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Garmin nuvi 880

by Darren

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Yet another Garmin in the onslaught of product releases for early 2008. The Garmin nuvi 880 is a premium GPS system for those in need of speech recognition, an area where this unit really excels.

“Garmin’s nuvi 880 uses speech recognition to make navigation safer and easier than ever. Now it’s possible to keep both hands on the wheel, tell nuvi what to do and where to go, and you’re on your way to stress-free travel,” said Dan Bartel, Garmin’s worldwide vice president of sales. “And with enhanced MSN Direct services, the nuvi 880 provides cutting-edge content like traffic, fuel prices, news and business headlines, and a wireless ’send to GPS’ capability.”

In keeping with Garmin’s heritage of elegant user interface design, the nuvi 880’s speech recognition technology sets the new industry standard for simple and intuitive use. Users mount a push-to-talk wireless remote to their steering wheel, which is used to activate voice commands — no additional setup or “training” is required. Once activated, the user can effortlessly manipulate controls by speaking the words that correspond to buttons that are on the touchscreen display, so that almost any common task can be performed without ever touching the unit.

The nuvi 800 series will be available in the second quarter of 2008.

For more information: Garmin

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