omnitech gps review

Are you tempted to buy the irresistable deal for omnitech gps from staples? read on..

After checking the "Omnitech GPS" deal at staples, i was immediately tempted to buy looking its features like 4.3" screen, Text-To-Speech functionality, google-maps like UI and 170$ price tag when compared to hefty 350$ of garmin nuvi.

I almost decided to buy but staples has only one review. so, i googled to find more information/images in the web but of no use. After seraching it with the keyword "Destinator", i could finally crack down its details and the website of the product.

This is the website for the omnitech GPS, But in the website the word "omnitech" is mentioned nowhere ( Its there only in front page image, hidden from search engines.. )
http://www.navsupport.net/gps/15223/

Here is the link for the review of this GPS
http://www.redflagdeals.com/forums/showthread.php?s=bb3f4b04227a16cdaaae9872751ab182&t=521001&page=2

It took more than one hour to find out the information even with google, so i decided to share this at one place, which might be useful..

Here is the User manual, checkout the screenshots, you will immediately notice the poor UI compared to garmin and tom tom.
http://www.navsupport.net/gps/15223/download/OmnitechGPS_UM_S19510V2_English.pdf
The mapping data is from navteq, so if you dont mind the user interface much, this is worth the money for the features it provides.

Anyway i am very much impressed with garmin UI, i would better wait till garmin nuvi 200W price drop below $200

Lately i noticed even the pharos GPS sold by Dell also looks some thing like this, seems to be pharos also uses the same UI ( presumably from destinator technologies http://www.destinatortechnologies.com/)


Tags: Omnitech GPS review staples deal destinator Garmin nuvi Tom Tom

Wi-fi SD card Vs wireless digital camera

Just read the revolutionary SD card which has built-in wi-fi. I am really shocked to digest the new innovation of embedding the wi-fi into a already tiny SD card. Its amazing.





So, whats gonna change with our dialy life ? Once you have shot the photos, there is no need to upload the photos in to the computer/photo websites. The SD card can directly contact your online photo sharing account(provided your user name and pass word) and will transfer the photos. You just have to do one time configuration of your SD card for the available wireless networks.





This is so convinient for the elderly people otherwise a burden of uploading the photos. Even we also tend to forget uploading the photos, after friends marriage or some casual get together. With this SD card life is going to change just take the photos and leave the camera, it will silently do its job and with in less than a hour, photos will be published and shared with every one.

The starting price is around 99$, i feel this price is decent. With in a year this will be a commodity. So no more photos in the computer waiting to get uploaded to internet.



What we can expect to follow this revolution, eventually every gadget with SD slot can become wireless, so is this another revolution in the home networking ? Lets watch and see what are all new gadgets will follow..



checkout more at http://www.eye.fi/

But for the people who want to transfer the photos wirelessly, there is a another option of buying a digital camera which has built in wi-fi. Nikon has already these kind of cameras. If wi-fi chip can be integrated into the SD card, why can not these digital cameras can embed this by default. This is going to be a default option for most of the cameras with in a year.

So if you are holding the old camera and want wireless you can buy eye-fi, otherwise wait for the new digital camera models from canon, sony or nikon.

Tags: eye-fi, wireless SD card, wirelss USB, wireless digital camera