Navteq offers free traffic updates on your mobile phone
It’s a good day to drive in San Francisco.
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Navteq announced today it has released a new version of its free Navteq Traffic mobile Web site.
The mobile site is accessible from any Web-connected device (mobile phone, PDA, etc.) and offers free up-to-the-minute traffic flow and …
Originally posted at The Car Tech blog
Is September upgrade time for the iPod Touch?
(Credit: iPod Touch Fans)Fans of the iPod Touch who felt left out due to last week’s launch of the iPhone 3GS take heart: You’ve got a new device on the way. In the BlueTool initialization script in the iPhone 3.0 firmware there are mentions of a …
iPhone gets AT&T Navigator app
(Credit: Apple)Though we thought that TomTom would bring us the first turn-by-turn GPS app for the iPhone, AT&T has beat it to the punch. On Tuesday, the carrier released a version of its AT&T Navigator specifically for the the iPhone 3G S and earlier iPhone models with …
Originally posted at iPhone Atlas
Eclipse AVN726e features 3D maps (review)
Check out the full review of the Eclipse AVN726e.
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The AVN726e, Eclipse’s newest double-DIN DVD/navigation receiver, was making a name for itself even before it was released to the public, as it was named Best of Innovations at CES 2009 in the In-Vehicle Navigation/…
Originally posted at The Car Tech blog
Augmented reality: iPhone 3G S killer app?
Layar running on Android, but the iPhone 3G S could up the augmented ante.
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While video recording, more storage space, faster processor speeds, and better games have been the main calling cards for the iPhone 3G S, the biggest reason to upgrade may be yet to come–and it has to do with the seemingly most innocuous feature of all, the magnetometer.
Imagine a browser in which you view the real world through a camera lens and a heads-up display picks out interest points amid the living cityscape. This type of augmented reality has been the stuff of science fiction, but the cell phone browser Layar by Dutch software developer SPRXmobile claims to make it real. See the video for yourself.
Layar takes the sort of GPS POI data in current map-based apps, like ATMs, houses for sale, or nearby hotspots, and displays them overlaid on the landscape as seen through the camera lens.
It’s debuting later this month for Android phones in the Netherlands–not exactly a huge starting demographic, but if it works, this could be the start of something big. …
