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How about asking someone for directions? Well, you can do so now with the release of Garmin’s new nüvi 860 touted as the first portable navigation device with full menu speech recognition. In addition, the 860 nüvi comes in with other features ranging from safety camera alerts and emergency location assistance to hands free calling and photo navigation with Google Panoramio.Garmin’s nüvi 860 uses full menu speech control to make driving safer and easier. It’s now possible to keep both hands on the wheel and tell the nüvi 860 what to do and where to go. Furthermore, with the speech control and a Bluetooth link to your phone the nüvi 860 makes calling even safer as it allows you to interact with your phone totally hands free.

Other features include a traffic receiver that can display up to the minute traffic information, a Bluetooth wireless technology for hands-free calling when paired with compatible phones and boasts a bright, sunlight-readable 4.3-inch colour touch screen display.

How would you like a smartphone with a GPS chip inside? You know, make all the calls you want, browse the internet and go GPS on it when you need it? It’s been done you say? How would you like a GPS with a phone chip inside? You know, stick it to your car, drive around, get precise direction and make a call or send a message when you need it? This is new… A GPS that’s also a phone! Mio’s Moov 380 GPS will let you make calls and send/receive SMS texts.

The Moov 380 GPS has just passed the FCC and besides regular FCC it has a SIM card slot and a SD card slot for storage. Does this mean that Mio have their first Moov phone? More good news for you, the Moov 380 will have data speeds between 2.5G and 3G.

Does this mean you can pack your Mio GPS with a pay as you go SIM card? You know, just in case you forget your cell phone at work? Unfortunately not. It seems that you would need a full voice plan from a wireless carrier to activate the Moov 380 phone. Which means that in case you aren’t planning to get a second voice plan you will have to share your SIM between your regular phone and the Moov 380.

via Mio

The day we’ve been waiting for has finally arrived. Just a little two hours ago, Steve Jobs started his keynote. This was a sold out event with over 5k people present and millions of people worldwide watching almost live pictures and video coverage.

Finally, after a year, there’s a phone that beats the iPhone. We will call it the 3G iPhone.Some of the rumors about the 3G iPhone came through and some didn’t. Before actually talking about the iPhone 2, I am going to let you enjoy some of the live pictures, courtesy of Engadget.

GPS devices have been popular for quite a while now. MIO is adding to its popularity by releasing the K1 Leap HandHeld GPS phone designed with the ever popular GPS functionality in mind. This dual-sided device features a GPS navigation system in one side and a phone on the other.

The details for this product is not yet clear but we do know that it comes powered with a Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional operating system and has a 400Mhz Samsung 2443 processor with 64MB RAM.

It’ll be displayed at the 2008 Computex show in Taiwan - June 3rd to June 7th.

MIO K1 HandHeld GPS Phone Specs:
* Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional
* supports both GPS and A-GPS
* quad band GSM/GPRS, EDGE
* 400Mhz Samsung 2443 processor
* 64MB RAM
* 2GB ROM
* 5 hours of talk time
* 320×240 pixel resolution

via: navigadget

The Nokia 500 PND we have featured last year in Mobilewhack has recently been released. Nokia’s second and newest PND is using Navteq’s updated, high-quality pan-European maps. To refresh everyone’s memories, the Nokia 500 features a 4.3″ touch screen which maximizes the Navteq maps for your usage. There’s even voice instruction capability and the functionality to view visual images of signposts and motorway exits. With the use of the recently update Navteq maps, you’re getting up-to-date information on your personal navigation device.