Archive for October, 2009

Jake’s Journal: Live from New York, it’s marathon week!

Yazan: Garmin | 30 October 2009 | No Comments
Categories: Garmin, GPS News & Reviews

Any time a work trip begins with the best in the business telling you how much they love your products, you know it’s going to be a great week. That’s exactly what happened when, an hour after I’d landed in…

Making the most of your zumo

Yazan: Garmin | 30 October 2009 | No Comments
Categories: Garmin, GPS News & Reviews

If you’ve ever spent any amount of time on a long stretch of highway, you know that the ride can get a bit monotonous. Miles give way to more miles and while the sound of the open road can be…

Garmin Celebrates FLIBS Golden Anniversary In Style

Yazan: Garmin | 29 October 2009 | No Comments
Categories: Garmin, GPS News & Reviews

It’s record high heat at the 50th annual Fort Lauderdale International Boat Show, and the Garmin booth is the place to be to escape the heat. We’ve got our newxHD radars, VHF radios, and huge 15 inch touchscreen displays in…

Victor’s Vectors: Big savings on avionics

Yazan: Garmin | 28 October 2009 | No Comments
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Listen up if you’re a bargain hunter! We’ve just launched a ” Soar into Savings” program where customers can earn up to $7,000 in rebates on a variety of panel mount avionics. The rebates apply to customers selecting a combination…

Versatile Oregon 550t finds its way to new mountains and magazines

Yazan: Garmin | 27 October 2009 | No Comments
Categories: Garmin, GPS News & Reviews

The day we announced the Oregon 550t, Garmin’s waterproof touchscreen handheld with a built-in 3.2 megapixel camera, we knew it would get a lot of people’s attention. The hikers and hunters appreciate its preloaded U.S. topo maps, meaning they no…

nüvifone G60 available for $99

Yazan: Garmin | 27 October 2009 | No Comments
Categories: Garmin, GPS News & Reviews

Are you thinking about getting a nüvifone G60? Don’t forget to check out Amazon. They now have it for $99 when purchased with a new service plan. If you’re still on the fence about the purchase, you should check out…

HomePort PC Planning Solution now available!

Yazan: Garmin | 26 October 2009 | No Comments
Categories: Garmin, GPS News & Reviews

If you own a Garmin chartplotter, your trip planning days just got a whole lot easier. HomePort, our new marine planning software that lets mariners plan and manage trips, routes, tracks and waypoints and transfer them between a PC computer…

Garmin teams with actor/conservationist Edward Norton to sponsor the Maasai Marathon benefitting African conservation

Yazan: Garmin | 26 October 2009 | No Comments
Categories: Garmin, GPS News & Reviews

You’re hearing it here first. We have more exciting news leading up to Sunday’s ING New York City Marathon, where we’ve already announced that we’ll be showing off brand-new colors of the FR60 as we support elite American distance runner…

Peg’s Posts: KC Marathon — survived and qualified!

Yazan: Garmin | 23 October 2009 | No Comments
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I’m not much for bragging, but this post may be an exception, because … I’m going to Boston! Last Saturday, I ran my second marathon in 3:38:33, beating my time goal of 3:40 and comfortably meeting my qualifying time for…

Caddy Confidential: Garmin Teamwork and Tournament Time

Yazan: Garmin | 23 October 2009 | No Comments
Categories: Garmin, GPS News & Reviews

You’ve achieved success in your field when you don’t know whether what you’re doing is work or play. ~Warren Beatty Well, that certainly could be said for the team of humble scribes here at the Garmin Blog. We all have…

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