Section: Communications, Smartphones, Mobile, Gadgets / Other, GPS/Navigation
One of the most popular GPS navigation apps for iPhone and iPad has just made its way to the Android Marketplace. Yes folks, CoPilot Live GPS navigation app for Android is now available and waiting for all of us Android phone owners in need of a good GPS navigation app. The new low-cost app is bringing in full-featured GPS navigation for only $4.99 and includes maps of USA which will be stored on your Android device once you get the app and pay its price.
Mind you, the app is not just your ordinary GPS navigation app but a feature-rich voice guided one. It gives you easy-to-follow, turn-by-turn guidance complete with high resolution 3D guidance views and voice directions to help you get your way through the streets. And like we mentioned, the maps are downloaded in full on your Android phones. So you don’t have to download these maps everytime you head out on a trip. This means you won’t be needing an internet connection everytime you use the app. Additionally, the app comes preloaded with millions of points of interest (POIs) such as gas stations, attractions, restaurants, and more.
Other features of CoPilot Live GPS navigation app for Android include - 14 days use of CoPilot Live’s Active Traffic info which calculates routes and ETAs based on current traffic conditions, local internet search and location-specific weather forecasts.
CoPilot Live for Android is available now from the Android Marketplace for a one-time fee of $4.99 and comes with unlimited use privilege. If you want the Active Traffic real-time traffic service, you have to shell out additional $9.99.
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Section: Computers, Gadgets / Other
With the dawn of USB 3.0, many companies have started creating products that most end users can’t even use tot heir full potential yet. Adoption of USB 3.0 has been fairly slow so far, despite just how fast the spec is. It’s fast enough that disc-based drives can’t even read and write data at the same speed, you need flash to get the kind of speeds USB 3.0 provides, which is just what Iomega is doing.
To provide us with the type of speeds USB 3.0 is capable of delivering, Iomega has announced a new line of external SSDs, the Iomega External USB 3.0 SSD Flash Drives. The new drive come in 64GB, 128GB and 256GB versions, all in 1.8-inch metal enclosures. The fact that there are no moving parts means the drives are safe from shocks, and Iomega promises that the enclosures mean your drive should be safe from drops of up to 10 feet. The drives come with some preinstalled software for security, backup, and encryption.
With the drives costing $229, $399, and $749 (for 64GB, 128GB and 256GB, respectively), it’s likely that only those professionals who can afford to upgrade to USB 3.0 will be able to afford these drives. For someone like a professional photographer, the price should be well worth if for the speed of the drives alone. For a speed comparison, these drives are 10 times as fast as USB 2.0 drives and twice as fast as a 7200 RPM HDD. Those speeds are quite impressive, the idea of those speeds make the high prices almost worth it for anybody.
Read [Iomega] Via [Gizmodo]
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