Add navigation to your Bluetooth enabled Palm OS device. Garmin now adds support for Palm OS devices (formerly only for PCs and Pocket PCs) on its $250 Bluetooth GPS.

Press Release :

Garmin’s® Bluetooth® GPS Sensor Takes Palm OS™ Users Door-to-Door

LAS Vegas, Nev./January 3, 2006 /PR Newswire — Garmin International Inc., a unit of Garmin Ltd. (Nasdaq: GRMN), today announced a premium GPS navigation system for customers using Palm OS-based personal digital assistants (PDA) or smart phones with Bluetooth. This GPS package includes proven navigation software with feature-rich points of interest and Garmin’s GPS 10™ , a sensor that receives location data from the Global Positioning System (GPS) and transmits that information to mobile devices enabled with Bluetooth wireless technology. Garmin announced this Palm OS-based product at the 2006 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas (booth #35920).

“Palm OS-based products, such as the Treo 650, are renowned for their robust and feature-rich applications, and adding Garmin’s GPS navigation expands this portfolio of applications” said Gary Kelley, Garmin’s vice president of marketing. “The GPS 10 gives Palm customers with Bluetooth enabled devices a cost-effective way to integrate turn-by-turn GPS navigation with electronic devices they already own and are familiar with.”

Thanks to Garmin’s Que™ navigation software, Palm OS users may easily look up addresses, restaurants, hotels, and other services. In addition, users who have a Treo 650 phone may call ahead to their destination with the push of a button using the phone number listed in the point of interest database. After selecting a destination, users will travel from door-to-door with voice-prompted turn-by-turn directions. If a driver misses a turn, an alternate route will automatically be calculated so the user can quickly get back on course.

The GPS 10 software makes it possible for a Palm OS-based personal digital assistant (PDA) or smart phone to become a portable GPS navigation device. With a fully-integrated, wireless, WAAS-enabled GPS receiver and transceiver with Bluetooth technology, the GPS 10 provides strong reception and data transmission up to 30-feet. The compact and waterproof device may be discreetly mounted inside or outside a vehicle. The GPS 10 has a rechargeable lithium ion battery for up to 12-hours of use, and a 12-volt adapter for added flexibility.

The GPS 10 Deluxe package includes MapSource City Navigator North America mapping software, which offers nearly six million points of interest and detailed street-level mapping of the entire U.S., Canada, and Puerto Rico. Map data is provided by NAVTEQ™ – a world leader in premium-quality mapping. The GPS 10 Deluxe has an estimated retail price of $249.99.

The GPS 10 is one of the many products that Garmin announced at the 2006 CES in Las Vegas, January 5-8, 2006. Additional information about Garmin’s other CES announcements may be found at www.garmin.com .

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