Garmin International Inc., a unit of Garmin Ltd., and AT&T announced today that AT&T will provide the radio network joining for the nuvi 1690, a portable seafaring device (PND) with a built-in radio faculty planned for liberation later this year.
The nuvi 1690 will come equipped with Garmin’s nuLink!, an manufacture leading, feature-rich service that will provide customers mobile approach to Google(TM) Local hunt and up-to-appointment local anesthetic information, including traffic, weather, fuel prices, film listings, flight condition, local anesthetic events, and white page telephone listings. The overhaul also features Ciao!(TM), Garmin’s exclusive location-based sociable networking organization that connects multiple networks into a one portal vein for Garmin users.
“The nuvi is a powerful meter-saving tool that takes the mystery out of where you ar, where you’re going, and the topper means to get there – whether it’s to an important merging, a kid’s association football biz, or across the nation on a route trip,” said Cliff Pemble, Garmin’s prexy and COO. “We’re pleased to deliver this compelling, real-time content across AT&T’s nationwide network, delivering the ultimate seafaring experience.”
“We look forward to providing the network connection that will deliver an exciting new breed of timely wireless information, helping redefine on-the-go seafaring for consumers and keeping them connected and informed,” said John Glenn Lurie, prexy, AT&T Emerging Devices and Resale.
The U.S. version of the nuvi 1690 volition be offered with 2 years of free people Garmin nuLink! service, devising it the first online PND to crack an extended point of online features included in the leverage monetary value of the device. It will come equipped with preloaded maps of North America and is expected to be available in the fourth quarter for a manufacturer’s suggested retail price of $499.99. Following the first base 2 years of overhaul, the Garmin nuLink! subscription reclamation monetary value for information services is $5.00/month.
The nuvi 1690 is Garmin’s first base mobile seafaring gimmick to transform traditional sociable networking into localization-enabled social networking. Through Ciao!, a patent-pending social net diligence that links multiple localization-centric social networks onto 1 application, customers have the option of share-out their whereabouts with friends and family unit. Ciao! users will see their friends’ localization on a map and then be able to navigate to that location.
The nuvi 1690 will also come standard with ecoRoute(TM), an innovative application that helps customers reach their dollars and preserve fuel by creating routes that are optimized for using less fuel. When a drug user selects the “less fuel” choice, the nuvi volition determine a fuel efficient route based on fuel using up rates, estimated driving speeds and fomite acceleration information. Customers tin then develop bettor driving habits by reviewing the results of ecoRoute’s Fuel Report and Mileage Report. When used in combination with nuLink!’s fuel prices, customers can not only optimize their routes but also can choose their fueling locations in order to minimize the monetary value of fomite procedure. Fuel prices in the U.S. are updated daily.
The nuvi 1690 also features Bluetooth® Wireless Technology that makes it possible to receive and place phone calls directly from the nuvi, once paired with a radio phone. It tin be paired with over 200 Bluetooth enabled phones, and a number one wood can retrieve and dial numbers exploitation a supported earphone’s contact list, the earphone’s call account log, or the nuvi’s preloaded points of interest database.
The nuvi 1690 boasts the most comprehensive set of points of pastime (POI) search capabilities offered by any online PND, delivered through nuLink’s Google Local and white page telephone listings. Google Local brings online POIs to customers’ fingertips and lets them hunt for destinations by epithet or keystone actor’s line just like they are accustomed to doing on their personal computer. In addition, Garmin has created a “quick hunt” lineament that lets users search Google Local via categories like food, lodging and fuel, rather than typing a word or musical phrase into the Google Local search loge. Customers can also manipulation the nuLink!’s white varlet phone itemization feature to search for a person’s street address by their first base name, shoemaker’s last name or earphone number.
In summation to the local hunt lineament, Garmin nuLink! offers a plethora of other online services. Local events and film listings help customers find interesting activities wherever they might locomotion. Real-meter flight condition takes the stress out of traveling to the airdrome with up-to-the minute arrival and going information for major air carriers. And the Garmin nuLink! dealings feature provides the topper-in-course selective information from NAVTEQ to aid customers navigate in and around congestion.
Customers can also opt to use the nuvi 1690’s preloaded POI database to search for a location and then receive turn-by-twist, part prompted directions to the destination. The nuvi 1690 includes lane assist with adjunction view so drivers will see a realistic presentment of route signs and junctions along the route, as wellspring as arrows that indicate the proper lane for seafaring. These features shuffle it easy to navigate unfamiliar intersections and exits because the nuvi guides drivers to the correct lane for an approaching twist or issue. Map and dealings information is provided by NAVTEQ(TM) – a worldly concern leader in bounty-quality mapping.
Garmin’s nuLink! coverage area selective information is available at www.garmin.com/nulink. Additional information is available at www.garmin.com.