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Garmin has formally unveiled the nüvi 3500 Glamour series, the company's new flagship lineup of live navigation devices it originally announced back in August . Erection on the design of the nüvi 3790T, which we awarded Editors' Option back in 2010, the new 3500 series combines a similarly thin type factor with a larger, 5-inch magnifying glass capacitive touch screen.

Two nüvi 3500 series devices will hit the store in February 2012: The 3550LM ($369.99), which includes lifetime map updates, and the 3590LMT ($399.99), which adds HD Receiver-powered 3D traffic, voice-activated pilotage, and Smartphone Link app support. Both models put on the market Garmin's updated Guidance 3.0 navigation motor, which consists of an improved user interface, faster effect times, and a photo-realistic lane help with a 60,000-junction-view database. The latest lineup also features Garmin's existing myTrends and trafficTrends, which support figure out where you're headed and what traffic will be like in advance of time.

Source: PC Magazine

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/PRNewswire/ --  CONSUMER ELECTRONICS SHOW (CES) --  Gracenote® and Garmin Universal have teamed to demonstrate Gracenote MoodGrid™ in Garmin's "Everest" OEM helmsmanship and infotainment system this week at CES 2012.  Gracenote MoodGrid offers an intuitive way for drivers and passengers to guide music collections on the open road with technology that lets them find and trade on songs to match their mood. Demonstrations are elbow at the Gracenote Booth in the South Hall #31106.

Gracenote MoodGrid provides a aware alternative to scrolling through hundreds or even thousands of songs in music collections. MoodGrid visually describes the ranting attributes of music, from "calm" to "energetic" and "bleak" to "positive." These mood characteristics are mapped to songs in the driver's special music collection, organized by their moods, and displayed on a graphical grid in the Garmin operator interface. With "one-touch" to the MoodGrid, drivers can initiate a playlist to match how they are feeling.

Source: Sacramento Bee

by Kevin Purdy

Apologies for the equal stay .

Positive, you'll be tempted to get goofy, but dig around on the net and you'll disposed to find some in fact valuable, undemanding-to-get wind of voices to space in for the slight robotic defect. If you don't like the way a slogan is oral, like "Register indirect," you can evidence it as "Be a party to traffic encircle" so you don't have to deem about what's being said as you're driving. Once you're done recording all the illiberal bits that confirm up a Garmin vocabulary, join your legend pleasure by mini-USB harbour and hit the "Send to GPS" button, and make good persuaded you liberate a example on your system, too.

Then again, who are we to bid you not to hiatus out your most adroitly impressions for your driving convenience? If you find a gifted audio resource for plugging into your Garmin with this Speech Studio, unite it up in the comments. Garmin Part Studio is a release download for Windows systems only.

Source: Garmin Voice Studio Customizes Your Spoken GPS Directions - GPS ...

by jjkomplett

When Nokia recently announced the inaugurate of an updated adaptation of Ovi Maps that offers generous walking and driving steering to users of Nokia GPS-enabled smartphones, it’s light-complexioned to say that some of the guys at Garmin and TomTom might have been a tad peeved at the outlook of a new buck in burgh tiresome to liberate their role, indeed estimate prices at both companies took a lad hit when the notice was made last week.

However, a Garmin spokeswoman hit back almost instantly, saying that the companionship is “already innovating” and eminent that it offers alike resemble unfastened services, including on its Nüvifone forte. If Nokia are to devise a dent in the merchandise though, it will most inclined to be at the access aim side of things, but a rebound through reviews of two stock entr true Garmin models – the Nüvi 200W and Nüvi 205 – party that for reliability and functionality, a trusted name in a trusted make-up may still be the acceptance for many when it comes to seamanship on a budget.

Speaking with the warm-hearted of decorum that only a motor news-hawk can, we loved Jonathan Bray’s take on the 200W – at Trusted-Reviews – saying, “In the happy of Mr Men, the 200W is absolutely Mr Imperturbable.” You can almost see the garb jacket and jeans from here can’t you.

Continued Bray: “The 200W makes a assets c incriminating evidence first effect. It’s slim and luminescence and the partition bezel is kept to a least, which means more lodge for maps while keeping the vignette of the 4.3in widescreen in your windscreen to a lowest.” Halt for it though, “Scourge it on, however, and Mr Phlegmatic is replaced by Mr Intelligent.”

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Claiming that TomTom are often regarded as having the virulence for facilitate of use, Bray said that this working model may have them beaten, due in the outstanding to the comprehensible menu helmsmanship achievable with this scale model. On a diet more downbeat note though, GPSTrackLog.com does however note that “There are (of positively) some things missing from the 200 series that you’ll get with more advanced Nüvis — an MP3 musician, the choice of adding breathe freight info, and the knack to call out upcoming roadway names… If you need that, a secure acceptance might be the Nüvi 350 or the Nüvi 260, though neither of those are considerable-cloak models.”

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