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NovAtel Introduces SMART-MR10 GNSS Receiver/Antenna for On-Machine Environments

admin — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 09:20:25 +0000

NovAtel Inc., an original equipment manufacturer (OEM) of precise positioning technology, today introduced the latest addition to their SMART antenna line. The SMART-MR10 is the first in a new family of gps kids watch+GLONASS L1+L2+L-band integrated receiver and antenna products. Housed in a rugged enclosure, the SMART-MR family is designed specifically for on-machine agriculture, construction, and mining applications.

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Peg’s Posts: Touchscreen Edge 800–get your hands on it

admin — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 09:20:22 +0000

The Eurobike show opened today in Friedrichshafen, Germany, drawing 40,000 visitors and 1,600 journalists. This is where the trends on two wheels are set on a worldwide stage. And we couldn’t be more proud to be there showcasing Edge 800 — the first touchscreen gps kids watch-enabled bike computer. Our booth will have an ongoing stream of gear-loving press and cyclists who want to be among the first to get their hands on this fine device. Once they start to play, they’ll discover there’s a lot more to the Edge 800 than good looks. Providing navigation and performance monitoring, it’s ideal for the “I wanna get lost but still find my way back” mountain bikers, the touring/commuting/recreational crowd and the performance cyclists, including the pros from Team Garmin. Congrats to Team Garmin’s Tyler Farrar for winning the sprint finish at the Vuelta a España today!

Last Friday, I had a chance to take the 800 out for its maiden voyage. This was a lunchtime ride with four cycling coworkers who’ve been collectively logging lots of miles from Garmin HQ. Needless to say, I didn’t have a chance to touch, tap and admire the Edge during this ride. I have to work my tail off to not get dropped by this group, but that’s exactly the way I like to roll. Our group included Owen, our lead-out man who rides for a local cycling team. Matt, who’s strong as an ox and I believe could pull me up the Tourmalet in a headwind. Scott, who holds a steady line ideal to draft off and probably has more bike miles logged than the rest of us put together and squared. And then there’s Ryan, who, in the span of about a month, ran his first half marathon, got hitched, biked across Iowa, signed up for his first marathon and committed to his first MS150 ride. Ryan was also Edge 800-equipped for this ride. Here’s a peek at our short-but-sweet ride in Garmin Connect.

From a Garmin insider who’s accustomed to our engineers pulling out all the stops, I have to say, our fitness team really outdid themselves on this one. The display is beautiful and crisp, the touchscreen very responsive. And knowing our design engineers have put this unit through the testing rigors, I’ll have no worries getting caught in the rain or subjecting it to the elements. Can’t wait to take it on a 70-mile ride this coming Monday. What better way to celebrate Labor Day than a long ride? Stay tuned for more Edge 800 news. And if you’re lucky enough to be at Eurobike this week, be sure to stop by our booth, A5-201. Or see us at Interbike, Sept. 22-24, booth 2631.

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Victor’s Vectors: Customizable checklists now on GPSMAP 696 and G3X

admin — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 09:20:19 +0000

Laptop, Check. gps kids watchMAP 696, Check. A Blog topic for this week, Check! Garmin’s engineers are at it again. Recently they have added a new feature to the 696 that will allow customers to add customized checklists. That’s right. No more flipping through a multitude of pages for Pre-Flight, Engine Start, Taxi, Pre-Takeoff, and etc. With the 696 and G3X you can literally make your own checklist and check off the items as you complete them. Still don’t believe me? Then check it out yourself with the free checklist editor here.

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The “The slim profile and large, sharp screen make this nüvi one of the most portable and best-looking standalone gps kids watch devices that we’ve tested,” raved CNET in their gps kids watch-navigation/garmin-nuvi-3790t/4505-3430_7-34079084.html?tag=rvwBody#reviewPage1″>just-posted review of the nüvi 3790T. In fact, they were so impressed with this nüvi’s design, features and performance, they gave it 4.5 stars and deemed the new 3790T an Editors’ Choice pick! In addition to being the “best looking” PND they’ve tested, CNET also liked the voice command feature that lets you truly be hands-free by speaking the words you see on the screen or by speaking certain commands, the included traffic data, and Bluetooth capability. The bottom line? According to CNET, “the Garmin nüvi 3790T is an exceptional portable navigation device with just the right blend of form and function.”

If you agree and think this is one nüvi you can’t live without, don’t forget to follow @Garmin on Twitter for a chance to win a top-of-the-line nüvi 3790T of your own! All you have to do is hit “retweet” on the weekly key phrase, and Twitter will take care of the rest! To be eligible to win, you have to retweet the entire phrase, be following Garmin, and be a resident of the U.S. And be sure to retweet the key phrase each and every week throughout the contest, because we start from scratch every Friday at noon. Click here to go the Week 2 key phrase to retweet. Good luck!

To learn more about the nüvi 3790T, check out out interactive minisite and these tutorial vidoes.

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More 2011 roster additions announced for Team Garmin

admin — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 09:20:14 +0000

It’s been a busy week for Team Garmin, which becomes Team Garmin-Cervélo in 2011. The team issued the following press release with more exciting roster announcements as Eurobike kicked off, marking the debut of the new touchscreen Edge 800.

BOULDER, COLORADO (September 1, 2010) — Slipstream Sports today announced six additions to the 2011 roster, marking the remaining Cervélo TestTeam riders to join the newly formed Team Garmin-Cervélo.

Roger Hammond (UK), Heinrich Haussler (AUS), Andreas Klier (GER), Brett Lancaster (AUS), Daniel Lloyd (UK) and Gabriel Rasch (NOR) will join teammate Thor Hushovd (NOR) in 2011. These seven will be joining Garmin riders including Tyler Farrar, Ryder Hesjedal, Christian Vande Velde, David Zabriskie and Dan Martin.

“Team Garmin-Cervélo’s roster will be strong and versatile,” said Jonathan Vaughters, CEO, Slipstream Sports. “All of these riders bring a lot of experience to what’s already a great team. I’m proud of what we’ve done since 2008, and I’m excited for what we’ll do in 2011.”

The creation of Team Garmin-Cervélo is still under development. More information, including an official team roster, will be released as it becomes available.

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Record-holder Ryan Hall on his Forerunner & Garmin Connect

admin — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 09:20:11 +0000

When we talk about how Garmin’s Forerunner 110 is meant to simply answer runners’ two most important questions – How fast and how far? – the answers get even easier when the runner is Ryan Hall. How fast? Very. How far? Very.

While Forerunner 110 is easy enough for beginners training for their first 5K, its gps kids watch-enabled features are powerful and accurate enough for elite runners such as Ryan. Check out this video from Ryan’s YouTube channel (which is full of helpful training tips) and hear him talk about his favorite features … while he runs … uphill … at a 7-minute pace. Sigh. And to learn more about these easy-to-use features, visit our online learning center and watch Peg’s demonstrations in the short tutorial videos.

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CNET Editors’ Choice goes to nüvi 3790T

admin — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 09:20:03 +0000

"The slim profile and large, sharp screen make this nüvi one of the most portable and best-looking standalone gps kids watch devices that we've tested," raved CNET in their gps kids watch-navigation/garmin-nuvi-3790t/4505-3430_7-34079084.html?tag=rvwBody#reviewPage1″>just-posted review of the nüvi 3790T. In fact, they were so impressed with this nüvi's design, features and performance, they gave it 4.5 stars and deemed the new 3790T an Editors' Choice pick! In addition to being the "best looking" PND they've tested, CNET also liked the voice command feature that lets you truly be hands-free by speaking the words you see on the screen or by speaking certain commands, the included traffic data, and Bluetooth capability. The bottom line? According to CNET, "the Garmin nüvi 3790T is an exceptional portable navigation device with just the right blend of form and function."

If you agree and think this is one nüvi you can't live without, don't forget to follow @Garmin on Twitter for a chance to win a top-of-the-line nüvi 3790T of your own! All you have to do is hit "retweet" on the weekly key phrase, and Twitter will take care of the rest! To be eligible to win, you have to retweet the entire phrase, be following Garmin, and be a resident of the U.S. And be sure to retweet the key phrase each and every week throughout the contest, because we start from scratch every Friday at noon. Click here to go the Week 2 key phrase to retweet. Good luck!

To learn more about the nüvi 3790T, check out out interactive minisite and these tutorial vidoes.

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Air Force Reorganization May Drastically Affect GPS Program

admin — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 09:20:18 +0000

The U.S. Department of Defense has totally revamped the USAF portion of National Security Space. A communiqué on this subject has appeared, signed by the Under Secretary for the Air Force, although the changes it puts in place are of an order of importance that certainly indicates decisions taken at a higher level, most likely by Secretary of Defense Robert Gates.

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Team Garmin adds new sponsor and Norwegian champ Thor Hushovd

admin — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 09:20:15 +0000

Thor Hushovd, Norwegian Road Race Champion, nine-time Tour de France stage winner and 2009 green jersey holder, will ride for Team Garmin-Cervélo in 2011. Team Garmin-Transitions and Cervélo SA announced last week they will join forces for the 2011 season to create a new team that will be known as Garmin-Cervélo.

“I’m proud to join Team Garmin-Cervélo in 2011. Cervélo has been a great supporter for the past two years and its partnership with Garmin feels like a good fit,” said Hushovd. “I chose Garmin-Cervélo because I have a lot of respect for what Jonathan Vaughters has done for cycling, because I think we’ll have a very strong, competitive team, and because I’ll be able to continue to work with Cervélo. I look forward to seeing what we can all do together next year.”

Hushovd started racing at age 9 and went on to win the under-23 time trial world championship and the under-23 versions of Paris-Roubaix and Paris-Tours. He turned professional in 2000 and is considered one of the best sprinters, time trialists, and Classics riders in the world. Hushovd has twice finished in the top three of Paris-Roubaix and will focus on a strong Classics campaign with Garmin-Cervélo.

“We are incredibly excited to bring Thor to the team in 2011,” said Jonathan Vaughters, CEO of Slipstream Sports. “One of our goals is to become stronger in the Classics, and adding a world-class rider like Thor will get us there. He’s an exceptionally talented rider and a great fit for our new team.”

“I’m going to focus my season on the Classics,” said Hushovd. “My biggest goal is to get one major Classics victory in 2011. I’ve come close over the past few years so I will build on that experience and hopefully, stand on the podium with my new team.”

The creation of the new team is still under development. More information, including official team rosters, will become available in the October timeframe.

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GPSMAP 76S survives run in (and over) with a car

admin — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 09:20:04 +0000

Many people don’t realize that when we’re developing products we put them through extreme test conditions. We drop ‘em, dunk ‘em, freeze ‘em, and heat ‘em, and that’s just a few of the tests engineering puts products through. We’re proud that our devices are rugged and can stand up to the challenges our customers give them — even accidental challenges. Here’s a great testimonial sent to the Garmin inbox from Kevin, a satisfied Garmin customer, and his gps kids watchMAP 76s that survived his accidental challenge.

I just thought that you would like to know that your products have gone up a notch or two in my book this week. I always like to give credit where credit is due, and I think that your products have earned some praise following an accident I had with one during a recent road trip.

I’ve been a Garmin customer for many years now, and currently use a Foretrex 101 and gps kids watchMAP 76S for hiking here in Colorado. I also still have my original Garmin unit (a “gps kids watch 40″ from the mid 1990’s). All of these units have performed as advertised, though I never had the opportunity to subject them to a true durability test…until this week.

I often keep the gps kids watchMAP 76S in my vehicle when I travel, and that was the case during the past week when I traveled to Ohio to visit family. Unfortunately I wasn’t very careful with the storage of my gps kids watch on this trip, and didn’t realize that the unit had been knocked out of my car’s door pocket while I was unloading the vehicle at my parent’s house. When I backed out of the driveway a short time later, I immediately felt a solid bump as the front wheel of my vehicle drove squarely over my gps kids watch unit.

I honestly didn’t even realize that I had driven over my gps kids watch unit at the time, and I got out of the car expecting to find that I had run over a brick (or some other equally inconsequential item) in the driveway. I was greatly disappointed when I saw my gps kids watch laying in front of my tire on the pavement. Although this unit was being stored in a soft-sided nylon case, this case is not really padded in any way, and certainly wasn’t designed to protect the product from anything more than the most minor abuse.

When I opened the carrying case I was surprised to see that my gps kids watch unit had not been completely destroyed (I expected that it would have been crushed and/or cracked). I was also shocked to see that the screen appeared undamaged, and the only mark on the unit was a small (and very superficial) scratch near the antenna area on the unit’s case. I immediately turned the gps kids watch on, and was surprised to see that the unit still functioned normally. The device quickly acquired a satellite fix, and the backlight functioned just as it always had.

Given that I had originally purchased this gps kids watch unit for use during sea kayaking trips, I was well aware of the fact that it is designed to float. Because I had just driven over this device with a car, I was also concerned that the integrity of the case may have been compromised during my unplanned quality control test. However, as you can see in the picture I attached, my gps kids watch unit is still functioning normally - even while it floats in a sink full of water, after being run over by nearly 3,000 lbs worth of vehicle!

In my opinion, that’s pretty impressive for an 8-year-old precision electronic device! Thanks for making a great product, and I’ll be sure to look to Garmin again as I begin to shop for a vehicle-based gps kids watch system!

Thanks, Kevin, for sharing this great story! To learn more about our other rugged and waterproof marine handheld products, visit the On The Water section of Garmin.com.

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