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By Yenie Darian, December 19, 2009 2:06 AM

TomTom XL 330S 4.3-Inch Widescreen Portable GPS Navigator (Factory Refurbished) as a Gift

Looking for a new GPS device for you or as a gift? Consider TomTom XL 330S 4.3-Inch Widescreen Portable GPS Navigator, known for its ease of use, superior maps, and fantastic routing.

The TomTom 4.3-inch widescreen LCD for easier viewing in the car, the TomTom XL 330 and XL 330S features the plug and play ease of use, rock-solid navigation, and sleek design we’ve come to expect from TomTom. Both models come pre-loaded with highly accurate maps for the United States and Canada, with TomTom Map Share technology that enables you to instantly modify street names, street direction, and POIs on your own device.

TomTom XL 330S

Hot Deal!!!

Price: $89.99

Both models share the same navigation and user interface features. Howerver, the XL 330S adds text-to-speech, which means instead of hearing “turn right in 50 feet,” you’ll hear “turn right in 50 feet at Ohio Street.”

Key Features and Benefits

• Easy to Use right out of the box

• Clear Directions from the sensitive touchscreen display with turn-by-turn spoken directions

• TomTom Map Share lets you instantly modify street names, street direction, and POIs on your own device and benefit from others’ corrections

• “Help Me!” Emergency Menu gives one-touch access to local emergency providers, such as police, fire stations, and hospitals

• Preloaded Complete Maps of the United States and Canada with TeleAtlas data

• EasyPort mount is foldable and slim for easy portability

• POI icons easily find gas stations, restaurants, hotels, and more along your route. Customize by adding your own points of interest

• QuickGPSfix speeds up the time it takes to fix your GPS position to help you drive off more quickly.

• Traffic-Capable with optional RDS-TMC traffic receiver accessory keeps you up-to-date on traffic events to minimize potential delays

• Daily Fuel Prices, available as an optional service, finds the lowest priced gas on your route

Specifications:

• Display: 4.3-inch TFT color LCD touchscreen (480 x 272 pixels, 64,000 colors)

• Connectivity: USB port for charging and downloading maps and updates

• Power: Internal Lithium-Ion battery for up to 3 hours of operation

• Dimensions: 4.7 x 3.2 x 0.9 inches

• Weight: 6.6 ounces

Right now when you purchase this GPS navigator, you can save an additional 50% on accessories from top brands like Case Logic, Lowepro, Bracketron, and Gilsson. Just add both the qualifying GPS and accessory to your cart and the accessory will automatically be discounted an additional 50% at checkout.

Other post you may be interested in reading : Tips to Get the Best GPS System and Decide the Best Auto Navigation System for You.

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By Yenie Darian, August 26, 2009 1:15 PM

Bob Dylan Could be New sat-nav Voice

Music legend Bob Dylan is “talking to a couple of car companies” about becoming the voice of their GPS system.

The singer-songwriter discussed the possibility on his BBC Radio 6 Music Sunday show which was on the theme of street maps.

Renowned for his raspy, nasally tones, the 68-year-old American gave his listeners a taster of what his directions might sound like.

“Left at the next street. No, right. You know what? Just go straight.”

He continued: “I probably shouldn’t do it because whichever way I go, I always end up at one place – on Lonely Avenue. Luckily I’m not totally alone. Ray Charles beat me there.”

The normally reclusive Dylan, whose hits include Blowin’ in the Wind and Like a Rolling Stone, admitted he does not normally like telling people what he is doing.

His Theme Time Radio Hour is on Mondays at midnight. The singer is currently on hiatus, and this week’s show was a repeat. His comments had not previously been reported.

Comedian John Cleese is one of several celebrities who have already lent their voices to sat-nav devices.

Other sat-nav voices include Susan Skipper, who appeared as Nigel Havers’ posh girlfriend in the 1980s sitcom Don’t Wait Up; and Eve Karpf, who voice-dubbed the famous line: “Monsieur, with these Rocher you are really spoiling us” in a chocolate commercial.

Original Source : BBC News (August 25, 2009)

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By Yenie Darian, August 19, 2009 9:11 AM

How Does The Car Sat Nav Works?

By Yenie S. Darian

Car Satelite Navigation

The Car Sat Nav or car satellite navigation now has revolutionized. Satellite navigation devices are now fitted in almost every vehicle such as airliners, boat, taxi drivers, couriers and the family car.

Navigation like car sat nav is just one of the main uses of GPS. To make travelling comfortable and trouble free to find unfamiliar destinations, car sat nav GPS pin point locations from space.

Sat Nav or satellite navigation relies on a constellation of satellites known as GNSS (Global Navigational Satellite Systems). And the Global Positioning System (GPS) is only one fully functioning GNSS in the world today.

GPS has a constellation of more than 30 satellites. For accurate navigation, at any one time at least three or four of these satellites are overhead. The GPS satellites each have onboard an atomic clock that use the resonance of an atom (the frequency at particular energy states) which makes them highly accurate, over a million years not lose as much as a second in time. It is really unbelievable precision that makes car sat nav possible.

The satellites relay a signal from the onboard clock that consists of the time and the position of the satellite. Then, this signal is beamed back to earth where your car’s sat nav retrieves it. The computer in your GPS system will result exactly where you are on the face of the earth by calculation how long this signal took to reach the car and triangulating four of these signals. It is only required three signals on a ‘flat’ earth and four signals if the elevation changes.

GPS systems can only work as a result of the highly precise accuracy of the atomic clocks. GPS systems signals are relay at the speed of light and accuracy of even a millisecond. It could adjust the positioning calculations by 100 kilometers as light can travel nearly 100 kilometers each and every second, although currently GPS systems are accurate to about five meters.

As I was writing the above article, it struck me that you may be interested in reading this too: How To Choose The Best GPS Systems (3) – Now What Do I Choose? and The Review of Magellan GPS Receiver I hope you find it useful.