Routeplanners: SatNav & GPS News

GPS devices are easily a dime a dozen (or two or three dozen for that
matter) these days. So it’s no surprise to see audio-equipment maker Harman
Kardon throw its hat into the ring with the $500 (£ 250) Guide + Play
GPS-500.

The GPS-500, due March 207, gets busy with what looks to be a better-than-standard colourful 4-inch widescreen touch-sensitive display toget your grubby fingers on. It also sports a points-of-interest database for finding your local Starbucks, 2 GB of internal memory for storing the addresses of all your favourite hangouts (you can expand the capacity via an SD card) and an included in-car cigarette-lighter cable for powering theGPS.

And since Harman Kardon is into audio equipment, this GPS unit wouldn’t be
complete without media playback features. It works with online music
subscription services (not iTunes, though) and can support playback of
formats including MP3, MP4, WMA, ASF, WAV, and OGG. Why opt for this instead
of any other run-of-the-mill GPS? It’s hard to say, but maybe its ability to
play music will have you humming along with Ride of the Valkyries.

Source: Mobilewhack