Email from Garmin (Reimagined. Redesigned.)

Depending on what tomorrow brings - we'll see... but as of today, in my opinion - Navigon's iOS app is the best I've used... I have the Garmin StreetPilot app, I've tried the TomTom app, as well as Telenav - Navigon is the best today.

http://www.gpscity.com/?cr=082311GU

I guess we find out tomorrow!!!!

I wonder what time tomorrow? Maybe the webpage is configured to allow access to something just after midnight tonight! (Just kidding.) I guess we all will know soon enough. If it is an Android application, will you/do you:

A) Intend To Get It At All Costs

B) Will Avoid It Like The Plague No Matter What

C) Take The Wait And See Approach

D) Who Cares

I don't need a Garmin phone.
If this is it, I will get a 3790 from Costco. I wish the rumor was about a GPS. Still hoping...

I am not sure about the voice command stuff though. Not very useful to me. Is it really useful while you are driving???

Once Google Navigator starts to store maps it all moot anyway!Why navigate away from a app native to the OS?

Moto Droid 2 Android 2.3.3 Gingerbread OS Root

Maybe Garmin will forget to post the big secret news?

Qoute from the Garmin Blog site

Ready to Move You. Introducing the 2012 nüvi line.
August 24, 2011 - posted in Garmin News, On the Road,

Today, you have many options to help you get from point A to point B. But if you're looking to make your way with ease, there's only one choice: the all-new nüvi line from Garmin. Our 2012 nüvi line-up is redesigned and loaded with great features. Powerful and even more affordable than ever before, each new nüvi is made to move you. Visit garmin.com/move to check them out today!

Lamest. Tease. Ever.

It's all about the 2012 Nuvi line.

http://garmin.blogs.com/my_weblog/2011/08/ready-to-move-you-introducing-the-2012-nüvi-line.html

If you want a good smartphone app - Go with Navigon. Available for iOS devices, as well as versions for Droid, and WindowsMobile.

Here is the Garmin News Release for the new models. It's the release for Europe as it doesn't appear on the Garmin US website currently:

Garmin® announces new 2012 range of nüvi® sat navs

Garmin, the global leader in satellite navigation, today announced the new 2012 range of nüvi sat navs featuring a new tiered series with ‘Essential, Advanced and Premium’ to meet the lifestyles and budgets of customers.

Also new to the 2012 line-up is advanced Guidance 2 and 3 navigation engines for faster and more intuitive user experience including enhanced features that result in Garmin’s most capable navigators yet.

“Whether you’re a student, a busy parent running the kids around town, or a road-warrior spending significant time in your car, the tiered structure of the new 2012 nüvi line makes it easy to pick the features and price point right for you” said Clive Taylor, Garmin’s EMEA Product Director, Automotive. “The ESSENTIAL, ADVANCED, and PREMIUM lines bring features and capabilities that do far more than just get you from A to B. They make everyday driving easier and provide time and fuel-saving benefits that only a dedicated navigation device can offer.”

Full breakdown of the new 2012 range:

ESSENTIAL: The nüvi 30/40/50 series is the perfect starting point, providing GPS navigation at its simplest with accurate turn-by-turn directions and spoken street names. These entry-level sat navs are budget-friendly and easy to use, making them a great solution for first-time drivers, students away at University, or as an extra navigator for the other family car.

ADVANCED: The nüvi 2405 and 2505 series offer sophisticated features at an affordable price, an ideal choice for the multi-tasking parent or the professional with a longer commute. The Advanced line comes with Guidance 2, a new navigation engine with a faster, more intuitive user experience that enhances the speed and accuracy of searches and routing up to 10x faster POI search and up to 2X faster routing.

Selected models even offer ‘call me angel’ a feature which allows you to give your nüvi a name, that when spoken provokes your nüvi to awaken ready for hands-free voice commands that really work.

With Guidance 2, complex junctions and exits are simplified using photoReal™ junction view. Road signs and junctions along the route are realistically displayed with photographic detail to clearly mark the correct lanes to be in for junctions and exits. Garmin’s exclusive junction view database now includes 34,000 junction views in Europe,

Also part of Guidance 2 is 3D Traffic. A Garmin sat nav with 3D Traffic technology, compiles historical traffic information (where traffic tends to be at certain times of the day), computes it with 80 million current traffic sources (from real-time data) to confidently predict future traffic.

The world’s most geographically extensive traffic information technology obtains 2 billion feeds per month from GPS probes on the road and also 80 million real time sources around the world so ensuring Garmin sat nav owners know where the traffic is and more importantly where to turn to avoid it.

PREMIUM: The nüvi 3400 series, Garmin’s premium line of PNDs, features Guidance 3 and the award-winning design of the popular nüvi 3700 series - the benchmark for the future design of premium sat navs. At less than 9mm it’s the thinnest navigator in the world. The design features pinch-to-zoom touchscreen interaction and automatic dual-screen orientation. With the most robust features available on any device, this product series is perfect for people who want the best Garmin has to offer.

Guidance 3 is Garmin’s most innovative navigation engine and includes all of the features of Guidance 2 plus more. Guidance 3 includes photoReal junction view technology enhanced with Bird’s Eye junction view. This stress relieving technology highlights from an overhead perspective the correct lanes to be in when approaching complex junctions which require multiple maneuvers.

Also on selected models is Safe Texting*; a text reader feature that allows the driver to hear and reply to texts without taking their eyes off the road, myTrends™; a predictive feature which automatically remembers favorite route destinations and predicts the destination and estimated time of arrival (ETA) without the user needing to activate a route, and 3D terrain & buildings for a real view of the road ahead.

The new 2012 nüvi product line is expected to be available in the UK in Q1 2012. For more information about individual models, features and pricing, visit www.garmin.com/move.

Since its inception in 1989, Garmin has delivered 88 million GPS enabled devices – far more than any other navigation provider. Garmin’s market breadth in the GPS industry is second to none, having developed innovative products and established a leadership position in each of the markets it serves, including automotive, aviation, marine, fitness, outdoor recreation, tracking, and wireless applications. Learn more about Garmin’s products at Garmin.blogs.com or at http://twitter.com/garmin.

* relies on new and developing BT format (.map)

Another Garmin disappointment.

Mrs. Krull and I both use voice command. We think that anything that helps keeps our eyes on the road as opposed to looking at the GPS display is useful.

It is the new nevi 2012 lineup

And to boot, the website is now down.

What happened to the real time GSM enabled traffic navigator .. I was hoping for GSM enabled traffic with the form factor of 3790. Disappointed!

LOL. I guess all of the hype was for nothing.

The only thing Garmin is good for at this point is taking existing products/features and renaming them with a higher markup!!

Just like cell phone makers.

Yeah, but Garmin is losing the race to cell phone makers!

Not to mention that Garmin still thinks its 2007. The days of the mass market paying over $200 for a gps device are over. Someone really should send a memo to Garmin.

Looks like just another upgrade to their lineup. At least all the new models have lifetime maps.

Lists the new models. Just compared the3490 to the 3790 and they're almost identical. New model?????? Looks like a reworked version of the present model.

https://buy.garmin.com/shop/shop.do?cID=134&fKeys=FILTER_SER...

interested in the new product line but will be enjoying mine while waiting.

Reimagined and Redesigned.. wow.. i have never seen a garmin with that design and features before.. guidance 2.0 and 3.0... GARMIN; seriously??

such a lame campaign... so 3400 series would be 599 dollars bcoz it has 3.0 guidance (not 1.0)??

What is "bird's eye junction view" and how is it different from the normal photoreal junction views?

The new 3490 replaces the 3790 and it adds some 3d stuff but also takes away EcoRoute which you can buy from Garmin for $100.

Garmin makes you think they are giving you something new to put in your front pocket while they take something from your back pocket.

At least the MSRP is the same for the 3490 as it was for the 3790.

Not enough of a change to make this a radical announcement.

But the price of the 3790 should go down.

I removed several posts from this discussion thread. Let's avoid bickering or arguing for sport.

JM

Check out Garmin's website. They will be releasing new products soon. 3 new lines for 2012. New features that have never been on PND's before, like 3-d traffic.

I think that's pretty much what this thread is about.

I was looking over the specs for the 3490LMT, and it says that the Garmin Lock is not included. Has anyone else noticed this and I've over looked something? Why would they not include the 4 digit PIN number security feature?

Nothing new, just the same old product with new name and package.

I think Garmin should focus on making navigation apps for smart phone, ios, android, windows, webos, blackberry.

This has been discussed in a couple of other forums. Some speculate that Garmin finally realized that the Garmin Lock feature was not effective as a theft deterrent and created support problems and angry customers when users forgot the code and/or purchased a used nuvi. So, time to get rid of the feature.

It is also interesting to note that Garmin included the audiobook player, but not a MP3 player or line out/headphone jack. My guess is that they get some kind of kickback from Audible for including this feature. But without MP3 capability or line-out jack, I think the media player is pretty useless.

I never used Garmin Lock on any of the units in my house. More trouble than its worth.

It's also probably easier to hear a book being read to you than to listen to music through the Nuvi speaker or the mount speaker.

Good point. The 3790 is already down to $357 on Amazon.

I knew the 3790 was on the way out when it showed up at Costco.

It usually means the unit is being discontinued.

It's on sale right now at Costco for $300. Plus it's the 3790LMT model.