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Getting the best out of your fitness training depends on planning and feedback. Training can be planned to improve fitness, lose weight or build stamina.

Feedback provides knowledge with which to refine training to the individual.
The GPS enabled Timex Ironman Bodylink Trail Runner can help with training planning and feedback. It’s a 3 piece unit which combines a sports watch, heart monitor and GPS technology. The watch is small in size compared to others on the market.
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Both the Magellan Triton 200 and 300 are outdoor handheld GPS units designed to meet the needs of outdoor enthusiasts including backpackers, hunters and fishermen. They are lightweight and a convenient pocket size. The Triton range is built to withstand accidental impacts and is IPX-7 rated for immersion at 1m depth for up to 30 minutes.

For ease of use in the field, both the Magellan Triton 200 and 300 have 2.2 inch (5.9 cm) QVGA color touch screens. Other features include an electronic compass and an SD card slot for loading map updates and memory expansion. Both Tritons are compatible with downloadable National Geographic maps.

A SiRF Star III GPS receiver powers the GPS navigation capabilities of the Triton 300 and 200 units, as with the rest of the range. The SiRF chipset is renowned for its high sensitivity which is important for gaining your location in low GPS signal strength areas such as in canyons, ravines or heavily wooded areas. Position accuracy is (10 - 16 feet) (3 to 5 meters) for WAAS/EGNOS and < 7 meters (15 feet) for GPS only
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TomTom ONE 3rd Edition is TomTom’s entry level auto navigation device. It has a 3.5 inch (320 x 240 pixel resolution) color TFT screen, 2D / 3D navigation map display and turn-by-turn navigation instructions, 1 Gb internal memory and a sensitive and accurate GPS receiver chipset. The unit does not have Bluetooth or text-to-speech.

The third edition is similar to the first with notable additions being:

• TomTom’s Map Share Technology brings the power of community input to correct and improve available maps. Using Map Share users can; 1) modify street names and direction 2) add, remove or rename POIs and 3) (un)block streets on their own device. Users can share their map improvements and benefit from all other users improvements easily via TomTom’s free desktop application, HOME. TomTom has a user community some 10 million in size to provide plenty of leverage;
• TMC traffic is available as an option;
• The Help Me! menu allows direct access to emergency numbers and directions to nearest assistance (road assistance / police station / hospital);
• The Safety menu is fully customizable allowing users to set warnings for speed, traffic, restricted zones, schools, and more;
• The navigation software is NavCore 7 Lite missing some some items from NavCore 7.

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It’s been a long wait but, Go!Explore PSP GPS software will be available shortly. The software is by Hungary’s Nav N Go’s which in a collaborative project ported the navigation engine over to the SONY OS. The software offers both auto and pedestrian mode GPS navigation in 11 languages and is available with maps by TeleAtlas for 7 different geographic locations including; UK/Ireland; Iberia; France; Germany/Austria/Switzerland; Italy; Benelux and Scandinavia.

Possibly what attracted Sony to Nav N Go was the impressive 3D graphics and navigation in a real 3D space - it will appeal to gamers used to slick graphics. The Go!Explore navigation experience combines accurate maps with spectacular pictorial representation such as; renderings of surrounding sights and structures as well as roads with realistic gradients.
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The Garmin Nuvi 700 series has 4 models with mostly identical features.
Some of the notable common features of the Nuvi 700 models include:

• in-built GPS antenna rather than patch antenna,
• a large 4.8 inch TFT widescreen,
• text to speech (except 710),
• Bluetooth hands free calling (except 750),
• mp3 player,
• audio book player,
• picture viewer,
• world travel clock, currency & measurement converter, calculator,
• Garmin Lock (anti-theft),
• preloaded maps for immediate use, solid state internal memory and
• SD card adapter for storing and loading new maps, music and image files.

Garmin Nuvi 700s WQVGA TFT Touchscreen

The Consumer Electronics Association’s recent report, GPS- Exploring Ownership and Interest, revealed that ease of use and display quality strongly influenced owner satisfaction with a GPS device. The Garmin Nuvi 700 models all share a quality 4.8 inch, 64K, color, TFT touchscreen display with WQVGA resolution (480 x 272 pixels). Visual navigation instructions and menus are much easier to see while driving.

Maps can be viewed in both 2D and 3D. All navigational controls are accessed through the touchscreen - apart from the on/off switch and rotary volume control knob. The success of iPhones finger touch operated touchscreen demonstrates how much users like this type of interface.
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