Garmin looks to be bringing a bit of a more personal experience to some of their devices, partnering with Boston-based uLocate to bring the popular Where application to a selection of unnamed navigational devices. This looks to be huge for both parties. Not only does Garmin benefit from Where’s rich variety of widgets, everything from Yelp’s restaurant reviews to GasBuddy’s gas price comparisons to Facebook, but uLocate now has a presence on the platform of America’s number one PND maker.
It would be great if Where was available on Garmin PND’s. Not only would it make the device’s exponentially more useful, but relative to the value added Garmin probably paid next to nothing, multimillion dollar deal or not. So far though, Where has largely been a player in the wireless world and given its huge popularity on the 3G iPhone we’d also expect to see Where featured on Garmin’s nuviphone.
It would definitely make sense, but so far neither company has verified anything. We’ll keep you updated as we find out more.
via cnet
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