Hawt Gadgets

Up next on Hawt Gadgets is the Magellan RoadMate 9055. It’s an extra large 7 inch GPS navigation device that was designed for larger vehicles like SUV’s, trucks and RV’s. Of course you can use it on a smaller car if you’ve got room on your dash for it.

The RoadMate 9055 provides real time traffic alerts and alternate routes for free for life. It’s extremely useful as you can opt for an alternate route if you’re stuck in traffic. Another feature I enjoyed “points of interest” feature. There’s over 6 million of them. If you’re exiting the freeway and need to locate a gas station, restaurant or an ATM it will guide you to the nearest one.

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When it comes to GPS navigation systems, Garmin is still one of the leading makers, and to look at the Nuvi 3790 it’s no wonder why. The Nuvi 3790 offers both multi-touch and voice activated functionality for quick and convenient navigation, hand-on and hands-free. It’s even capable of hands-free calling for when you need to call ahead to your destination.

The Garmin Nuvi 3790 comes packed with state-of-the-art nüRoute technology featuring smart trafficTrends that learns the trends on your frequent routes and constantly improves its recommendations and predictions, as well as personalized myTrends, knowing what information you need before you even need it. Garmin gives you all this, even real-time traffic alerts, without a subscription.

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The new feature in portable vehicle gps units is the widescreen display. The “W” models are the widescreen units. The larger horizontal screen makes it easier to enter destinations on the touchscreen keypad. The wider screen also lets more information be displayed.

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The Garmin nüvi 360 is a portable GPS unit. This is one of the lowest priced units where you can get portability, 2D and 3D maps, voice directions, Bluetooth capability, and optional traffic update capabilities.

At 3.87 x 2.91 x 0.87 inches and 5.1 ounces, the Garmin nüvi 360 is highly portable. The 2.8 X 2.1 inch touch-screen is large enough to clearly display map information. Garmin’s GPS devices come preloaded with the latest maps and over 6 million points of interest. The unit has built-in Bluetooth, letting it act as a hands-free unit when paired with a Bluetooth enabled cellphone.

Garmin nüvi 360 GPS Navigator is a compact and versatile unit. It can also function as an MP3 player, an audiobook player, a JPEG picture viewer, a world clock with time zones, a currency converter, and more. The unit’s USB port can be used for updating or loading new data. You can also add data using the unit’s SD memory card expansion slot.

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Garmin’s nüvi 700 series brings two exciting new features — multi-destination routing and, “Where am I?/Where’s my car?” — to its popular pocket-sized GPS navigator lineup. As with all nüvis, you get Garmin reliability, the fast satellite lock of an integrated high-sensitivity receiver, a slim, pocket-sized design with a gorgeous display, an easy, intuitive interface, and detailed NAVTEQ maps for the United States, Canada and Puerto Rico with more than 6 million name-searchable points of interest. All of the 700-series navigators also feature a rich array of features including spoken directions in real street names, MP3 player and photo viewer, and an FM transmitter that will play voice prompts, MP3s, audio books, and more, directly through your vehicle’s stereo system.The nüvi 760 and 770 add integrated traffic receivers and Bluetooth capability for hands-free calling. The nüvi 770 adds maps for Europe. The nüvi 780 adds enhanced MSN direct content capability.

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