mocoNews.net:
Nokia (NYSE: NOK) is beefing up its rather lame mobile web portal, Nokia.mobi, by adding a new lifestyle content strand aimed at the 18-35 age bracket. Here & Now offers news from Rollingstone.com, Reuters and US Weekly, with article summaries linking through to full stories on the partners' own mobile sites. There' (Read More)
Gizmodo:
We knew Asus is looking into an Android-based cellphone but now CEO Johnny Shih has said at CES that they are thinking about doing an Android-based Eee PC, all while praising Apple for the iPhone. Maybe Asus was inspired by this hack, but the idea of a simplified, cell-enabled netbook computer—tablet please—is very appealin (Read More)
NaviGadget:
MOTOSURF A3100 is a 3G touch tablet phone with an embedded aGPS receiver. It will be available around the world beginning in Q1 2009, including Asia and Latin America. No mention of U.S. there.MOTOSURF A3100 runs Windows Mobile 6.1 software and the interface supports applications that can be accessed with the tip of a finge (Read More)
NaviGadget:
We must say the GPS navigation on the new Palm Treo Pro looks pretty sleek.
The software is provided by TeleNav and the maps are by TeleAtlas.
We don’t have much info on the usability just yet but we’ll try to have a look at it CES 2009.
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All Points Blog:
Silicon India's headline included the term "sucks" but Vice President, Partner and Developer Program Marc Naddel, who gave the keynote, didn't apparently say that. The statement above was made at during a panel discussions on LBS at COMSNETS-09, an international conference on communication systems and networks, being held i (Read More)
Gizmodo:
Garmin just dropped a couple new GPS units on us, the 855 and 855T. Both of 'em bring lane assist and voice control together and cost as much as a used car. The two units are essentially the same, with the one difference being that the 855T has MSN Direct, which loads your maps up with local businesses, weather, traffic, ne (Read More)
Gizmodo:
Rand McNally has been in the travel biz so long, I wouldn't be surprised if they made maps of Pangaea. With that kind of history, you know you can trust their Navigon GPS travel guides. Specifically, Navigon has partnered with Rand McNally to bring Scenic Routes and City Guides to their GPS devices. Rand McNally’s Scenic (Read More)
Engadget:
Garmin's gone all diversity-happy on us this morning with three new chock-full-o-features portable GPS devices. The nüvi 885T is the real flagship here, offering speech recognition, lane assist junction view and MSN Direct traffic info and other cloud-based services. The unit centers on a 4.3-inch 480 x 272 touchscreen, and (Read More)