Navman today announced its world picture-sharing community NavPix with the addition of North America in which people from around the world can share pictures and associated GPS coordinates of places they’ve been. Be it New Yorks Empire State Building or San Francisco’s Golden Gate Brige or the Winchester Mystery House in San Jose, one simply needs to login at NavPix.net to get the stash onto their iCN-750.

“Navigating with images is as simple as picture, touch and drive,” said Stephen Lee, director of product management, Navman USA. “Our ongoing effort to provide geo-referenced images taken by professional photographers across the United States and Canada, as well as our partnership with Lonely Planet, ensures Navman customers an up-to-date NavPix community and an ever-expanding resource for enhancing their personal NavPix image libraries.”

Sporting 30 major metro areas in North America, each location will have between 25-50 destinations. With an image, coordinates, title of the image, and even a brief description of the destination, getting there couldn’t be easier. Venues feature hotels, monuments, restaurants, amusement parks, museums. A good start to a great vacation!

If you don’t know much about the Navman iCN 750, then be sure to read SvenOnTech’s review of it for the full in-depth scoop!

Okay, we can finally go to sleep now. We just finished writing, proof reading, formatting, proof reading, and posting our 11 page review of the Navman iCN 750 super-uber GPS unit. It does more than just getting you to point B, it lets you take a picture of point B! We also love, love, LOVED the POI database. Man, the best in the business. Dude, there’s a nail store by my house and I didn’t even know! (Now I need to keep this important information from my wife. ).

Hey, what can we say? We loved the iCN 750 and we thing you will too. Give it a read and grab a BIG cup of coffee, ’cause you’ll be sittin’ for a while as you read our kick butt review!

For Palm(R) Treo(TM) smartphone users and GPS enthusiasts, Palm Inc. (Nasdaq:PALM) today announced the Palm GPS Navigator Smartphone Edition, featuring new TomTom NAVIGATOR 6 software. Drivers using the new GPS Navigator with their Treo smartphones can rely on voice-guided, turn-by-turn directions to easily find their destinations as well as millions of points of interest, including gas stations, restaurants, parks, airports and more. TomTom NAVIGATOR 6 is available today exclusively for Palm’s GPS Navigator Smartphone Edition.

Palm’s new Bluetooth(R) enabled SiRFstarIII(TM) GPS receiver, which features a sleek design and easier-to-see LED lights, seamlessly pairs with Palm Treo 650, Treo 700w and Treo 700p smartphones. The product is simple to set up, thanks to a 1GB memory card preloaded with maps. Travelers simply pop the memory card into their Treo smartphone and pair the GPS receiver to access highway and street-level maps covering the United States and Canada. No desktop syncing or downloading of maps is required. Using the smartphone’s high-resolution screen, TomTom’s NAVIGATOR 6 software automatically shows the receiver’s (and hence, the car’s) current location.

“Smartphones are expanding the market for mobile navigation,” said Jim Schwabe, general manager of accessories for Palm, Inc. “The beauty is that this powerful GPS solution is always readily available because it’s part of something people are carrying anyway — their Treo smartphone.”

“The convergence of portable navigation devices is growing in the United States,” said Jocelyn Vigreux, president of TomTom. “Palm’s bundle offering with TomTom’s new NAVIGATOR 6 software reflects our joint efforts to continue providing customers with essential smartphone solutions. The Treo smartphone series provides an ideal platform for portable navigation.”

TomTom is the leading provider of personal navigation products and services. TomTom NAVIGATOR 6 software offers coast-to-coast and cross-border navigation, as well as new and enhanced options. New features include trip planning based on preferred arrival time, speed-limit information and integrated navigation to the smartphone’s contact list.

How It Works

The Bluetooth technology-enabled receiver identifies the car’s position using satellites. By communicating with the GPS receiver via Bluetooth, the Treo smartphone obtains real-time location information and displays 3-D maps on the Treo smartphone’s high-resolution screen. After a destination has been programmed, TomTom NAVIGATOR gives voice-guided, turn-by-turn instructions in one of more than 30 available voices. It will also automatically recalculate a route after a wrong turn, avoid roadblocks or circumvent traffic congestion.

Pricing and Availability

At $299 (estimated U.S. street price), Palm’s GPS Navigator Smartphone Edition includes a Bluetooth enabled SiRFstarIII GPS receiver, TomTom NAVIGATOR 6 software featuring the latest Tele Atlas(R) maps, a 1GB memory card with preloaded maps of the continental United States and Canada, a vehicle device cradle with windshield mount and a charging system.

The GPS Navigator from Palm is now available at Palm’s online and retail stores.

Source Palm, Inc

So you and crew are hanging and it’s a Wednesday night and you know some new movie is about to premiere. Not knowing the area that you’re in too well, you don’t even know where the closest movie theater is, let alone what’s playing at it. You could call Moviefone and waste your minutes…if you knew the ZIP code you were in. Then maybe like 10 minutes later, you’d have an idea of what was playing were. Or, you can get your Palm or PocketPC out and tap open Movies on the Move.

Earthcomber’s new free software features show listings that cover nearly 5,400 theaters and 30,000 screens. With a Bluetooth GPS receiver near by, it’ll figure out where you are and tell you and the crew just what’s playing and where, all relative to where you be, homie!

“Real, up-to-date movie listings are one of the handiest things you can put on a PDA or your smart phone,” said Jim Brady, Earthcomber’s founder and president. “What makes Movies on the Move different is they all show up in order of how close to where you’re standing.”

With Movies on the Move, you can now be informed when you are nearing a theater by your PDA and stop in and take in a movie after reading the review on it. With its detailed listings of the movies, showtimes, and theaters, all slapped on a map on your screen, Movies on the Move may just be your new best tool on your PDA. At only at 1.5 to 3 MB, Movies on the Move won’t steal too much of your memory from your device or external card. Give it a try at Earthcomber’s site. Remember, it’s free!