Garmin introduced the Nuvi 350 Pocket Vehicle GPS Navigator and Personal Travel Assistant in 2005, the price back then was almost $900.
Now you can get your hands on this compact navigation device for $378.50 on Amazon.com
The Garmin Nuvi has 700MB storage, screen with QVGA resolution, SD card slot and features like GPS navigator, MP3/audiobook player, photo viewer, and world travel clock.
This Garmin GPS is preloaded with City Navigator NT V.8 with maps of U.S., Canada, and Puerto Rico.
Measurements are 3.87 x 2.91 x 0.87 inches (W x H x D).
Source: I4U
We see a variant on this story about once a month: A GPS system told me to drive my car into a lake. A GPS system told me to run my car into a building. A GPS system told me to make endless U-turns and eventually I ran out of gas. This time, a British woman trusted her GPS when it told her to drive her car onto a set of train tracks. When the train smashed into her car it was carried half a mile down the line. The driver escaped without injury (as she wasn’t in the car when it was hit).
The good news is that the driver wasn’t completely daft: She didn’t actually drive along the train tracks as if it was a road. Rather, she came to a metal gate market with a red circle, got out of her car, opened the gate, drove forward onto the tracks, then got out to open another gate blocking the way, only then noticing the locomotive bearing down on her.
Every GPS system includes countless warnings about using the device responsibly, something to the effect of checking for real road conditions and using common sense when following the instructions of a GPS device. Remember that GPSes are not infallible: They make the best guess about how to get from point A to point B the same way you would if you were looking at a map of a foreign area. And GPS maps can often be two to five years out of date, especially when displaying points of interest like restaurants and gas stations.
Source: Yahoo! Tech
Last year, according to the Consumer Electronics Association, sales of G.P.S. units topped $800 million.
LG Electronics is entering the consumer market for navigation devices in the United States with the LN740, LN735 and LN730. The LN740, available for about $450, comes with a 90-day free trial of live traffic information through Traffic.com, as well as a four-inch screen; the 735 ($350), and the 730 ($300) have 3.5-inch displays.
LG packs in just about all the accessories needed, including a car charger, an AC adapter, a car mount and an antenna for those places where satellite reception is poor. All units come loaded with mapping software from Navteq.
The devices play MP3 files and display photos loaded via an SD memory card slot.
While the units are primarily for car navigation, you can get the major tourist destination in a pedestrian setting.
Source: The New York Times
