Magellan has just unleashed the Magellan RoadMate 5175T-LM GPS navigation device, which has built-in WiFi support. The Magellan RoadMate 5175T-LM, accessible now, is a full-featured GPS navigator with a vast 5″ high-resolution touchscreen, and includes several singular applications that capacitate business travelers to locate internal favorites for customer dinners and vacationers to devise daytrip excursions. With Wi-Fi connectivity that helps you download maps and updates within a wireless hotspot, It is a whole lot better than booting up a computer, downloading said update and installing it on your GPS device after that. “The Magellan RoadMate 5175T-LM is designed to go from the car to the boardroom to the hotel, helping to make summer and business travel planning a cinch,â€� said Mike Wagner, Senior Director, Product Marketing at Magellan GPS. ”

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Garmin Nuvi 2575 HD GPS Already Enter FCC. Garmin’s nuvi 2575 GPS unit made an appearance on the FCC today. The new GPS is called the Nuvi 2575. It spotted with an analog TV antenna which has capability as your mobile TV and also supported by TMC FM traffic data with real-time traffic updates as well as an optional Driving Recorder, Video can be recorded in high (1280×720) and medium (640×480) quality settings, and can be played back on the nuvi 2575 or exported.
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On October 5th, 2010, the Handheld Group introduced the Nautiz X3, the third member of the company’s Nautiz line of rugged handheld computers.The Nautiz X3 little device is the smallest and lightest rugged PDA to come from the company yet and has some nice specifications promising perforce for on the go workers. Designed for data collection tasks where traditional smartphones fear to tread, the Nautiz X3 joins the Algiz XRW netbook in Handheld’s range of portable devices for those who work in dangerous conditions – or who are particularly clumsy when it comes to portable electronics.

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Today Sharp has unveiled details on its two latest Android tablets the Sharp Galapagos tablets. The home model is a 10.8-inch LCD with a resolution of 1366 x 800, while the mobile version is only 5.5 inches with a 1024 x 600 resolution display. Their new Galapagos e-reader is a combination of tablet and ebook reader, where you will get a colorful screen (minus the touchscreen), trackball for navigation and capable of hooking up with the WiFi Hotspot (802.11b/g) to get content from the web.

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Aiptek has done with its Story Book inColor, which aims to sidestep the overcrowded adult market as the first full color ebook specifically designed for children.
Story Book inColor leverages all of the strengths of a children’s book and an ebook to entertain children and help them develop their reading skills. It comes with an 8″ TFT LCD pass at 800 x 600 partitioning alongside 20 pre-loaded books. The 1GB of internal memory is big enough to store up to 45 books, but capacity can be increased via SD/SDHC/MMC and MS Pro card or USB drive.

The ebook’s interface is designed for junior to navigate, with four large buttons used to browse stored books on a virtual bookcase and change pages of the book being read. Connecting the Story Book inColor to a PC via USB allows users to access an online shop to purchase new books and kids can share purchased books with friends to read together.

Aiptek’s Story Book inColor module retail for $199 each, where individualist titles retail anywhere between $3 to $4. Take a look at Aiptek Story Book inColor at Computex 2010 video.

TomTom has announced two new GPS devices, the XL 350 and the XXL 550. Both satnavs are for the US and are based on models from Europe that use the XL IQ routes. Both devices will use the same simplified menu system that is used on the TomTom EASE devices.
The XL 350 comes boasting a 4.3-inch display and comes for a price of $169.95 while the XL 550 comes with a 5-inch widescreen display, according to gpstracklog, they say the XXL 550 has a 4.3-inch display but Amazon say 5-inch
Each is available with your choice of lifetime maps and traffic options. You’ll also get 7 million POIs on each, along with advanced lane guidance, spoken street names, maps of the US, Canada and Mexico, TomTom’s EasyMenu interface and, of course, the company’s IQ Routes technology.

In association with Lucasfilm Ltd. and VoiceSkins.com TomTom brings official Star Wars voices to TomTom navigation devices for the very first time. An authentic sounding Vader voice tells you where to go and leads you down the path to the Dark Side and your final destination.
The Darth Vader voice also features original sound effects from the classic films, including lightsaber sounds and TIE fighter flybys. John Williams’ unforgettable Imperial March music is embedded into certain sections of the navigation commentary. In addition, the company unveiled an online, Webcam-based Flash game (pictured) that lets players compete to win a Yoda-themed standalone navigation device.
You will be able to choose from C-3PO in June, Yoda in July, and Han solo in August. The voices will all sell for £ 7,95 and you can get free content for start screens, car icons and more to go along with the voices.
If you’re not a Star Wars fan, you can add your own voice to Ovi Maps instead. To hear clips of the voices – and to find out more about them and the Star Wars game – visit http://www.tomtom.com/news/www.tomtom.com/starwars

Garmin-Asus announced a new Android smartphone, the A10. The Garmin-Asus A10 puts its focus on walking directions. It has custom GPS software tailored to on-foot GPS  preloaded with mapping data and – optionally – cityXplorer guides to public transit systems.. Compared to the T-Mobile Garminfone, the Garmin-Asus A10 smartphone has a smaller screen (3.2-inches) but remains as great a choice for an all-in-one navigation.

The A10 has a 3.2-inch HVGA touchscreen supporting multitouch, 5-megapixel camera, a 1,500mAh battery, the Android standard WebKit browser, and a 5 megapixel camera with auto-focus. The A10 comes with all of Android’s standard Google offerings including Maps, GMail, YouTube, calendar, the Android Market, and more, as well as full Exchange support for syncing contacts, calendar, and email.
The Garmin-Asus A10 is expected to launch in mid-2010, but its price is still unannounced.