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By Yenie Darian, October 20, 2009 12:29 PM

Choose Portable GPS Receiver

By Yenie Darian

Today at the market, there are many models and brands of Portable GPS Receiver available. The new portable GPS receiver offered from US$ 100 to more than US$ 500 depend on the features. Usually, build-in GPS is too bulky, not efficient and more expensive than portable GPS receiver. The portable GPS receiver is very economical and useful for daily activity, driving or outdoor activity.

TomTom GO 730T 4.3-Inch Widescreen Bluetooth Portable GPS Navigator with Traffic Receiver

The basic type portable GPS receiver is around US$ 100. Usually, they offer basic features such as the United States map in details, a small color screen, voice guidance and power adapter. This basic type have enough features to assist you during driving, although you couldn’t get additional features such as voice recognition, FM traffic receiver, add custom points of interest (POI’s), JPEG picture viewer, MP3 player, world travel clock with time zones, Multi-Destination Routing, trip calculator and so on.

Unfortunately, the portable GPS navigation system doesn’t have internal compass accelerometer or a device used to measure the car’s speed. So, it can’t navigate as accurately as a build-in GPS system. It is important to buy a portable GPS receiver that has a build-in accelerometer, if you use the GPS very frequently or live in an area where there are a lot of high rises and tunnels.

The portable GPS receiver usually compact and pocket sized. You can carry it anywhere you go and avoid stolen if you leave it in your car.

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By Yenie Darian, August 16, 2009 4:34 AM

The Garmin GPS 12 – a Discontinued Product

By Yenie S. Darian

The Garmin GPS 12 is a discontinued product of Garmin. It was an almost ideal for Geocachers and kayakers.

For your information The Garmin GPS 12 Personal Navigator provided an affordable choice for outdoor adventurers who want a basic, dependable, and hard-working 12-parallel-channel GPS handheld. It offers fast satellite acquisition in the toughest conditions-even in heavy tree cover. I think it was the great simply product.

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By Yenie Darian, August 14, 2009 4:03 AM

Newest Garmin Nuvi 1200 Series GPS

By Yenie S. Darian

Garmin nuvi 1200 Series

The Garmin Nuvi 1200 series that consists of the Nuvi 1200, the Nuvi 1250, and the Nuvi 1260T are the latest of great automotive GPS units from Garmin.

All of this new Garmin GPS have the same size (3.7″W x 2.9″H x .6″D), weight (4.0 ounces) and screen size (2.8″W x 2.1″H, 3.5″diagonal). It is thin and light weight that can easily fits in your pocket for walking around the city.

This new Garmin Nuvi 1200 series GPS has:

• 3.5 inch display (diagonal)
• Speaks street names
• Optional FM lifetime traffic information
• Preloaded street maps for lower 48 states, Hawaii and Puerto Rico
• Where am I? feature
• Photo navigation
• ecoRoute™
• Optional MSN® Direct

Compare the nüvi 1200 Series

Some features that are missing from the newer widescreen versions are Lane Assist, Lane Guidance, customizable vertical data fields.

However, this entire new Garmin GPS navigator is an ultra-slim design that fits easily in your pocket. These are simply GPS units.

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