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Nokia and Lonely Planet mobile city guides

Tuesday, August 19th, 2008 by Sam

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Not content with simple maps, Nokia have teamed up with Lonely Planet to create a mobile tourist map extravaganza.  Adventurers can download city guides to their mobiles for over 100 hot tourist destinations so that the “where shall we eat” question need never be uttered again. Among the restaurant recommendations, you can also find where to sleep, shop, visit and boogie. No more heavy books and highlighters to pack in with your toothbrush and sleeping bags.

There was mutual love-giving from Nokia and Lonely Planet with Maximilian Schierstadt, head of media partnerships, at Nokia context-based services, saying: "Lonely Planet is a well-known brand amongst travellers and stands for adventure and editorial independence.

"We are very excited to offer their expert local recommendations and itineraries to our Nokia Maps consumers, which will allow Nokia to continue to innovate and enable compelling location-aware experiences."

Stephen Palmer, CEO of Lonely Planet Publications, added: "This is a genuinely transformational deal, which makes Lonely Planet content available regardless of time or place… Together with Nokia we will help more travellers connect profoundly with their world, everyday."

You can get your hands on the city guides from today. They’re £5.99 / USD 13.99 / EUR 7.99, and can be found in the Guides section in the Extras menu. For more info, head to Nokia.




Gadget watch - another gadget watch but this one gives you a weather forecast

Wednesday, August 6th, 2008 by Sam

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Here’s a handy gadget for your holidays, or anytime really. It’s a watch that can also give you mini weather forecasts for the next 12 to 24 hours – you need never be caught out when deciding what to wear again.

The Meteo Weather Forecast Watch works by measuring barometric pressure trends and then converts all the complicated stuff into four easy-to-read icons – sunny, partly cloudy, cloudy and rainy.

There’s also a stopwatch, calendar and alarm functions. And if you get caught in the rain? No worries! It’s water resistant up to 30 meters – I think it would just about get you through even the most tropical storms.

You can pick one up for £39.99 at Oregon Scientific.




What to buy - Top five sat navs

Friday, August 1st, 2008 by Sam
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If you’re one of the thousands shunning holidaying abroad this summer, chances are you’ll be swanning around the UK instead. This being the case, we can all imagine how much fun the roads will be. And no road trip is complete without the “why can’t you read a map properly argument”. To ease the pain a little, we’ve gone through all the sat nav reviews on Reevoo to see if we can’t save you a few hours of sitting in traffic and some disagreements with your fellow travellers.

It was pretty clear that shoppers love TomToms. They nabbed four places out of the top five highest rated devices.

Here are the results:
1.    TomTom One GB V3 - £95
2.    TomTom ONE XL – £169
3.    Garmin Nuvi 760T - £210
4.    TomTom One Explore - £110
5.    TomTom ONE WE - £116

Reevoo sends review questionnaire emails to shoppers who have bought products from one of its retail partners. In the sat nav questionnaire, owners are asked to rate design, size, accuracy, value for money, ease of use and then give the product an overall rating. You can see all of the category results below.

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For value for money, the TomTom One GB V3 is a pretty good all-rounder but shoppers rated the Garmin Nuvi as the most accurate sat nav of the bunch. It depends on your priorities but they all got very good reviews.

If you can’t see one you’re impressed with, you can see all of the other sat nav reviews here.

We hope you all have lovely holidays!