. They support various multimedia formats such as WMA, MP3, AAC, WAV, WMV, MP4, AVI and include…
