Garmin cares about our health, that’s why the company has just announced a new fitness device that aims to ensure that our health and fitness needs are taken care of during the upcoming holiday season. So, here comes the Garmin FR70 fitness watch, a sleek fitness watch and workout tool combined into one nifty device. more »

The 34th America’s Cup has selected Garmin as it’s provider of GPS gear for the World Series and Louis Vuitton Cup leading up to the 2013 finals in San Francisco. The speedy catamarans selected for these events will feature Garmins touch screen chart plotters providing the competitors with pinpoint position, key metrics and management of more »

Most care manufacturers in the US offer a sweet electronics package that includes an in-dash GPS system as an option. If you’ve ever wondered if there are any “gotchas” in buying these systems, here’s one: map upgrades. Let’s take a quick look at the costs to upgrade these systems. The stand alone GPS device market more »

And just like that, the Nuvifone is dead. Announced today, Garmin and ASUS are done introducing mobile handsets that combined Garmin’s GPS brand with ASUStek. ASUStek will go their own way building mobile phones that might use Garmin as a GPS solution while Garmin will rely on selling their services through “certain consumer application stores”. more »

It looks like existing T-Mobile customers can get a deal on the navigation minded Garminfone. The handset had recently been dropped to $129.99 for everyone, and now current customers can get the phone with an additional $30 savings — $99.99. That said, same rules apply in order to get the price. Aside from being a more »

Price drops on brand new phones usually aren’t good. A price drop just a few weeks after launch is even worse. We’ve seen it happen with the Kin phones, and we all know how that turned out. Now it looks to be happening to the Garminfone. When the Garminfone was released last month, T-Mobile priced more »

Chocolate or vanilla? Mustard or ketchup? Cream or sugar? Add the Nuvi phone to life’s tough choices with their new phones officially announced today: the Android-powered A50 and Windows Mobile M10. Asus/Garmin announced these phones just as the Mobile World Congress is just getting underway in Barcelona, Spain. The A50 is said to have “more more »

Japanese electronics giant Pioneer has filed suit against Garmin claiming the company is infringing on some of its patents that cover in car navigation technology. Pioneer has asked the International Trade Commission to block Garmin from importing the products that use the allegedly infringing technology. “Pioneer has been negotiating in good faith also with Garmin more »

As we approach the holiday season, expect deals to become more frequent and enticing. This weekend, we have deals on a portable LCD HDTV screen, Garmin GPS, a computer monitor, Garmin Forerunner watch, and a LG HDTV.

If you are a mobile phone fan like me, so far CTIA has been a bit disappointing. Two phones that I have been looking forward to fondling are reportedly major duds and have each earned a “don’t touch with a 10 foot pole” warning. It is up to Google and Verizon to cheer me up. more »