Magellan Premium Car Kit Is Forward Compatible With IPHONE 4
Adjustable Cradle Provides 3-in-1 Hands-Free Navigation Solution for the iPhone and iPod Touch

The Premium Car Kit GPS car mount by Magellan, a leader in GPS navigation, is adjustable to fit the new iPhone 4.  The innovative 3-in-1 cradle works with any GPS navigation application and provides a built-in GPS receiver for improved navigation accuracy.  This Premium Car Kit also powers your device and features an amplified speaker for crystal clear turn by turn directions and enhanced Bluetooth hands-free calling.

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Apple enthusiasts can now take their new iPhone 4 from the retail box to an OtterBox™ as the Colorado case manufacturing company unveils its Defender Series case. Impact Series and Commuter Series cases are coming soon.

“We set the bar high for quality and durability,” OtterBox founder and CEO Curt Richardson said. “Extensive research and testing is done to ensure our cases are precision-fit and proven to withstand abuse. Great design takes time and we are confident to now deliver our signature Defender Series protection for the iPhone 4.”

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Griffin Technology Inc., maker of ingenious ways to power, play, protect, and connect, and Frontier Design Group, maker of musically inspiring apps, today announced availability of Griffin’s GuitarConnect cable and Frontier’s iShred LIVE. With this combination of cable and app, your iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad becomes a mobile guitar workstation that is both fun and useful to musicians of all skill levels.

“Getting hardware and software to work together is a unique challenge,” said Mark Rowan, President of Griffin Technology. “This type of application requires more than a basic instrument cable, and we were excited to develop a cable to integrate with iShred LIVE.”

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With the iPhone craze not going anywhere anytime soon, consumers are always looking for ways to customize and enhance the sound of their iPhone to the fullest.

For an upcoming round up or piece on iPhone docks, I’d like to introduce you to the latest iPhone dock. With Pioneer’s 70-year ‘audio specialist’ experience, these docks were crafted to get consumers closer to the artist’s original intent and offer the best listening experience in the home and while on-the-go.

The Audition ($449) dock offers 2.1 channel audio with an integrated subwoofer, is available in black or white.

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Yamaha fits this device in their “Audio4iPod and DTA (Desktop Audio)” product line. Yamaha’s website invites us to “enjoy the music from all your favorite sources for this attractive “all in one audio system”, in any room in the house.”

Let’s check whether it’s worthwhile to accept this invitation…

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Brussels, Robin Bollen // Dec 25, 2009

Santa brought me some really cool stuff this year, an aftershave from Polo and the NAVIGON Car Kit. I must have been a nice boy this year, ahum… Especially the latter I was looking forward to since quite some time. Before, I always placed the iPhone in the Radio display console of my car, when I was navigating with the iPhone. Although this worked quite cool and I had some fair GPS satellite reception, it was about time for some improvement.

I requested the Car Kit from Navigon but they had better things to do then to reply to our email apparently. TomTom Iberia was so nice to send us a Car Kit for testing purposes like you have read in Dani’s review before for sure. That’s why I asked Santa to bring me the NAVIGON Design Car Kit this year.

[Update: NAVIGON Iberia has contacted us, with the promise to supply us with future review models.]

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Brussels, Robin Bollen // Dec 22, 2009

GPS Manufacturer Magellan has emailed its newsletter subscribers that from today on you can re-order their iPhone Car Kit. Something noteworthy is the compatibility with the iPod Touch 2nd generation because the “iTouch” doesn’t have a GPS receiver chip.

The Kit supports the Magellan Road Mate 2010 GPS application and also the other GPS apps. We reviewed the first edition of Road Mate 2010 here, but note that in the mean time version 1.1 is available since yesterday, with a lot of improvements and some new features.

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A few days ago, we have published the un-boxing and presentation of the TomTom car kit. We also tested the compatibility of the car kit with the first generation iPhone models; iPhone (1G/2G/EDGE) and the GPS navigation application TomTom Western Europe 1.1. Now, it’s time to publish the road test results with a combination of 2G, 3G and 3GS iPhones.

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The awakening… for many people this is one of the cruelest moments of the day. You are sleeping tight and suddenly, an awful sound startles you and you awake. Fortunately, for the past few years, apart from the typical alarm clock, we can enjoy real smart devices. 

Sony Corporation has a wide range of radio alarm clocks and, within that range, a few models with docking and charging systems for the iPhone. Today, we are looking at one of the simplest models, the Sony ICF-C7IP. 

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With the shopping season being in full bloom, maybe you can use some help with buying advise for an original iPhone gift. I handpicked some of the best iPhone gifts, from very affordable and original to expensive.

We have published a lot of iPhone accessories over time, but by writing this article I found a few new ones myself. The first one I bought recently and it’s of very nice quality, well packed and quickly shipped.

Enjoy the shopping! If I missed another great iPhone gift, just leave me a comment.

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