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PORTABLE INTERNET INTRODUCES GPS PORT@BLE NAVIGATOR.
Park Ridge, October 17,2001: Just in time for fall and winter travel,
Portable Internet announced that it's award-winning destination
guide/navigator for Palm O/S, Pocket PC, and Windows CE palmtop computers
and palm-based smart phones is now enhanced with GPS position location,
proximity searches, and navigation, including voice navigation for Pocket
PC.
The palm top navigators include features designed specifically for travelers
not available on any other product, including GPS navigation with current
street, direction, and distance to destination, next turn indication
(audible on Pocket PC's); interactive split screen, fully labeled color
moving maps that cover every street; partial and exact address searches;
thousands of landmarks; thousands of searchable, "mouth watering reviews" of
restaurant, attraction, shopping, entertainment venue and hotels from
Frommers Travel Guides; full U.S. coverage - not just small sections or city
centers, and real-time driving directions for the ultimate in on the spot
planning.
The guides are the only interactive PDA product to use trusted Frommers
reviews. Free updates, new standard features, and new Frommers cities for
Travelers Edition customers are supplied via the web for all PI-branded
editions.
Coverage has been expanded to the entire United States, including Alaska and
Hawaii, with current map data. Maps can be loaded and directly accessed from
storage cards on Palm OS 4.0 devices like the M105, M500, and M505 without
copying map data to main memory. Multiple concurrent maps are now supported
on Pocket PC, allowing seamless door-to-door routing limited only by memory
size. Pocket PC and Windows CE editions have also been updated for even
higher speed and greater ease of use. Maps are now 25-50% smaller to allow
more maps with the same storage capacity. An advanced PC-based installer
makes installing the product, finding and loading maps fast and easy.
"Road warriors and leisure travelers write in and say they'd be lost without
us" said Mike Flom, CEO, Portable Internet, Inc., "Our new GPS-enabled
products now tell you where next to turn -like a $3,000 car navigation
system."
Using the new multi-media memory cards on Palm M500 and M505 color palmtops,
Handspring Springboard memory modules, or CompactFlash storage cards, PDA's
can now hold the equivalent of dozens of detailed street maps, and Frommers
books on a single card postage stamp or matchbook size card.
Products are available at introductory price of $49.95 Travelers Editions
and $19.95 Single City Edition annual subscriptions at
www.PortableInternet.com. The latest Palm OS devices are supported including
the M105, M500, M505 Color, Kyocera QCP-6035 palmphone, Samsung I-300 color
palmphone, Handspring conventional and color devices. Pocket PC 2002 devices
are being certified now. GPS is optional; any NEMA-0182 V.2 GPS device
including Pharos, Pretec, Magellan, Garmin GPS or handheld receivers are
supported. Versions of the GPS Port@ble Navigator are also available from
major retailers bundled with GPS receivers from leading manufacturers.
About Portable Internet:
Portable Internet, based in Park Ridge, New Jersey, is a private label
supplier of distributed, location-enhanced software and services. The
company provides and operates configurable, location-sensitive web
applications and distributed application servers running on combinations of
wireless Internet phones, graphic smart phones and communicators, palmtops,
wireless palmtops and the PC-based web for wireless carriers, mobile device
manufacturers, national brands, and mobile work force employers. Portable
Internet customizes the applications with the brands, locations, marketing
messages, offers and transactions of enterprises, often in 30 days or less.
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