Taiwanese GPS maker Mio will officially unveil next week at the German Sport trade fair ISPO in Munich a new device range dedicated to cycles. The Mio Cyclo devices feature a 3-inch color touchscreen in a waterproof IPX7 casing. The menu...

Finnish sport instruments maker Suunto has just announced Ambit, a new watch that combines a GPS, barometric sensor (altimeter), 3D compass and heart monitoring (in combination with a chest strap). With the built-in SiRF IV low power GPS...

Austria-based mobile fitness application developer Runtastic was born in 2009 and the company has experienced a strong growth since its inception with more than 4.5 million downloads, 20 full time employees and a cash positive business. At...

Among many companies exhibiting sport and fitness consumer electronics products at the CES trade show was Gobandit, an almost three years old start-up that designs and sell GPS-enabled action cameras for extreme sport enthusiasts. Their...

Yesterday at CES Magellan announced the eXplorist 110 GPS receiver, a waterproof and rugged handheld GPS with core outdoor navigation features and a moderate price tag of $130. Weighting 5.2-ounce and running on two AA batteries (18 hours of...

Magellan, one of the GPS brands of Taiwaness Mitac has announced for CES the launch of its first fitness products, Switch and Switch Up, two GPS-enabled fitness training watches priced between $250 and $350. The Switch includes nine...

Dachau, Germany-based start-up takwak today unveiled a new device for outdoor enthusiasts that brings together an handheld GPS, an Android Smartphone and a Walkie Talkie. At the hardware level the tw700 brings together a Sirfstar IV GPS...

Trimble today has announced the launch of two consumer applications: Outdoors MyTopo Maps is running on the iPad and made for preparing outdoor adventures while Outdoors Navigator, running on iPhone and Android, is a route finder app with offline...

This week DeLorme announced the commercial availability of its inReach Two-Way Satellite Communicator and GPS Device. inReach, unveiled early 2011 at the CES trade show in las Vegas, offers send-and-receive text messaging, interactive SOS,...

track metrics such as speed, pace, distance, time, calories, location and with the help of Garmin accessories displays heart rate and cadence. The application costs $0.99 in iTunes. The data stored on the iPhone and Android Apps is...

Spanish Outdoor GPS handhelds vendor CompeGPS has signed an agreement with United Kingdom based consumer electronics distribution company SM Group Europe for the distribution of the TwoNav range products in the British market. SM Group Europe...

Motorola yesterday unveiled MOTOACTV, a small wearable computer that is both a fitness performance tracker and a music player that can be associated with headphones with built-in heart rate monitors. The device, that can be worn with a wrist,...