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Top Travel Gadgets for 2011

by olagaballah on July 6, 2011

Looking to shop for gadgets before you set off on your travel trip? And of course you have so many “must-have” have list which are sometimes necessary and sometimes not needed. So try to focus and have a look at the best gadgets in 2011. Have a nice trip and enjoy your gadget.

Nokia OVi Map with 3D View

by Sami on April 22, 2011

Nokia has equipped with OVi Map with 3D realistic view. Nokia web version of its map service is available under maps.ovi.com/3d three-dimensional of first twenty cities which includes:  Barcelona, ​​Los Angeles, New York, Prague, Venice and Vienna. Other renown cities will be included by the time. This has been announced by the Finnish mobile phone [...]

Driverless Vehicles Make Trip form Italy to China

by nmafzal on October 29, 2010

Electric Powered, driver-less, full of gadgets and support staff on board, that’s exactly what the four vans had in them to complete a 13,000 journey from Italy to China, driver-less. The route included city roads, country roads and deserts passing through a long list of countries. The vehicles had cameras, GPS, laser scanners and electronics, PCs running specialized software, for the dreadful journey. This was actually part of an experiment aimed at studying the vast amounts of data that is now collected

We’ve seen many rugged phones and then some Rugged SmartPhones & Top Rugged SmartPhones which are shock, dust and water proof and are IP-67 compliant. What sets Seals VR7 different from these is mainly the inclusion of GPS and SOS signaling. In case of emergencies and harsh conditions you can set this phone to issue an SOS Morese code to 5 mobile numbers along with GPS position ( latitude and longitude). It can send optical signals using light just like life guards.

Smart phones now come with GPS devices for better navigation, however, most require a GPRS connection to download maps. This at times is not only slow but also costs money. Thankfully, other options exist using which one can download maps to his/her mobile device from the Internet for offline viewing. What this means is, you won’t have to pay for network charges at all!

How to Avoid Fourth of July Traffic Jams and Busy Routes

by Muzzammil Waheed July 3, 2010

For upcoming 4th July holiday you must be thinking about travel options, With travel options one must keep in mind the traffic situations and try to avoid traffic jams which are quite common on public holidays. As far as worries about traffic jams are concerned, latest technology options can help you , consider following tips and solutions to avoid traffic jams

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DondeEsta! For Mobile phones running Symbian and Windows Mobile

by nauman November 10, 2009

In Spanish DondeEsta means where is he, she, it or you. In Nokia mobile phones running Symbian or other ones running Windows Mobile it means a lot more. It means being able to locate the mobile phone and hence its owner wherever he, she or it may be. The application is a mere 52 kb [...]

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xpPhone, is it for real?

by nauman November 2, 2009

It’s a mobile phone, a GPS and a NetBook all three bundled in to one neat device running Windows XP and weighing about 400 gm. The screen size is 4.8”, it is a touch screen off course. Let us first of all have a look at its specs: AMD Super Mobile Processor 1 GB RAM [...]

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Samsung M8910 Pixon12

by nauman October 30, 2009

If you have ever in your life wanted to buy an SLR or an expensive digital camera I will urge you to think again, because Samsung is out to do some major damage to the camera industry as well. I mean look at the Samsung M8910 Pixon12, which happens to be a mobile phone with [...]

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Garmin’s nüvifone, a GPS with Mobile phone features

by nauman October 6, 2009

Pick out any Smartphone in the market today and it is sure to have a GPS built in to it. The availability of advanced applications make it even easier to navigate and get directions. But  when Garmin teams up with Asustek to add mobile phone functionality to a GPS cum navigation device the result is [...]

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