Cheap Geek: $5 Romance Albums, Garmin GPS, Sony DVD Burner, MacMall Sale

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Valentine’s Day is tomorrow, and if you need to fill the void of being alone, try these hot bargains. Here are Gearlog’s deals for Friday, Feb. 13:

1. Amazon’s Friday Sale offers five of the top 100 romantic albums of all time. Choose form albums such as Marvin Gaye’s “Let’s Get it On,” “Nat King Cole Sings for Two in Love,” “Barry White Plays for Someone You Love,” Aretha Franklin’s “I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You,” and Portishead’s “Dummy,” for just $5 each.

2. Amazon is also offering the Garmin Colorado 300 Bilingual Handheld GPS Navigator for 50 percent off. It has a built-in basemap, high-sensitivity receiver, barometric altimeter, electronic compass, SD card slot, color display, picture viewer, and more. Originally $499.99, you can now have the GPS navigator for $249.99.

3. Get the Sony External USB 2.0 Dual-Layer 20X DVD Burner from Sellout.woot for just $34.99. The DVD burner is normally $99.99.

4. MacMall is having a President’s Day sale on iPod and Mac accessories, software, HDTVs, and other electronics. Save up to $84 on MacBooks, up to $1,044 on MacBook Pros, and up to $1,194 on MacBook Airs. Check out the whole sale here.

Toshiba TG01 gets CoPilot GPS app, takes you to camp

What’s there to say about the TG01? It’s under ten millimeters thin, rocks a GPS and a 4.1-inch display, and with that 1GHz Snapdragon chip under the proverbial hood, we’re counting on some serious multimedia action. Now that we’re gearing up for MWC, ALK Technologies has just announced that it’s making the CoPilot Live GPS nav system available for the guy. The app promises full-featured turn-by-turn navigation and both 3D and 2D widescreen map views, and real-time services like traffic alerts, fuel price info, and weather conditions. Additionally, this bad boy supports safety camera alerts, with free database updates available for download directly to the phone. Specifics — such as price and release date — to be announced.

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Cowon L3 officially announced (for Asia)

We saw this one coming quite a while back, but it looks like the Cowon L3 satnav / PMP is officially official now. We stil haven’t got full specs on this baby yet, but the 7-incher’s got a 700×480 resolution, an unnamed dual core CPU, 128MB of SDRAM, 4GB of memory, an SD Slot, and GPS, and a fuel consumption indicator. We don’t have any specific information as to availability — though it’s unlikely it’ll ever get anywhere near North America — or pricing yet, but we’ll let you know as soon as we do!

Update: Full specs at the read link now on Cowon’s site!

[Via Akihabara News, thanks Jeff]

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Cowon L3 officially announced (for Asia) originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 12 Feb 2009 17:52:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Garmin Unveils Windows-Mobile Smartphone

Garmin_nuvifone_M20.jpgGarmin has announced the Windows-Mobile-powered nuvifone M20, the second handset in the nuvifone series after the G60, in a preview ahead of Mobile World Congress in Barcelona next week. The nuvifone M20 runs Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional and sports a 2.8-inch touchscreen full VGA (640-by-480-pixel) LCD, 4GB or 8GB of storage, and an HSDPA 7.2 3G data radio.

In addition, the handset features the same level of satellite navigation as Garmin’s standalone units, according to the company. It comes preloaded with maps and points of interest for North America as well as Eastern and Western Europe. It also features Connected Services, a suite of online applications and data from Garmin-Asus that adds location intelligence to navigation, phone and browser functions, for real-time traffic information, White Pages, weather, flight status, local events, and movie times.

Finally, the nuvifone M20 works with Ciao, a location-based social networking service that keeps owners in touch with their friends and family. No word yet on pricing or availability; expect an announcement from Garmin sometime in the first half of this year on that front.

TeleNav launches GPS navigation for the G1

They finally, really did it. Have you been lugging around that G1 and a GPS unit, grunting disdainfully every time you have to bust the latter out? Well it looks like TeleNav has heard your cries of disgust. The company is officially launching its turn-by-turn GPS navigation for the Android-powered device come February 24th. The software will feature full color 3D graphics, speech recognition, one-click rerouting, and traffic alerts, as well as weather updates, gas prices, and restaurant reviews (the PR claims over 10 million business and services). The service will launch with a 30-day free trial, after which it’ll run you $9.99 a month. While we can’t say we’re too stoked on the price, it’s still not too terrible of a fee to pay to actually put that GPS chip to use (and save some room in your glove compartment). Convergence: we’re almost there.


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TeleNav launches GPS navigation for the G1 originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 12 Feb 2009 08:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Epson’s tiny GPS receiver will make everything location aware

Small, right? That’s Epson’s Infineon XPOSYS chip, its next generation Assisted-GPS device set for mass production in late 2009. The chip measures just 2.8 x 2.9-mm making it 25% smaller than other A-GPS chips on the market, according to Epson, while consuming half the power. The sensitivity has also been improved for a more accurate location fix while indoors. Between this, Google Latitude, and the ever expanding lineup of Skyhook positioning devices, you can kiss your location anonymity goodbye.

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Cheap Geek: Half-Off Romantic Comedies, Wii Fit Bundle, Garmin GPS

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Valentine’s Day is just three days away. If you haven’t already seen Part One and Part Two of Gearlog’s geeky Valentine’s gifts, check them out. But if you’re looking for more of a bargain, check out Gearlog’s deals for Wednesday, Feb. 11:

1. Gearing up for Valentine’s Day, Amazon is having a sale on romantic comedies. Save up to 50 percent off on these heart-pounding chick flicks (yes, guys can buy these too). Get great titles like the 20th anniversary edition of “The Princess Bride,” or “Say Anything,” for just $4.99. Check out the sale now, it ends today.

2. Get the Wii Fit 5-in-1 Fitness Bundle by Dreamgear from Buy.com for just $36.99 with free shipping. The bundle is regularly $59.99. The kit includes three pairs of textured foot socks, a rechargeable battery pack, a USB charging cable, Jeli sleeves, fitness mat, and a travel bag.

3. Amazon’s Deal of the Day is the Garmin nüvi 760 4.3-Inch Widescreen Bluetooth Portable GPS Automobile Navigator. Normally $237.79, the GPS system is selling for $199.99. It has advanced navigation features, a widescreen display, preloaded maps, an FM transmitter, hands-free calling, traffic alerts, and more. But act fast, the deal is only good for today.

CSR gobbles up GPS chipmaker SiRF

Well, it looks like a few pesky patent issues weren’t enough to keep CSR, mostly known for its Bluetooth chips, from snapping up omnipresent GPS chipmaker SiRF, with the two companies today announcing that they’re set to fully combine their companies into one giant chipmaking operation. Under the all-share transaction valued at some $132.7 million, SiRF shareholders will get 27 percent of the newly formed company, to be known as CSR, while two SiRF directors will also get seats on the CSR board. Any further details are a bit hard to come by but, as CNET’s Business Tech points out, CSR has increasingly been focusing on all-in-one solutions combining Bluetooth, WiFi, and whatnot, so it would stand to reason that SiRF’s GPS know-how could be added to the mix.

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Sony’s GPS-CS3KA GPS image tracker coming in March

Sony last upgraded its CS1 GPS image tracker around this time last year, and as PMA 2009 draws ever closer, we’re seeing the outfit quietly introduce that unit’s proper successor. The GPS-CS3KA takes on a slightly more modern design and promises compatibility with nearly every Cyber-shot digital still camera and Handycam camcorder out there. Essentially, the utility here is the same as before — keep it on your person while shooting, then let the Picture Motion Browser software sync up data with the time stamps on your photos. Once done, you’ll get a nifty Google Map showing where you photographed each image. This unit also sports dual MS / SD card slots and can run for almost 15 hours on a single AA cell. We’re almost guaranteed a look at this early next month in Vegas, but the general public will have to wait until it ships in late March for $149.99.

[Via NaviGadget]

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Harman, Mercedes working on modular built-in nav systems

Anyone’s who’s bought a car with a built-in nav system knows the pain of seeing their expensive accessory totally eclipsed by even the cheapest external GPS units just a year or two later — everything from UI to multimedia integration progresses so fast it’s almost not worth it. That might change soon, though — Harman and Mercedes are working on a “hybrid” nav system that combines the easy replaceability of an external PND with the integration and sleek looks of a built-in system. The goal is to build a standard design that can upgraded quickly — right now OEM systems have to be designed almost three years in advance — so the screen and controls will be mounted on the dash in a cradle, while a second hidden “processing box” will handle the actual GPS system, music storage and playback, and Bluetooth connectivity. Harman says eventually prices should fall to the point where automakers can compete with aftermarket GPS systems — we’ll see if that hold up when Mercedes ships the new kit in eight vehicles scheduled for the second half of 2010.

[Via Gearlog]

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Harman, Mercedes working on modular built-in nav systems originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 07 Feb 2009 05:08:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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