If the maze of budget navigation units has you all turned around, you probably haven’t even looked in Lowrance’s direction; while primarily known for it’s aquatic endeavors, the iWay GPS nav systems are formidable alternatives to more familiar names like TomTom and Garmin. The affordable iWay 250c has a meager 3.5-inch 320 x 240 touch-screen display, NAVTEQ maps, adjustable white LED backlighting, and just for kicks, completes a trifecta of functions by acting as a JPEG viewer and MP3 player. (more…)

Here is the Netac P210, straight out of China. You probably don’t really need a spec run-down on a product so similar to countless others that you’ve seen before, but that’s what they pay us for, so read on for (more…)

The P10 carriers over so it still sports that same 4-inch, (480 x 272) 16:9 TFT LCD, unspecified dual core CPU, 2 megapixel cam, the ability to record direct from TV, up to 30GB of storage, USB 2.0 hosting, eBook reader, and support for a wide range of media formats including MPEG-1/4, Xvid, DiVx, WMV, MP3, WMA, OGG and AC3. What a great device to be keeping in your pocket. Now all you need to do is get a matching Ferrari.

Not wanting to be outdone by Pioneer Panasonic today unveiled it’s own range of in-car GPS systems – the Strada class F. Now yesterday we were pretty confident we had just seen THE setup to have in your car (see the new pioneer in-car-entertainment systems article) but in typical style for the electronics world it appears that Pioneer may only have help that crown for a day. The Panasonic boasts an impressive list of features: measuring 152×91x177mm, they offer 2 digital TV tuners, an SD slot, a CD drive, an iPOD connector, DVD player, audio is optimized for 5.1ch/4ch/2ch, connection to a rearview camera (night vision possible) and a 40GB HDD all shown on a 7” screen – we want one, and we want one now!

Pioneer presented the next incarnation of their high-end AVIC systems the AVIC-VH009. This is THE setup to have if you want every conceivable form of entertainment packed into your vehicle. It will be available in 5 versions including the high-end 2500 EUR version, the AVIC-VH009MD. It boasts a 7″ screen, 5.1 amp, TV, Video DVD, CD, MD, HDD, 3D GPS and WMA/MP3/DivX/DTS/Dolby compatibility. From the pictures released the graphical interface of the GPS looks ver impressive indeed.

 
TomTom recently officially announced their new GO lineup, the 510, 710 and 910 at the worlds largest electronics show, CeBIT in Hannover, Germany.

The devices feature a new 16:9 wide screen & high resolution display alongside features such as iPod Control, US and EU mapping on the same device, RDS/TMC, 20GB HDD, MP3 Player and Photo Viewer.

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According to reports the next Sony PlayStation Portable firmware update will include E-Mail capability called “Sony Mail” and Sony also plans to release later this year this GPS add-on for the PSP demonstrated a while back.