Posts from — December 2007

44% Off The Hewlett Packard Bluetooth-Enabled iPAQ 310 GPS Navigator, Only $250

by Justin

One of the best GPS units of 2007, the Hewlett Packard iPAQ 310 Bluetooth-enabled portable GPS is on sale for $250 at Amazon.Â Regularly priced at $449, you’re saving a remarkable 44% off the suggested price.

The iPAQ 310 uses a SiRFtitan 600MHz dual core processor with 128Mb of onboard RAM, the most powerful processor currently used in GPS, to quickly calculate routes and power an amazing 3D graphical interface on a 4.3 inch widescreen with 800×480 pixels.Â The user interface is based on Windows Mobile 5.0 and features text-to-speech and Bluetooth for hands-free telephone calls.Â It’s pre-loaded map database uses TeleAtlas maps with complete coverage of the United States and Canada and an astonishing 12 million points of interest. Â

You can even turn the iPAQ 310 into a portable entertainment center with the use of an SD card, supporting video, MP3 audio, pictures, and even 5 pre-installed games from GameBox Classics.

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December 31, 2007 No Comments

Need To Know What Time That Store’s Open Until? Try WhatsOpen Beta

by Justin

This may not be a straight out GPS unit, but it is definitely a useful application for the GPS obsessed and for those that aren’t. VentureBeat has been covering a self-funded startup, WhatsOpen, that went live in public beta a couple nights ago. The startup, described as a “secretive local search company”, lets you type in a store you’re looking for along with your current location and gives back a Google Maps mashup that displays a list of relevant store, their respective hours of operation, their phone numbers and their distance from the city center. It’s database of business listings and some of the accompanying information is more extensive than either Yahoo or Google, giving WhatsOpen a definite advantage over its much bigger competitors.

The company apparently also offers an iPhone application and are also currently working on a Google Android application that will be GPS-enabled giving more accurate results as to the distance of a store in relation to your current location. The beta is currently available in the United States, China, and Europe.

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December 31, 2007 No Comments

Gemei US X900 Portable Media Player With GPS Receiver

by Justin

Yet another portable media player with GPS functionality, the also features a 4.3 inch 480×272 pixel TFT screen, detachable gaming pad, two joysticks on the controller, and an ADI chip that should allow NES and SFC game play.

The X900 also has support for AVI, MPEG4, MP3, WMA, FLAC codecs, an integrated ebook reader, and an FM tuner. An SD slot can hold up to 4GB memory cards for movie or game storage making these a pretty hot little PMP. Too bad it looks like it’ll be only available in China for the time being.