Garmin nuMaps Guarantee Garmin announced today a new program we’ve been hoping for, ever since they eliminated their map update policy. Although not available until October 15, and it only applies to devices purchased after August 17th, if a new map is available within 60 days of purchasing a “new Nuvi or Zumo”, you will now be entitled [...]

Garmin Discontinued Status Update: shortly after “going to press”, Garmin released their nuMaps Guarantee program. Garmin has begun discontinuing some of the older Nuvi models. In one way, it makes us shed a tear since much of the success of personal navigation devices is due to these models– but on the other hand the list of available models was [...]

NAVIGON 7200T The NAVION 7200T makes its debut today, promising a new top of the line benchmark for NAVIGON. NAVIGON is joining the ranks of TomTom and Garmin introducing a device that not only speaks to you– but you can speak to the GPS. Speech recognition, aka voice recognition allows the user to speak the address they [...]

PN-40 update Just a quick note to tag some readers that I’ve updated my DeLorme PN40 page with a new video showing satellite reception test results.

TomTom PRO Series, PRO 4000 PRO 8000 TomTom announced a new series of devices today, the TomTom PRO 4000 and the TomTom PRO 8000 series. (And no, we are not talking about the GO 940 LIVE product we expect soon. ) You can think of the PRO 4000 as being like a XL 330 and the PRO 8000 as being like [...]

DeLorme PN-40 to get Subscription Maps We talked quite a bit about the DeLorme PN-40 when it was quasi announced just over a month ago. With “Fall” coming quicker than many of us hope, we’re starting to get more details (and hands-on!) with the “40″. Today we’ve learned that the 40 will make adding on all of those supplemental map types [...]

Live Updates from Brightkite New on GPSReview.net…. Live updates! A few times per year I go out and attend trade shows to see the latest gear and meet with industry reps. Covering those shows has always been a challenge in the past. Most of what we see and hear are short juicy tidbits of info that often don’t warrant [...]

From the Forums Friday 2008-08-01 We saw an interesting debate this week about manufacturers who do, and do not, include printed manuals with their devices. I could go either way on the argument. I suspect most people don’t spend much time with the manual, and hopefully they shouldn’t need to. So in that respect let’s be eco friendly and include [...]

NAVIGON FreshMaps Summer 2008 Update Since it was announced, I’ve been a big fan of NAVIGON’s FreshMaps program. Basically, pay a single price now of what most other GPS companies charge for a single map update, and get up to 12 map updates over three years for that single price. If you are a subscriber, a new map update has [...]

Garmin Nuvifone Delayed Until 2009 If you were hoping to get your hands on that fancy new Garmin Nuvifone soon– I’ve got some bad news. While originally anticipated for a release by the end of September, rumors had been circling around that the Q3 date would not be met, but that they would appear just in time for the holidays. [...]