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It's been a while since we reviewed a GPS device. Say hello to the Navigon 2100 Max and the 2120 Max. Also called as Persona Navigation Devices (PNDs), these devices come with text to speech direction guides and Navigon's exclusive offering called the Reality View. The 4.3 inch touch screens looks worthy of being savored by gizmo freaks. The new DirectHelp feature provides hints to near by civic amenities. The FreshMaps feature that comes with Navigon's service can offer you up to 12 new POIs every three years. The 2D and 3D maps rendered by the systems are said to be well created and almost 'beautiful'.

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The ETen Glofiish X650 is a neat GPS enabled phone that comes from the Glofiish line of PDAs. It's predecessor, the X600 has made its mark as a trend setter among contemporaries with some real eye candy to offer as far as the display is concerned. The X650 adds a radio to the features of the X600 and a twist in color as well. There's also allegedly supposed to be a few additions and subtractions in the latest Glofiish, but what's important is if it lives up to the expectations.

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The Hop 1883 Phone rides on the 900/1800/1900 MHz GSM bands. The 2.8" display screen is fantastic for GPS navigation. The phone uses a SiRF Star III GPS receiver chip to handle the navigation. It supports resolutions of 240 x 320. You can enjoy some pretty cool shooting experiences (no, no guns here) with the 2.0 megapixel camera that comes with it.

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HP has lined up the brilliance of their PDA and Smartphone line of products in the form of some rather dashing models. The iPAQ 914 comes with a three megapixel camera and a 2.4” inch touchscreen. It has an amazing 7.2Mbps HSDPA along with Wi-Fi b/g and GPS. it will run on Windows Mobile 6. Next up is the iPAQ 614 PDA. It is blessed with a 2.8” touchscreen. Then comes the iPAQ 314 that runs HP’s softwares. It has a massive 4.3” screen. It looks pretty much like a GPS device (and it is one), it provides synchronization with Outlook and via Bluetooth. Last of all are the iPAQ 214 and iPAQ 114. The iPAQ 214 has a brilliant 4” screen and come with Wi-Fi and VoIP facilities. The iPAQ 114 has a 3.5” display screen and 64MB RAM and Bluetooth.

This year at the IFA in Berlin, the TomTom GO 920 T GPS shall be unleashed. Like many other gizmos that await the grand event before they are released, this GPS system is among the more attractive ones in its category. First of all it comes with a massive 4GB of internal memory that is loaded with maps of 41 European countries as well as the US and Canada. You can receive updates from the RDS-TMC Traffic Receiver from various nations like Andorra, Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Monaco, Norway, Portugal, Republic of Ireland, San Marino, Spain (inc. Canary Islands), Sweden, Switzerland, The Netherlands, Vatican City, Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia, Russia Federation USA, Canada, Guam, Albania, Belarus, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Macedonia, Moldova, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia and Ukraine.

Firstly, let’s give a standing ovation to LG for bringing out a GPS device of this caliber amongst us. The LG LN740 is really slim (4.5” x 3.5” x 0.7”) and light (7.3 ounces). One may think that LG may have compromised on the size, but then they have doe pretty well to conjure a 4” LCD display that has resolutions of up to 320 x 240 pixels. It achieves GPS functionality via a a SiRFStar III receiver in addition to Navteq street-level maps for the United Sates, Canada and Puerto Rico. It comes with support for sixteen languages and a text to speech guide for English, Spanish and French. It comes with three map views, namely, 3D track up, 2D north up, and 2D track up and has a good zooming capability.

The iRiver NV is a GPS and PMP system. It has been much sought out and highly anticipated. The NV has a much needed 7” LED TFT screen (800x480) since it provides with DMB TV and SiRF III GPS Navigation. The greater the size of the screen, the better the details one can take it. An additional advantage of owning this is that you are blessed with 1.3 megapixel camera. Supported media formats for playback include MP3, WMA, OGG, MP1, MP2, MP2.5, WMA7, WMA8 and WMA9. It also has FM radio and 2 SD Card slots.

This isn’t an updated product but the Samsung i550 is simply stunning. It comes in with GPS navigation with dedicated keys to serve the purpose. With 3G and 3.6 Mbps HSDPA stuffed in it I’m sure that critics have nothing to complain of nor do purchasers need any thinking twice. For all those imaging and video shooting freaks, you have a drop dead brilliant 3.2 megapixel camera. To view your catch you have 2.6" display screen. The Samsung i550 has 128 MB of main memory and a microSD card slot. Other features include microUSB, FM radio and a 3.5 mm jack. What’s more is that the smartphone is compact and has body stats of just 115 x 53 x 13.8 mm. and finally, Samsung is proud to call it their “first bar-shaped Symbian smartphone”.

Here’s a question for you to ponder. Does riding a bike demand less interruption as compared to driving a four wheeler? Well, whatever your answer may be, this little gizmo will spread a momentary smile on your face, especially if you were a lost biker once. The Clarion DrivTrax is a GPS navigation system, especially designed for bikes. The makers of this one have already given a thought to what we all are wondering and have pretty wisely installed some great voice commands that can help you look a little more at the road as compared to the device itself. Bikers did need something of the sort and could see it coming all along.

If you are a globetrotter and find it a pain to have your conversations with the tourism authorities in China go as well as it went with the blokes in England, then here’s a relieving find. The iTRAVL Language Communicator is a great travel PDA with the availability to speak the translated version of your input phrase in English, Chinese, French, German, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish. The database in the gizmo has a total of 63000 phrases. And that’s not all. The iTRAVL also contains Fodor’s guide for 50 major destinations on 5 continents, the CIA World Factbook for 180 countries, audio guides to major museums around the world (that’s really too much, isn’t it?) and a spectacular 1.6 million word audiovisual dictionary.

The Delphi Nav300 GPS packs NAVTEQ Map software system into it that includes maps and guides for the United States, Canada, Alaska, Hawaii, and Puerto Rico. It provides with helpful features like lane assistance and road sign alerts so that even if you do not have your head on your shoulders when behind the wheel, you can trust that you’re pretty safe. It also points out Points of Interest (PoI) and shall have ZAGAT ratings facility by September. Other features include voice commands and assistance, Bluetooth, Text-To-Speech for street names, speed limit warnings and scores of other goodies. It can also be used as a media player as it provides audio and video support and SD expansion.

The iRiver NV is a mark of a truly intelligent and helpful gadget that’s here to stay. First of all, it looks hot! It is among those gizmos that will have the women drooling all over your sleeves. It is a Portable Media Player, DMB TV and GPS navigation system. It has the Korean touch all over it since it hails from there. Surely it has all the makings of a classic with the stunning a 7 inch LED TFT screen (800x480 resolution). There also seems to be a camera and a FM Tuner. The navigation is handled by SiRF III GPS. Multimedia support includes MP3, WMA, OGG (for audio) and MP1, MP2, MP2.5, WMA7, WMA8, WMA9 (for video). There are 2 card slots so that you can hog up lot of memory lest you run put of space. The sound output is enhanced by 2W Stereo Speakers.