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Scheduled to be released on October 20 (on Amazon), the Garmin 1690 GPS navigator features an enhanced user interface, ecoRoute, public transit mode, and text-to-speech. And for city walker, the device also equipped with optional CityXplorer maps which offers pedestrian navigation. Other highlights: Widescreen ultra-slim GPS design with 4.3-inch WQVGA touchscreen display and EDGE network connectivity; Pre-loaded with City Navigtor NT maps for North America, including more than 6 million name-searchable points of interest; Bluetooth wireless technology; Traffic receiver; public transit mode; Garmin’s nüLink services like weather forecasts, flight status, white pages, and more.

Based on Garmin’s zūmo™ 660, the BMW Motorrad Navigator IV was developed by Garmin as a motorcycle-friendly GPS navigator. Coming with 4.3-inch touchscreen, this navigator has BMW specific features such as a customized mount, preloaded BMW dealer database, unique audio and Bluetooth handling capabilities, and more.

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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Instead of moving alone, GPS manufacturer Garmin took Asus as its partner to produce Nuvifone flagship. So you will ask where the long awaited Garmin Nuvinfone going tobe? it will be rebranded as the Nuvifone G60 and Asus is allowed to claim it as the first partnership’s product.

The Nuvi 265T one of the newest and affordable GPS device from Garmin along with 265WT, and 275T. The 267T is priced at $300 and already available for pre-order on Amazon.com. Beside its main function to navigate people with Turn-by-Turn Directions, the device also offers various travel tools including image viewer, world travel clock, automatic time zone transition, currency converter, unit converter, calculator and …

I found an interesting reports about a super high-tech Green RV in the US owned by Brian Brawdy. The RV powered by solar and wind turbine that make it so eco-friendly. And for navigation, he installed Garmin ‘GPSMAP 5208‘ device. Just follow the link to see the video reports.

The new Nuvi 500 series has been announced by Garmin two weeks ago. Designed as multi-use navigator, the series are also waterproof and ruggedized to make driver, cycler, walker, or boater happier. The Device comes with 3.5″ touchscreen, removable li-ion battery, and a micro-SD card slot.

The nuvi 500 comes with pre-loaded City Navigator and topo maps of the 48 contiguous United States, Hawaii …