Harman Kardon Guide+Play GPS-500 Does Nav and HiFi

Harman Kardon has announced their GPS-500. This is a small GPS device that also has media functionality. This GPS unit includes a hi-fi music player (with FM transmitter), video player, 2GB of internal storage with optional SD expandability and support for MP3, MP4, WMA, ASF, WAV and OGG. The 4-inch touchscreen and software doesn't look too shabby, either—nice and clean. It will be hitting the shelves later this month for $500. – Travis Hudson

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NPX and Mango team up for Mango Research Magic 380 portable GPS unit

by Paul Miller

NPX's swGPS tech isn't just for making photo location tagging easier, it's also powering Mango's 380 portable navigation unit, claiming to provide better performance and accuracy through software location processing, eliminating the traditional GPS baseband processing chip. Otherwise, the 380 sounds pretty traditional, with a Samsung touchscreen, stereo audio and an optional external RDS/TMC module for real-time traffic and data services. Supposedly the swGPS tech allows the unit to be slimmer than your average device, but we don't have the dimensions on hand to confirm that. No word on price or availability either, but Mango was showing this off at CeBIT, so it shouldn't be too far off.

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Uni.Gadget Tags: GPS, NPX, Mango, Magic 380

CES 2007: Handheld navigation Fujitsu-Siemens Pocket LOOX N100

There is a striking similarity between this and the Mio H610, which hopefully means we'll be seeing a lot more of these diminutive GPS handhelds in the coming year. The N100 also has a very basic, minimaist white design and it plays MP3s, videos and displays photos.

NAVIGON provides the mapping software and it has the interesting quirk of showing proper brand logos for various points of interest (read fast food joints) as you pass them. I had a quick check of the map of the surrounding area around the convention centre in Vegas and found a multitude of golden arches and Burger King symbols popping up everywhere. It also does speed warnings, road sign text and lane advice. Although the screen is a bit small to ever have much over a full blown in-car GPS, it all looks rather cute and the speed at which the screen refreshes makes it all nice and smooth too.

Programming the device uses predictive type, which worked very well, although I wasn't bowled over by the sensitivity of the touch screen display. You'll be able to pick the up from March in the US for a fairly hefty sum of $499.

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HP Korea to launch two new PDAs'iPAQ'

SEOUL, Korea (AVING) -- <Visual News> HP Korea presented its two new PDAs - iPAQ rx5000 Travel Companion with GPS navigation and rx4000 Mobile Media Companion with compact design. Both of them run Window mobile 5.0 OS.

The iPAQ rx5000 Travel Companion features 3.5-inch touch screen with GPS navigation and it also supports voice guidance system. WiFi and Bluetooth connectivity (optional) help access to the internet, e-mail, and offer compatibility with other Bluetooth devices.
The rx4000 has a slim compact PDA mounted on 2.8-inch LCD, and integrated WiFi connectivity ensures sharing information with others in real time.

The rx4000 is available for between 299,000(KRW) and 340,000(KRW), and the rx5000 is priced at 490,000(KRW).

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Wave Bubble: the portable, undercover FM jammer

There's no better way to celebrate the one hundredth birthday of broadcast radio -- or to completely enrage your sibling by rendering that brand new cellphone useless -- than to craft your very own FM jammer. Branching out from the many other jammers we've already seen, the Wave Bubble touts itself as being a "self-tuning, wide-bandwidth" rig that doesn't require a spectrum analyzer, and can "jam many different frequency bands" all in a pocket-friendly enclosure. Powered by an internal Li-ion cell, this bad boy provides self-tuning via "dual PLL," and you can manually enter new frequencies to vex by simply plugging it into your PC's USB port and inputting the data when prompted. It can purportedly provide up to two hours of jamming on dual bands (such as "cellphones") or four hours on single bands such as "cordless phones, GPS, WiFi, Bluetooth, etc." Additionally, the output power ranges from 0.1-watts (high bands) to 0.3-watts (low bands), and the handy device sports an approximate range of about 20 feet with "well-tuned antennas." Of course, you aren't apt to find this for sale anywhere considering the fit the FCC would undoubtedly throw, but if you consider yourself a master of the DIY craft, be sure to tag the read link for some in-depth pedagogy.

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Bluedot's 4-inch portable TV with 1Seg and a whole bunch of slim

 

by Paul Miller

While the new BTV-400K from Bluedot might lack the common accouterments of its peers, like an SD card reader, GPS or other such functions, the player does seems to do the whole 1Seg thing quite well. The 4-inch display rocks 480 x 272 pixels, and the whole unit is a mere 0.43-inches thick. The three hour battery life is a little on the weak end, but there's also a bulkier option that can offer up 10 hours of juice. With that complete lack of he player won't have much to do with your PC, but you can charge it via USB. This one should be hitting Japan in February for around 30,000 yen ($253 US). Peep another pic after the break.

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