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John Shawn, 14.12.2011 12:58
Just over a year ago, TomTom radically changed the nature of the personal navigation device. Previously, it had been an essentially passive system, receiving location signals from satellites and providing routing information accordingly. Then TomTom introduced its LIVE Services with the x40 series, which hooked up to a mobile data link to provide a range of connected facilities. It has taken a long time for other manufacturers to answer TomTom, but now one of the oldest brands in the sat-nav business is meeting the challenge, and potentially raising the bar still further. With the nuvi 1690, Garmin is introducing its NuLink!, which mirrors TomTom’s LIVE and adds quite a bit more. Like TomTom’s LIVE sat-navs, the 1690 has a mobile data connection built in. So it can download and receive information from the Internet. Garmin uses this to provide a comprehensive range of services. For a start, instead of using the traditional FM radio receiver to receive RDS-TMC traffic updates, the ...
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