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Updated December 14th, 2011 The battle rages on between Lightsquared and the GPS industry around the impact of LightSquared's proposed 4G/LTE network using frequencies adjacent to the GPS frequencies, with renewed testing and a potential launch in late 2012.
Developments since May include the finding that GPS receivers were not designed as well as they could have been in terms of frequency filtering as there was no expectation to have to deal with high power transmissions on adjacent frequencies. One "fix" suggested by LiqhtSquared would be to reduce the power of their transmissions, so more testing is required. You can use the Lightsquared - GPS Jamming - saveourgps.org topic in the "GPS and Mobile News" forums to discuss.
Updated May 27th, 2011 - As requested by the FCC a Technical Working Group (TWC) was established to determine the impact of LightSquared's proposed 4G/LTE network using frequencies adjacent to the GPS frequencies. The working group has now published three monthly progress reports and the latest one dated...
Updated November 10th, 2011 Spot on schedule (previous maps released August 5th, 2011), Garmin have now released the twelfth Map update installment under the nuMaps Lifetime program, the CityNavigator NT 2012.20. These new maps are likely based on the Navteq Q3/2011 release.
Updated August 8th, 2011 - Right on schedule (previous maps released May 3rd, 2011), Garmin have now released the eleventh Map update installment under the nuMaps Lifetime program...
Updated October 11th, 2011 The nuvi 3490T was announced at the end of August at the IFA Tradeshow in Germany and is now available in the USA, Europe will have to wait it seems. It's not quite clear why Garmin chose to "number down" the new nuvi compared to the excellent and very well received 3790T, maybe because of the 24xx models?
We already have some very enlightening user reviews in the [TOPIC] nuvi 3490LMT - User Reviews in the Garmin nüvi forums. In spite of the new features like advanced detours, a manual speed limit, POI display or very fast POI lookups, there is some disappointment from the road mainly due to map display issues (loss of detail) and slow redraws. Hopefully this will be fixed with software updates.
Updated April 22nd, 2011 - The nuvi 3790T, Garmin's current flagship road GPS although it lacks features available on the nuvi 24xx and dezl 560 (nuMenu and advanced avoidances) is still getting regular updates from Garmin...
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