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What GPS-app do you use on your iPhone? I installed one from MotionX that set me back around $3. But now we have another option, thank to TomTom with its new turn-by-turn GPS navigation. After a long and massive development, finally the TomTom’s app for iPhone is ready for iPhone 3.0 OS. And luckily TomTom also offers a “car kit” to hold the iPhone on the dashboard.

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Sanyo has two new Gorilla in-dash car GPS devices which boast 7” QVGA touchscreen and an improved GUI and 3D maps. The devices are NVA-GS1609FT and NVA-GS1409DT, and both features Sanyo Eco Drive and equipped with 16GB SSD and 8GB SSD respectively.

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The new Oregon 550 series has been announced by Garmin in two models including the standard 550 and the advance 550t (which features preloaded 100K topo maps for the entire U.S. in state-of-the-art 3D elevation perspective). These touchscreen handheld GPS devices comes fuly loaded with a 3-inch, sunlight-readable display, a 3.2 megapixel digital camera with 4x digital zoom, waterproof chassis, 850MB of internal storage and USB connectivity.

The upcoming Garmin Oregon 500 has been displayed on handtec online store. It’s mentioned to come soon, but not sure when. This Oregon 500 features a rugged, touchscreen along with a built-in basemap with shaded relief, a high-sensitivity receiver, barometric altimeter, electronic compass, microSD™ card slot, picture viewer and more.

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Amazon start selling the new Magellan RoadMate 1470 GPS for $230 and it’s currently in stock. Coming with wide 4.7-inch color touchscreen and ultra-thin design, the device offers maps of United States, Canada, and Puerto Rico with 6 million PoI. Highlights: multi-destination routing, highway lane assist, spoken street names, AAA TourBook, and Roadside Assistance menu.

Previously only available on the high-end TomTom GO series, now the TomTom’s innovative IQ Routes™ Technology and Advanced Lane Guidance feature also available on the TomTom ONE 140 and TomTom XL 340. Scheduled to be available in the U.S. and Canada this month with pricing starts at $180, both devices has additional features such as Full maps of North America including Mexico, 7 million POI, TomTom Map Share™ technology, and more.

The new iNAV K3 3D GPS device was introduced to the Korean market by Thinkware. Coming with 7-inch WVGA(800 x 480 resolution) LCD, this low-end sat nav powered by 900Mhz CPU, 256MB of RAM and 512M ROM, 8GB SDHC memory card, and supports SiRF V6(Instant FixⅡ). It also offers DMB, video player, mp3 playback, game, and car diary function to entertain you.

Excellent! By sporting Sat Nav systems (a satellite navigation device) in your cars now, you are not going lost again when you voyage around in entire UK. This device could help you to find where do you want go, avoid accidents, and get easier to find what services and places whilst you need on your travels. Sat Nav systems can calculate your position by sending signals to GPS which orbits the earth and relate to a road map by calculating your position to within 10 meters.