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The Navigon 8100 is a little bit more upscale than your average ‘budget’ GPS. It features a brushed metal shell, 4.8-inch wide touchscreen, voice recognition, faster route calculation, and a 3D accelerator to process the 3D imagery. Its also got the ‘normal’ things you’d expect in a GPS.

Features:

* 533MHz processor
* 128MB of RAM
* 4.8″ (480 x 272 WQVGA) touchscreen
* Bluetooth
* FM transmitter
* Picture viewer
* Music player
* Traffic Message Channel Pro (TMC Pro) - for traffic updates
* Voice recognition
* Lane Assist
* PanoramaView 3D (shows terrain and other geographic information)
* Outlook address synchronization

The Navigon 8100 should hit Europe by the end of April for 449 Euros ($683). No word on a North American release.

Read the press release here (in German).

Via: Electronista and TravelTechTalk

Called the nuvifone, Garmin has stuffed a GPS, phone, and touchscreen into a sleek, hand held device. Garmin touts that the device is easy to use, so it’s 3.5-inch display only offers three main buttons: Call, Search, and View Map. Interestingly, when the device is docked onto is vehicle mount, the nuvifone automatically goes into GPS mode. The phone is able to seamlessly transition from taking a phone call to GPS mode and vice versa.

One of the requested features on the iPhone is a real GPS system, this *may* be an alternative.

The nuvifone will hit stores around Q3 2008, with an unknown price tag.

UPDATE: The nuviphone also features HSDPA, quad-band GSM, Wi-Fi, and Bluetooth. It also supports MP3 and MPEG4/AAC file formats.

Product page.

Via: Engadget