GPS News from a South African Perspective
The GPS Times ranks 2987 in Africa and 1850 in South Africa. According to site visitors it ranks 6157, and 6157 according to page views:
According to blogroll links it ranks 2093 and 1765 according to the amount of links within Afrigator blog posts
The new Tracks 4 Africa mapset (v9.05) has been launched and is now available from most dealers. A special limited edition, with both a CD and a “Plug-&-Play” SD/MicroSD memory card, is also being sold by select dealers. Simply pop the memory card into your compatible Garmin GPS unit
Just a quick post to say that I have finally received stock of the new Garmap Africa Series 2009 DVD’s. They came in this afternoon but so far I have not had a chance to even load them onto my PC yet (I have been far too busy getting
Congratulations, you’ve just bought your first Garmin GPS. But what now? Well here are the first 5 things that we recommend you do as soon as you take your new Garmin GPS out of the box, to ensure that your unit runs smoothly and without hassles. 1. Charge the
Apart from the Nuvi 710 and the Nuvi 200W swapping 2nd and 3rd places, there is no change from last months top 5 ranking. The Nuvi 200 and 200W are still selling well, mostly due to heavily discounted prices as stores desperately try and get rid of their old
A few changes on this months Top 10 list as TomTom finally make their appearance at number 9 and some of the older Garmin units are discontinued to make way for newer technology. 1 - Garmin Nuvi 200 2 - Garmin Nuvi 200W 3 - Garmin Nuvi 710 4
This is the first post in this series of “Top 10 GPS units sold in South Africa” posts so please read of the note at the bottom of this post. These lists are simply intended to give you, the reader, a better idea of the GPS market trends in
This question has come up quite a few times in conversation recently and I suppose the obvious answer would be that it depends on the price. But, one should also try and find out why the GPS model was discontinued and who discontinued it. In other words, did the
Yes, the Garmin Nuvi 860 with Speech Recognition has finally hit South African shores! This really is a very nice looking unit but I don’t want to delve too much into the aesthetics or even the standard functionality of this unit in this post. The Nuvi 860 is obviously
It always amuses me when people get all excited by the Text-to-Speech functionality on some of our GPS units. Being a South African I am quite used to the sometimes odd (mis)pronounciation of some of our road names (especially some of the newer names) by many of our own
I have been chatting to quite a few people lately about the eagerly awaited 3G iPhone which is soon to be released in South Africa (if you haven’t heard about it yet, you must be hiding under a seriously large rock my friend). One of the topics being hotly
Not following anyone at the moment.
