Garmin unleash Mobile PC

[CES 2008] Garmin has just announced the Garmin Mobile PC navigation package that automatically endows your notebooks with powerful navigation capability. Not only does Mobile PC provide a cheap avenue to extend the capability of your existing notebook, it also boasts similar real-time features found on high-end portable GPS devices, including weather and fuel price information. You can choose from a software-only package or a bundle with software as well as Garmin's new GPS 20x sensor. The software-only bundle works with broadband modems, internal or third-party GPS receivers via serial or Bluetooth connections, while the latter package uses the GPS 20x via a USB connection. You can even mount the GPS 20x on your dashboard thanks to its non-skid pads and small size (<2" in length). The Mobile PC will be paraded at CES 2008, so head on there to check it out. You'll have to wait until April for the Garmin Mobile PC with GPS 20x bundle though, and it retails for $99.99. It costs $40 less if you want the version sans GPS 20x.

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