GPS Watch

A9.com uses GPS

Amazon's A9 adds pictures to yellow pages. Images were first linked to GPS locations which were then tightly linked to street addresses to compensate for GPS inaccuracies.

CES 2005 GPS Babies

Garmin

Magellan

Navman

Trimble

GPS for Treo 600

Seidio came out with a GPS car kit for Tree 600 powered by the Seidio SGR-300 Wired Receiver. It totally sucks that the cool Treo 600 still doesn't have bluetooth capability even after there was a $5837 bounty to develop a bluetooth driver. Ah well you will have to upgrade to the costlier Treo 650 to use those bluetooth GPS receivers.

India, are you ready for this?

By now its old news that the Garmin iQue3600 was launched in India. GPS India must have come out with their own version of the maps to support the new PDA/GPS. They never got back (as expected) when I inquired about the map availability. Another device that caught my attention was the NavTalk GSM. It looks like one of those old clunky cell phones, but its infact a GPS with cell phone capability. This one never got launched in US since GSM standard was never popular here. But now that most of the carriers provide GSM support I wonder if this product has a new market. Color screen, blue tooth and a smaller form factor would be a big plus. Do we have such phones already?

SocketCom's Enhanced GPS Nav Kit

Another bluetooth GPS receiver, this time from Socket Communications. They have announced a GPS Nav Kit that makes this receiver work with your bluetooth enabled Pocket PC or laptop. The street price is $249

[Link:] Socket Com Gps Nav Kit

Parrot's new CK3300 GPS car kit

Parrot has announced its new CK3300 GPS car kit which improves upon its previous CK3100 kit by adding a 12-channel Fastrax GPS receiver. The kit which would retail for ~$250 includes handsfree bluetooth for mobile phones, an LCD display with phonebook and caller ID and audio through car speakers which can automatically mute the car radio. Of course, you would need a bluetooth enabled PDA or laptop to see your GPS maps.

[Link:] Parrot CK3300

Nasa releases WorldViewer

Nasa has released an open-source application that lets you zoom into any part of the earth and see street-level pictures for many regions. Similar to Keyhole which lets you do the same for a hefty annual price. It seems that WorldViewer will soon be released on Sourceforge, so it will be really interesting to see the hacks that will be done on this application.

[Link:] WorldViewer
[Link:] Keyhole LT (Trial subscription for personal use)