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Ask Us: Is it worth buying GPS navigation for the iPhone?
Derek Fung weighs up the pros and cons of trying to get your iPhone to double as a GPS unit.
Ask Us: Is it worth buying GPS navigation for the iPhone?
Derek Fung weighs up the pros and cons of trying to get your iPhone to double as a GPS unit.
Reviews
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Navman MY500XT
Improved, but still deeply flawed. We'd suggest checking out the lesser fruit from the Navman tree first.
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Nokia E52
At first sight the Nokia E52 won't set your heart racing, but its excellent battery life and ease of use make it a smartphone worthy of consideration.
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Nokia X6
Nokia has announced its next Comes with Music handset, and it looks to be the goods. Gone is the resistive touchscreens of its earlier models, plus it has a whopping 32GB of storage to keep your music on.
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Pioneer AVIC-F10BT
Pioneer's top-of-the-range in-dash navigation unit, the F10BT features a 7-inch touchscreen, movie playback including DivX, Bluetooth hands-free, USB connectivity and iPod support, as well as sat nav with text-to-speech, 3D view and traffic messaging.
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Pioneer AVIC-F310BT
At just under AU$1,200, the AVIC-310BT is an on-paper bargain. It features a 4.3-inch touchscreen, Bluetooth hands-free, GPS navigation with text-to-speech and 3D view, a CD player, USB connectivity and iPod support.
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Nokia 5230
Nokia looks set to flood the market with its growing touchscreen line-up across all the major segments, with the 5230 filling the budget model gap.
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Nokia 6700
The Nokia 6700 Classic is not a fancy-pants smartphone, but its high quality, 5-megapixel camera and brilliant screen help make this phone a front-runner in the mid-range market.
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TomTom One 140
Same, same but slightly better than before. Quicker responses and lane guidance justify slight premium over fourth-gen One.
Features
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Best large-screen GPS navigators
For the last several years, GPS units have come in two sizes: 3.5-inch and 4.3-inch. Fast forward to 2009 and larger sizes are now not only common, but affordable too.
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Best budget GPS navigators
With the words crisis and meltdown being a regular feature in newspaper headlines, we investigate some of the cheaper GPS options out there.
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Best portable GPS navigators
All brand name GPS units will get you safely from A to B, but some do it better than others. We nominate a clutch of navigators we'd junk our Gregory's or Melway for.
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Best GPS-enabled mobile phones
While it could be argued they're not as robust as in-car sat-navs, these GPS-enabled mobile phones can help you find your bearings when you're on the move.
News
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Better Place's software tells you where you can go
Better Place founder Shai Agassi is ready to show off his software industry experience to improve electric vehicles. At the Frankfurt Motor Show, the electric car service company will show off in-car software designed to ensure that electric car drivers have enough charge to keep driving.
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Father's Day gift guide
Let someone else buy the ties and tool kits for dad. If you really want to win him over, get him one of these tech presents.
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Sydney movie, music pirate earns jail time
The Australian arms of the music and film industry have won a victory against piracy with the news that Sydney man Yong Hong Lin has been handed a three-month jail term for selling illegal imported discs from his Eastwood music and movie store.
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Broken record: Why labels want new album format
There's not enough margin in single downloads, so the music industry wants to find the next-gen album. Let's hope it won't force unwanted tracks on listeners.
DIYs and How-to
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GPS buyer's guide
Prices for GPS devices and apps have come down in the last year and many of us are looking at jumping on the bandwagon. We take a look at how it works, why you should (or shouldn't) buy a GPS, as well as key features to look out for.
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Advanced iTunes: Get more from the software
Here's a collection of four tips for getting more out of the software — using multiple libraries on a single machine, the best uses for Smart Playlists, getting true CD-quality rips from your CD, and tips for getting perfect album art.
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TuneUp your iTunes music library
Does your iTunes library have lots of songs with missing tags and cover art? TuneUp Companion is a plug-in for iTunes that does all the tedious tagging and cover art retrieval work for you.
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Top GPS features
So you've decided you're going to get a portable GPS device, but what features should you look out for and which brand is best at what?
Downloads
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Blubster
Share music files using a peer-to-peer protocol that works without a central server.
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GINternet Explorer
Browse the Web safely while listening to music and having fun on the net.
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SuperEZ Wave Editor
Edit, convert, and burn audio files of various formats.
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Cool Music CD Burner
Easy-to-use audio-CD-burning software.
The Explain Series
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Get (laptop) smart before you buy
Win the numbers game and get the laptop that's perfect your needs as well as your budget!
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Microsoft Windows® 7. Your PC, simplified.
Windows® 7 has been designed to be more reliable, more responsive, and to make the things you do every day easier.
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Whereis® maps
If you’d like to get to know more of Australia, and do it safely, then check out Whereis® maps.

























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