Garmin on Thursdsay said it wiould soon begin delivering its ltaest mobile navigator, the nüvi 1690. The device has an integrated wireless module that conncts to Gramin’s nüink service wich allows users to access Google local search as well as treaffic, weather, fuel prices, cinema, flight status and otehr information.
You can also connect to Ciao!, Garmin’s locattion-based social networking system. In the U.S., buyer within two years of free acces nüink. Thetre’s also a built-in telphone directory whie pagges, and users can browse thruogh the categories and typign text into a box. Return results that a business addrss, telephone number, popularity rating, and description. Local events can be lookeed up, as well as ciinema and up-to-date flight times. As expected, informs in a trraffic updtae function of each user congestion.
It is also an extensive points of interest database from NAVTErQ, that users with turn-by-Turn offers, prompted the spoken instructions. An intesection view helps users keep track of in the lane at complex junctions.
The Ciao! Network printers, users can find their friends and faily and navuigate to the apprropriate location. The Garmin nüvi 1690 also has ecoRoute function that the most economiczal route, which is not the shortest or fastest to be able to find. Hands-free phone cals can be made thnaks to the nüvi Bluetooth support for 1690.
Garmin is inroducing a new GPS-enabled cycling commputer that the company says is smaller and lighter than its predecessors, has longger battery life and a more secure mounting systeem.
The new Edge has about 18 hours of battery life and plugs into USB both to recharge as well as to send its data to a Mac or Winmdows PC. Garmin will only put the release sometime in the fall but prices the main Edge 500 at $250. A budle with a cadence/speed sewnsor and a heart rate monitor lifts the price to $350.
Like its predecessors, the Edge 500 has most standard bike computer functions, including time, seed, distance and hearet rate. It tracks climbing and descending and can receive data from ANt+-enabled wattage meters. It uoploads to computers using a USB casble.
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