The helpful folks at TeleNav shot me out their new Shotgun and here are my first impressions. If you are planning on buying a GPS device this holiday season, this is one to watch carefully. I’ve had the device in my hands now for about 30 minutes and already am very excited about it for 3 main reasons.

Excitement reason #1: POIs

TeleNav says it has 11 million POIs. The local Ikea, for some reason, shows up on no GPS devices that I have tested except my TeleNav phone GPS. No surprise that the Shotgun finds it easily as well. So far, the TeleNav’s connected search has always been able to find every location I’ve searched for. I cannot say the same for Garmin, Navigon and Dash. Keep reading about what other points make the Shotgun a damn good GPS.

Everybody hates being caught by speed cameras: it is annoying, humiliating and also expensive, and that is why Novus have come up with the “Mini Coyote” which allows drivers to alert others of speed cameras in as little as three seconds. The little gadget will sit on your dashboard, and when you spot a speed camera that isn’t already in the database you press the handy button and before you know it everyone with that gadget knows of it.

“Brilliant!” I hear you cry, finally a way to beat those money grabbing machines, which it does quite effectively. Although this idea isn’t new, the super speed at which it does it allows the community of users to quickly build up a good idea of where all the speed traps are due to the fact that it only takes 3 seconds. The little gadget will then tell you if you are approaching any speed cameras, your speed, and will tell you to slow down if you are going too fast thus avoiding a fine.

Plenty more after the break.