Garmin GPS Reviews: GPS Systems : My Comments

'VC lemmings' chase old success; new iPhone a GPS boon
Boston Globe - United States
... Boston venture capitalist Bijan Sabet predicts that GPS technology will soon play a bigger role in other kinds of consumer electronics. ..

GPS as a stand alone may be on the way out but it will be used as part of a lot of other applications and will be playing major in the future consumer electronics market

Garmin nuvi 860 GPS with Menu Speech Recognition
Mobile Magazine - USA
Having your portable GPS navigation system read its directions out to you isn't exactly anything new, but with the new Garmin nuvi 860, you can start to ...

Oh so your GPS tells you what road to take, which interesection to stop at and where to turn next. Well, there is nothing with that. But you would be surely be pleasantly surprised with GArmin Nuvi 860, because you can actually talk to it and ask for directions and isn't that cool?

GPS Southern Africa Conference and Exhibition
Inside GNSS - Eugene,USA
The GPS Southern Africa Conference and Exhibition – the first of its kind in Africa – takes place from 20 August to 22 August 2008 at the Indaba Hotel, ...

If you are GPS fan and live in South Africa well, here's your chance to find out more. The exhibition will feature a number of new models and the conference will have interesting topics on GPS applications and new developments.

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Garmin GPS Reviews: GPS Systems Applications - Part II

GPS Systems Applications:

People GPS Tracking Systems

There are gps systems for kids and also for elderly people. These tracking devices once strapped on these individuals continuously send you signals about their location. So you can easily trace them where ever they might wandered off to.

GPS Tracking Cell Phones

Want to locate your wife in a crowded mall during Christmas shopping - use your gps tracking device. You could use your mobile phone which may be much easier. Unless the phone is switched off or the battery is completly gone. But you could use the gps feature to track her down! Many mobile phones come equipped with gps devices. Recently, a transplant patient who was in a concert and could not be reached by the hospital (the family's mobile phones were switched off) was eventually located as his mother's phone had a gps device embedded in it. Emergency services tracked them down and got them to the operating table within a short time. Time is of essence in transplant cases and organs that match a particular patient are rare to come by. GPS saved the day in this case and life of the patient literally. This potentially life saving feature will in the near future be part of all mobiles phones. A recent law will soon require all mobile phones to have this device, so you can be tracked anywhere and located in case of an emergency..

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Garmin GPS Reviews: GPS Systems - Is it doomsday for GPS?

Exercepts from an article I recently read:

SiRF Technology (SIRF), a San Jose, Calif.-based maker of GPS chips, this morning said it was cutting jobs and trying to restructure its business due to softening consumer demand. Already the worst performing tech stock for the year, shares of SiRF nosedived in early trading this morning.

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SiRF is the canary in the GPS coal mine. In other words, the GPS device market has hit the skids and we should expect more bad news, and more dominoes to tumble. Why? Look at SiRF's customers: Tom Tom, Magellan, NAVIGON, Sony and European white-label GPS maker, Binatone. If the macroeconomic trends are putting a damper on SiRF and its chip-buying posse, it isn't hard to extrapolate and see trouble for Garmin as well.

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For the full article please click here:

http://gigaom.com/2008/03/25/why-the-gps-party-is-about-to-end/#comment-886933

According to the author of this report the party for GPS is over? Is it really over? GPS has been the hottest holiday tech device that millions of people buying. Though most people whose daily trip to the office and back along the same road and intersections don't really need a GPS device still millions bought it because it was next coolest thing. GPS has found many uses. Hard to locate holiday spots, have to drive a friend to new location that you have driven to before, have to drive to a meeting to an obscure hotel in some remote area.....well, but these are not something you encounter daily some may argue. But, isn't it about making life convenient and you are not going to buy a GPS just because you need to drive your friend a new suburb. It's because you have a GPS that you know the exact roads and the exact turns to take that you offer to take him in first place. So, is it the classic chicken and egg question. Which comes first?

What do you think? Please share your comments on - the beginning of the end for GPS ....

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Garmin GPS Reviews: GPS Systems Applications - Part I

GPS Systems Applications:

There are wide variety of gps receiver models available suitable for a variety of applications. The US troops used this during the Operation Desert Storm. Now, imagine if they could find their way in the featureless, hot, empty deserts of a foreign country what you can do with your gps system in your own city or country. You can hike and bike to remote locations and not be worried about being lost with a gps receiver in hand.

Car GPS Systems:

The gps systems for cars can be loaded with maps of the cities and countries of your choice and you can easily navigate and reach your destination with out having to stop and ask for directions. The car gps systems are the most popular and widely used application of the available gps systems. The gps systems for car come with features like - maps, traffic information, places of interest - like shopping malls, gas stations, a local McDonalds, FM radios, local gas prices, accurate road trip information, entertainment and emergency road side assistance and much more. You can choose a car gps system that suits your needs.

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Garmin GPS Reviews: GPS Systems - Part II

How are GPS Systems Useful?

The GPS tracking systems have been very useful for people to find their way on land and on water, in keeping track of people, vehicles, pets etc, in scientific studies, for map making, land surveying and countless other commercial uses. Everyday new applications are being found for the amazing NAVSTAR GPS commonly known as GPS systems.

Bascially you need a gps receiver to receive and decode the signals that are continuously being sent by the 24 satellites orbiting the earth. The gps system has been designed in such a way that any point of time your gps receiver on earth receives signals from at least 4 satellites. This is essential for to determine your exact location on Earth.

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Garmin GPS Reviews: GPS Systems - Part 1

An Introduction To GPS Systems:

Global Position Systems or GPS Systems is a Global Navigation Satellite System operated by the US airforce. The system is a group of 24 satellite orbiting the earth at low to medium height orbits covering every part of our planet earth. The satellites send precise radio signals at a low frequency which when decoded by gps receivers on Earth can give us precise information about our location on Earth.

GPS systems became widely available for civilian use in the 1980's. The satellites cost billions of dollars to be put into orbit and their yearly maintenance costs about 750 million dollars. It is available for civilian use for free as it was felt that it would do greater good as a free system. It anyways needs to be maintained for use by the defence forces for their own navigation, troop deployment, tracking and operations in other countries.

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