TomTom Go Live 1000 taken for first test drive (video)

We’ve just returned from a ride with the TomTom Go Live 1000 . In general, the device met our relatively high expectations set by a purported flagship navigator from the likes of TomTom.

ComScore: European cell phone navigation on the rise

In Europe, it was a good year for cell phone GPS — ComScore , an organization that tracks painful sounding concepts like penetration and market share, just reported that an estimated 21 million Europeans stopped to ask their phone for directions last year. That’s up 68 percent from the 12.5 million who did so in 2008

MyFord Touch coming to 2011 Ford Focus

The 2010 Detroit Auto Show has just kicked off and Ford’s plans for the 2011 Focus have been made official. While others might care more about the 155bhp or new six-speed dual-clutch transmission, we’re best pleased by the inclusion of the MyFord touch control system

Mio MiBuddy GPS units to trade Windows CE for Android

If you’re keeping tabs on Mio Technology’s GPS happenings, you’ll be interested to dip into some facts that PC World has uncovered about the company’s upcoming offerings. According to the mag, the next version of the electronics-maker’s MiBuddy satnav unit will dash the underlying Windows CE architecture for Google’s newer and far more suave Android platform. The new device will be pushing into MID territory, boasting a 4.7-inch touchscreen along with a hardware slider keyboard, the ability to browse the internet, and WiFi and Bluetooth onboard

TomTom Car Kit for iPhone review

Boy, TomTom sure has chosen the worst possible time to release their Car Kit for iPhone , and to make matters worse, their decision to not include the iPhone app is now set in stone.

TomTom Start wants to democratize GPS navigation: smartphones point, laugh

Paradoxically, most of the fuss surrounding TomTom of late has been associated with a certain smartphone — a class of devices that signals the end to the dedicated SatNavs TomTom builds.

TomTom’s iPhone car kit and navigation software priced overseas

TomTom told us that its long-awaited iPhone navigation app and in-car mounting kit would be landing ” this summer ,” and at least on our watch, summertime is quickly drawing to a close. If a pre-order listing over at Handtec is to be believed, it looks as if the outfit is exceedingly close to finally having both the software and hardware ready for shipping. The £113.85 ($194) asking price includes a suction mount for your iPhone as well as the mapping software, though there’s no indication of exactly how much the app and hardware will run by themselves.

Hyundai Provia A7+ GPS unit adds multimedia playback, looks irresistible

It’s no secret that some of our US editors have been feeling a bit of tech-envy toward our cousins from the far East, who consider 7-inch PNDs commonplace . Doing nothing to allay those emotions, Hyundai has announced the Provia A7+, which is — you guessed it — a 7-inch GPS-slash-PMP soon to be available in South Korea

DeLorme kicks out waterproof Earthmate PN-30 GPS device

It was pretty much a year ago to the day when DeLorme released its Earthmate PN-40 , and now the outfit is busting out a lower-end unit that could easily be mistaken for the PN-40 from 2008. Indeed, the PN-30 doesn’t deviate from its roots, boasting a peanut-shaped waterproof chassis, a 32-channel Cartesio chipset, a daylight readable LCD and maps of the US, Canada and Mexico

Mio Spirit TV spotted in the wild doling out routes, serving soap operas

While we Yanks are stuck with overpriced PNDs that suck down weather forecasts and pretend to alert us of upcoming traffic problems, folks overseas are using their navigators to watch fresh episodes of Top Gear . Navman, better known these days as Mio , has just outed two new satnav devices across the pond, both of which sport a built-in Freeview TV tuner, Bluetooth, Google search, walking mode and loads of POIs.

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