TomToms new GPS releases are trying to keep your hands on the wheel where they belong instead of on the device with the GO 2405 and 2505 GPS devices.
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Robert Ziegler, was doing what most people would do, driving his car and following the instructions of his GPS. The only problem? His GPS led him to a road where he couldn’t get out.
Ziegler kept hoping that he’d be brought back to the main road but the GPS kept saying to go forward. It wasn’t until he couldn’t go forward or turn back around, did he realize the diddily he got himself in. Stuck on top of a mountain, he called for help and got flown out via helicopter (the car too!). A fireman likened the road Ziegler got stuck on as a “glorified goat track”.
It speaks to our growing dependence on gadgets that make life super easy like GPS.
NEWS
An Android game that secretly harvests GPS data has been discovered on the Android Market by security firm Symantec.
The free game called Tap Snake was identified by the company on 12 August and announced in a blog post on Monday after it had updated its antivirus signature to identify the newly classified Trojan as AndroidOS.Tapsnake.
The app appears as a classic game of Snake, but once installed and registered, it will periodically send location reports to a remote server, according to Symantec. However, in order to access the location updates, the snooping software requires a counterpart app called GPS Spy to be installed on the ‘attacker’ handset.
GPS maker Magellan might be getting into the iPhone accessory business, but they haven’t forgotten the handheld GPS market. The company just announced three new additions to their eXplorist line of products, the 510, 610, and 710. Ranging from $350 to $550 they offer an upper range of products above the company’s $200 geocaching focused eXplorist GC.
The big news with these models is that each has a 3.0-inch touch-sensitive screen and a 3.2MP camera that geo-tags photos and videos when they are taken. All
You’d have thought “forget about TomTom or Navigon, since Pioneer is offering a free GPS app for the iPhone”. But don’t get it wrong, the Pioneer’s free GPS iPhone app, AVIC Feeds, is meant for syncing with any one of the two models of the in-dash Pioneer GPS units, AVIC-U310BT and AVIC-Z110BT.
In short, the Pioneer AVIC Feeds is just a companion app which needs to work with any one of the in-dash GPS units mentioned above. The app would be useful for the passengers to use an iPhone to help read the directions for the driver. So the dr