{"id":81991,"date":"2012-11-27T21:49:35","date_gmt":"2012-11-27T13:49:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/car-kit-turns-your-phone-into-a-navigation-device\/"},"modified":"2012-11-27T21:49:35","modified_gmt":"2012-11-27T13:49:35","slug":"car-kit-turns-your-phone-into-a-navigation-device","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/car-kit-turns-your-phone-into-a-navigation-device\/","title":{"rendered":"Car Kit Turns Your Phone into a Navigation Device"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tags: GPS, Magellan, Gadget, App<\/p>\n<p>Publication Date: 11\/26\/2012<\/p>\n<table width=\"150\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\" cellpadding=\"6\" cellspacing=\"2\" margin=\"5\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"225\" hspace=\"0\" align=\"right\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/Assets\/Image\/MagellanCarKit.jpg\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<i>The Magellan Car Kit uses a GPS receiver to transform an iPhone into a navigation device.<\/i><br \/>\nImage credit: Magellan\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>Consumer GPS navigation products firm <strong>Magellan<\/strong> releasing a new GPS car kit for iPhones that enhances it with more powerful antennas to transform it into a dashboard navigation device. The cradle is also a charging station for the phone and is equipped with a Bluetooth speaker.  <\/p>\n<p>Magellan\u2019s GPS Car Kit costs approximately $100 and it can be adjusted to any iPhone 3GS, 4 and 4S and to some iPod Touch. A version for the recent generation of <strong>Apple<\/strong> products, such as the iPhone 5, has not been released. Like many of the company\u2019s products, this one also has a suction cup mount that sticks to a car\u2019s windshield. <\/p>\n<p>The GPS Car Kit works with any navigation app but it has been reported to be faster with Magellan\u2019s own $50 app.<\/p>\n<p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"20\" height=\"20\" align=\"absMiddle\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/Assets\/Image\/FullStoryArrow.png\">&nbsp;Full story<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tags: GPS, Magellan, Gadget, App Publication Date: 11\/26\/2012 The Magellan Car Kit uses a GPS receiver to transform an iPhone into a navigation device. Image credit: Magellan Consumer GPS navigation products firm Magellan releasing a new GPS car kit for iPhones that enhances it with more powerful antennas to transform it into a dashboard navigation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81991"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81991\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}