Sony today announced a sharp break with its past insistence on in-house GPS and showed two AV and navigation systems that use TomTom GPS. The six-inch XNV-660BT-770BT and seven inches XNV use TomTom mapping in IQ Routes, the fastest route to transport distance is not only historic, and community-source points of interest by MapShare based attacks and bring lane assist. Either unit has a full set of maps for North America replaced with a year’s worth of card upgrades.

Although separated by screen sizes, both have a 800×480 resolution, support Bluetooth calling, a rear wire USB port for an iPhone or iPod connection and virtual 5.1-channel surround audio. The 660BT is relatively easy to hide with a solid display and hard buttons below the touchscreen, the 770BT has to keep touch sensitive physical button and a motorized screen like on Nokia 7705 Twist Phone. Both have media playback features for music and video, as well as a picture-in-picture sound control.

Sony expects both mapping systems delivered in November, starting at $ 1,000 for the 660BT and moving up to $ 1300 for the 770BT.

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TomTom has just only the TomTom HD Traffic 4.0, reporting the situation 200% more traffic jams during rush hour, while one reported on its obligation to provide information to the TomTom device only a few minutes after a problem on the streets.

Existing users of TomTom have not shell out any additional costs, such as TomTom says that the current HD Traffic customers can immediately experience the benefits without the need for all software upgrades like on Nikon D7000 16.2MP Camera. Well, how about for customer service? He should drive the satisfaction rating by a notch and you have yet another reason to buy a TomTom if you live in the UK.

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Another week, another continent. As I write this (on my trusty IPAD), we are in Europe rays. The Fiesta World Tour 2010 The New World left behind and is deep in the direction of the Old World. The Middle East is on the horizon and Asia is not far off. The last week in the U.S. and Canada gadget was nothing but trouble. to do the once beautiful maiden MiFi was a liability for us all when it comes to a job it was intended, had been refused and until then, make it shiny: be a mobile Wi-Fi hotspot in our Ford Fiesta.

Sleep is a luxury on a global drive so I do not enjoy wasting an hour to the useless Virgin Mobile help desk, only to be told their server was down. The advice from the same place the next morning was the unit with a paper clip to start. Not easy at 70 miles an hour on I-95. But for the last day of the U.S. leg of the MiFi finally started and found myself (about my IPAD) is a great place for breakfast between Boston and New York: The Cosmic Omelet in Manchester CT. Then we helped lead us to (if the TomTom in-car navigation system and not) in the place  as well as TomTom XL 350TM Car GPS that I had to Google Earth from the movie to find our arrival in The Big Apple.

The SPOT-Tracker uses GPS and satellite signals, you can be our location, where we go. The second technical hiccups came when I had given up trying to follow my SPOT Satellite Messenger for you guys to ignite our progress. I called FindMeSpot 800 number, only to be told that I had bought from BestBuy in LA, was a unit recalled. The spot FedExed PR people to me in time for me to get it going for the last few miles of the U.S. trip. It is now well and runs and you can see where we were on. But I will turn off when we are more in sensitive areas.

Leg 2 started in Ireland, on the other side of the pond, at the Lisdoonvarna Matchmaking Festival. (Do not ask.) I would for a gadget of any kind of Guinness Dublin hopes but only if we have in Wales has the gadgets start boot up. Welsh is a language revitalized, and it is thriving so well that even a Welsh version of Scrabble. There are no Z’s, but you get the maximum score if the A. We can play at the station of the city with what I believe is the longest URL in the world.

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Remember Hansel and Gretel? Well, you do not, as they fall and bread crumbs everywhere as part of your route, let technology help you this time in the form of GPS homing device backtrack as well as TomTom XL 350TM Car GPS.

It is easy to use, all you have to do is to click on the button if you track the car where it will help you, your steps back to your vehicle once you are ready to make your rendezvous.

Certainly this is not a piece of technology that helps you train your brain, where it costs you $ 79.95. It has been touted to be fairly accurate, but we would prefer to get feedback from current owners of the unit instead.

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Buy GPS-device navigation system or buy the application for iphone? It is a dilemma many people face today, thinking about the navigation systems for their cars. There are several key factors that need to think about when trying to make this choice:

Screen Size – iPhone has a 3.5 “widescreen display against GPS-systems, which are about 4.3″. GPS manufacturers also offer large screen sizes up to 7 “. Bigger is always better, goes to the point of GPS-devices here.

Price – TomTom on the iPhone is $ 100 + plus additional costs to get the mount (which will include the updated GPS-chip and speaker), the total cost of adding a true navigation to your iPhone will cost about $ 160. There are a ton of good quality GPS-navigation systems, which cost less, or about $ 160. Thus, in terms of price, GPS devices dislodge iphone as well.
Portability – people always carry their phones, so that even when you travel you will always have a phone, so your navigation. Sometimes people forget to carry their GPS-system during the trip, which is a pain and had to rely on other methods to get around when they arrived at their destination. Due to the easy-to-use and portability, and no need to hold an additional device to the phone, we will give iPhone this time.

Multitasking – When using the iPhone for navigation, you lose the ability to use it for other things like computer games or using other applications. IPhone is a versatile tool and should not be tied only to one function. We provide GPS navigation devices, point to it, because they are only one and only one, navigation.

Based on these factors, obviously, GPS-navigation systems have the advantage over Iphones, because they are designed to do one thing, what they are doing very well. If I were you, I would buy a GPS-system and application navigation.

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