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Updated May 4th, 2012 Slightly ahead of schedule (previous maps were available February 7th, 2012), Garmin have now released the fourteenth Map update installment under the nuMaps Lifetime program, the CityNavigator NT 2013.10. These new maps are likely based on the Navteq Q1/2012 release.
Updated February 7th, 2012 - Slightly ahead of schedule (previous maps were available November 10th, 2011), Garmin have now released the thirteenth Map update installment under the nuMaps Lifetime program, the CityNavigator NT 2012.40. These new maps are...
Updated February 15th, 2012 Almost exactly a year (01/26/2011) after granting LightSquared a conditional waiver for their terrestrial network in spite of the quantified warnings of the GPS industry, the FCC reversed course today following a report by the NTIA that "there is no practical way to mitigate potential interference at this time"...
So was all this fuss necessary ? Well possibly, because the FCC explains that the fault lies with the GPS receivers currently on the market that do not filter the LightSquared frequencies properly but that it would be too costly to the economy to replace them...You can use the Lightsquared - GPS Jamming - FCC Pulls the Plug topic in the "GPS and Mobile News" forums to discuss.
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...
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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