Garmin has just announced they will expand their flagship Garmin Mobile service offering. Garmin Mobile 3.0 is currently available to Sprint Nextel mobile subscribers (CDMA and iDEN respectively) with a compatible phone. The mobile software upgrade adds more mapping points of interest (POI) -- such as restaurants, fuel prices, weather and live traffic reports. Traffic data is automatically calculated into routing so that it can direct you to follow an alternative path that will route you around possible delays. Gas pricing information is tracked by compiling recent credit card transactions in the area being recorded by OPIS, a petroleum pricing group.

Garmin Mobile will give you turn-by-turn directions to any address located in the United Statess and Puerto Rico. With the latest 3.0 software update you will have access to over 6 million points of interest. The current pricing is set @ $9.99 per month for unlimited usage.

Posted by mobilemodo at 09:47 AM | Permalink Posted to Mobile Applications | News | Software Update | Sprint Nextel

Palm announced that they are immediately making available the Windows Messaging and Security Feature Pack (MSFP) upgrade (a.k.a AKU2), which will allow you to unlock full support for email Direct Push Technlogy.You will need to backup all your data on the 700w before nabbing the software from Verizon's or Palm's support sites when it is made available. They have not stated, but we surmise this also includes the DST fix to problems 700w customers experienced during the recent time change in the U.S. So, hey this doesn't affect any 700p treos -- because they haven't been officially launched yet -- see rumormill.

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Posted by mobilemodo at 04:21 PM | Permalink Posted to Mobile Applications | News | Rumors | Software Update | Treo | Verizon