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Updated August 31st, 2010 With the 2010 Magellan Roadmate models adding mostly map bundles (one update or lifetime updates) to the 2009 range, the latter remains quite interesting and the current prices on refurbished models at Walmart or Amazon are too good to pass : $40 for the 1340 (3.5" screen) and $64 for the 1440 (3.5" screen) with the Traffic Link module available for an extra $35.
Thanks to jastevenson for sharing this tip in the Magellan Roadmate 1340 only 40 bucks (1440 : $64) of the Magellan Roadmate and Maestro AIOs forums where others shared the good news of a free map update.
Updated July 13th, 2010 - The impressive line-up of 10 new Roadmates announced by Magellan at the end of May is starting to be available. This includes the "3045-LM" (LM for Lifetime Maps) that forum member "mutt_lover" purchased and he's kindly shared his detailed review in the Magellan Roadmate 3045-LM - User Reviews topic of...
In what appears to be the first GPS recall ever, Garmin have issued a nüvi Battery PCB Recall for their nüvi 200W, 250W, 260W and 7xx models :
...Garmin has identified potential overheating issues when certain batteries manufactured by the third-party battery supplier within a limited date code range are used in certain Garmin nüvi models with a specific printed circuit board (PCB) design. It appears that the interaction of these factors can, in rare circumstances, increase the possibility of overheating, which may lead to a fire hazard...
A bit odd as these are older models and you'd think we would have heard of problems in the past (certainly can't recall any mention of a "fire") but kudos to them for taking it seriously. You can use the [ALERT] nüvi Battery PCB Recall - 2x0w and 7xx in the "Garmin nüvi forums" to discuss.
Updated August 18th, 2010 It's been a few weeks now, but for those who missed it, TomTom released new quarterly maps at the end of June, the v850 maps based on the TeleAtlas 2010.03 release. Due to the inevitable increase in size, TomTom now provide regional cut-outs in Europe.
Updated April 2nd, 2010 - TomTom have just announced new models with the "TM" extension, not to be confused with trademark, since TM stands for Traffic and Maps. All the available models can be seen in...
Updated August 11th 2010 ALK were the first out of the gate with a full featured on-board (maps on the device) turn by turn (TBT) GPS application for the iPad, CoPilot Live HD for iPad at the end of April. It remains the only such application since the other native iPad TBT app is MotionX's Drive HD, an off-board application.
I've been using CoPilot LIVE HD on my iPad in California for a couple of weeks and while there is a lot to like about it, such as the gorgeous map views and Live Google Local search, odd routes, missing roads, lack of traffic information and of speed limits make it difficult to use it as a primary GPS guidance solution. You can use the ALK CoPilot HD - Full GPS App for iPad in the "GPS on the Apple iPhone and iPad - smartphoneGPS.com" forums to discuss.
Updated March 23rd, 2010 - ALK recently released a new version of CoPilot for the iPhone (version 8.0.0.659) with some interesting new features such as live POI search via Google Local and Traffic information via Inrix, at least in Europe. The new version is impressive on the...
Updated August 4th, 2010 Garmin's latest "hit", the nuvi 3790T with its dazzling screen and powerful engine compartment, just got its first update, v2.50 that provides many fixes.
Garmin's list of fixes is impressive but most issues had gone unnoticed by users, or were so infrequent that they'd been put an account of a "passing bug", but one of them was puzzling and seems to have been addressed : "points of Interest alerts to only occur on one side of the road". You can use the nuvi 37xx software version 2.50 released topic started by SergZak in the "Garmin nüvi forums" to discuss.
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