Nokia has introduced a couple of new handsets in its Navigator line – the Nokia 6710 Navigator and the Nokia 6720 classic, where both handsets will concentrate on not only providing you with the best in class performance when it comes to keeping in touch with friends and family, it will also help you get to your destination on time and correctly, proving yet again Nokia’s heritage of traditional candybar phones that excel in all areas. We shall look at not only both handsets but other accessories that Nokia has on offer to make your mobile navigation experience a complete one.

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So we’ve seen the announcement by Garmin-Asus to roll out their nüvifone G60, but that’s not all from the alliance as there is yet another smartphone in the works that will be announced at next week’s MWC ‘09 in Barcelona, Spain – the M20 all-in-one phone. Why do we call it an all-in-one phone? After all, it doesn’t come with the kitchen sink, although it does carry a mobile web-browser and premium navigation system, all powered by the Windows Mobile operating system. Read more about the nuviphone M20 right after the jump.

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Garmin-Asus will make the most out of their presence at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain next week by using it as a platform to introduce the new nüvifone G60, the firstfruits of their labor that will be unleased to the world. This is a quad-band GSM handset and boasts 3.5G connectivity that caters for high speed downlink packet access (HSDPA) networks as well as Wi-Fi connections, making it one truly connected phone that allows you to go online from virtually anywhere without suffering from poor download speeds (as long as the signal strength is strong enough and there are enough 3G spots around, of course, since surfing on EDGE or GPRS can be quite a pain in this day and age). More on the G60 right after the jump.

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Some of you readers might be disappointed that your mobile phone doesn’t have a GPS device like other mobile phones. Well, if your cellular phone has a SIM card reader, then you should have no problem getting a GPS in your phone with the aptly-named SIMply-A-GPS.

This product, developed by Sagem-Orga and BlueSky Positioning, is definitely one of those products that truly defines plug-and-play. Somehow, these two groups have figured out how to put a GPS receiver, antenna, as well as the application software into a product that fits into any phone’s card reader.

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Trust the Japanese to come up with ever safer methods of driving, and the latest would be the IT-Assisted Road Information System from Nissan. This system is in its infancy at the moment being in a research state, but ultimately its goal is to use cell phones and GPS receivers to provide advance warning to drivers concerning potentially dangerous situations and conditions, and this includes driving on the wrong way on freeway ramps – definitely useful when one has had a wee bit too much to drink when partying. Not only that, this system will also warn drivers of reducing and increasing speed at uphill and downhill grades. It would be interesting to see whether such a system will be implemented worldwide or not, but hey – anything that helps saves lives? We’re all for it.

Source: Navigadget

For those of you who love the seven seas and have always remained the the forefront of marine technology, chances are you would have heard of Lowrance before. This is a class-leading brand where marine electronics and GPS navigational systems are concerned, and this time round, Lowrance has a trio of next generation handheld GPS devices on offer for those who are looking out for one. The Lowrance Endura series has been expanded by these three innovative touch-screen GPS handhelds for the great outdoors, and they are the Sierra, Safari and Outback. More details on the individual models right after the jump.

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Jobo (finally) launched the PhotoGPS at Photonika last year, nearly a year after it’s initial announcement and we’ve been putting one though it’s paces for the past month or so. The production model is certainly slimmed down from the early design but how well does it work?

The answer to that question can be found, as always, on our sister site coolest reviews.

The Touch Cruise is one of those smartphones that has at least one great feature worth writing home about with the “Footprint”. This Footprint has nothing to do with carbon, for it is a GPS feature that allows the user to dock the phone in a car cradle and use it like an ordinary Auto Navigation System.

This phone/GPS device also uses turn-by-turn navigation, and has another geo-tagging feature that enables the user to take “digital postcards” with a 3.2 megapixel camera. I don’t have any more information than that, but I’m guessing this postcard feature will allow the user to send a picture, audio file, and other notes to someone else with the proper coordinates.

The HTC Touch Cruise has an operating system of Windows Mobile 6.1, and has a 2.8 inch TFT-LCD touch-sensitive screen with a QVGA resolution display. The other features are no surprise: it is also outfitted with Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g and Bluetooth 2.0 connectivity. It also includes a microSD memory card slot, with up to 400 minutes talk-time and up to two weeks standby on GSM.

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