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Tuesday 28 March 2006

GPSMAP 478 and GPSMAP 378: Garmin GPS-navigators for traveling by sea and by land [ 28-03-2006 15:54 ]

Author: Kozlov Alexey Translation by:

Garmin International has announced two new GPS-navigators GPSMAP 378 and GPSMAP 478. According to the company these are the world’s first compact GPS-navigators with preinstalled sea and land maps.

The GPSMAP 478 is equipped with detailed sea maps of US shore, including Alaska and the Hawaii islands, they depict bottom contour, port layouts, prohibited zones and so on. The GPSMAP 378 has maps depicting over 3200 lakes on the US territory. Most of them show also bottom contour. There are also preinstalled detailed land maps of the US, Canada and Puerto-Rico.

Both models are waterproof and can stand 30 minutes 1 meter deep. They are equipped with a 3.8” 480x320x256K TFT LCD, USB interface and expansion slots. The sales should start late in May. The recommended retail price makes up $1199.99.

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Analytics: smartphones force out PDA actively [ 28-03-2006 13:55 ]

Author: Verа Kozlova Translation by:

The analytical company Computer Industry Almanac has published its survey on the smartphones and PDA market dynamics with the forecast. In 2003 the world PDA sales outpaced smartphone sales by 70%. In 2005 the smartphone-PDA ratio was 3.1:1, in 2006 it is predicted to be 5:1. The smartphone sales are ever growing and they will 11 fold higher than PDA sales in 2011.

Depending on the region we can see a great dispersion. Well, in Europe the smartphones were to PDA as 6.5:1 last year and will be 13:1 in 2011. In the US the situation is different. PDA were still the leaders in 2005, however under the forecast smartphones will eventually outgrow PDA in 2006 and will lead 4.4:1 in 2011.

According to the company, increased PDA functionality might prevent from the future sales drop. Navigation opportunities and in a couple of years mobile TV are expected to protect the PDA market from the downturn in future.

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Double slider LG phone SD910 already available. The Korean buyers of BMW 3, 5, 6 and 7 series will also have LG SD910 [ 28-03-2006 13:32 ]

Author: Serge Novikov Translation by:

Today the South Korean company LG Electronics has officially announced the start of sales of its new mobile phone SD910, which stands out for its double slider design, i.e. the parts of the phone slide in two directions. “Duo slide” design of the new phone was created by the other South Korean company – SK Telecom.

I’d mark text-to-speech function in addition to landscape sliding 2” LCD. By sliding the LCD the user can access the buttons to control a built-in audio player. Like any modern handset the SD910 is equipped with a 1.3-megapixel camera with video capture opportunity.