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Dash Express GPS Updates Traffic Models, Software Update Coming

The Dash Express GPS just received its first historic traffic model update using the live Dash data gathered by users. That'll help predict traffic in areas where no Dash or other trusted data sources have been in the last 15 minutes. By end of month, a software update is coming with tweaks in performance, stability and routing. As for today's historic update, Dash recommends all users download the patch by Wi-Fi. Let's hope that more updates come often as this one, and with more features using that internet connection.

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Send Google Maps and MapQuest Addresses to Your Garmin

In a move not unlike the "Send2Car" feature on the Dash Express GPS navigator, Garmin has worked it so that people using Google Maps and MapQuest will easily be able to send the address they're looking at to their navigator, to avoid typing it in all over again. More »

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Dash Full Review: Don't Miss the Traffic Terminator

Hey, in case you missed it, don't forget to check out the most thorough review of the Dash on the web—we drove over 1000 miles with it so you don't have to. [Dash on Giz]

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Video: Real-Life Driving With Dash GPS

This video is what driving with Dash is usually like. At night, it can be especially undramatic, but even when there is a lot of traffic, the truth is, Dash doesn't reroute you often. I use the map as a guide and just drive around the reds (when there are reds). It's funny how the density of traffic data varies time to time, and by what zoom level you are at. But when these things hit the market in the next few days, the traffic data, minute by minute, should shoot up in density. (And until then, the dashed lines, which are based on historical models, are pretty useful.) Also, apologies for any motion sickness incurred from watching this video. Driving stick and using GPS and camcorder at the same time is not that easy. We dropped our review of this baby last night, culled from over 1000 miles of driving, so check it out. [Dash Express review on Giz]

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Dash Express GPS Full Drive Review: Total Traffic Terminator

We've been ranting about this internet-connected Dash Express GPS for months. Over the past week, we were given the opportunity to test it out for ourselves on both coasts, over a thousand miles, through intense city driving in SF and NY and road trips into the wilds. It's the real deal, delivering out of the box the most impressive real time traffic system we've ever seen, one that only will get better as each Dash user hit the road creating a swarm network of traffic avoiding drivers. Here's why:

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Dash Launches Express on Amazon, Drops Price to $400

These days, all but the most high-end (that is, overpriced) Garmin nuvis cost below $600, so it's great news that Dash—that fascinating experiment in "connected" GPS—has lowered the price of the Express from $600 to $400, and is selling them immediately on Amazon.com. If you pre-ordered, fear not: You will only be charged $400. Friends-and-family types who got devices early will be reimbursed the extra $200. If you want the instant traffic data, the wireless web searches and the periodic upgrades, you'll still have to pay that $10 to $13 subscription fee, but if you're a real cheapskate, you can let the free trial lapse and use it sans connectivity. Press release after the jump. [Amazon; Dash] More »

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Dash Express Pre-orders Shipping Now!

One of our readers just let us know that his Dash Express GPS device just shipped, one day ahead of the previous March 27 date. Don't know why this Dash GPS could be the coolest GPS device ever? Check here. Update: Dash PR just confirmed that they are shipping to pre-order customers. [Thanks Tipster!]

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The Secret to Dash GPS's Live Traffic Data: Networked Crowdsourcing

We're excited about the upcoming Dash Express GPS because it corrects so much of what's gone wrong with in-car navigation. In the end, you get the same green, yellow and red traffic indicators on highways that Google maps gets, plus that on some local roads. No other GPS has this. Because each unit is basically a two-way pager, it records the traffic you experience and shares it with others. It's a simple idea, perhaps, but to really harness the potentially unwieldy power of crowdsourcing, you need rules:
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Dash Express GPS Preorders Shipping March 27th

Dash Express GPS, one of my most highly anticipated gadgets, will ship to customers who preordered on March 27th. [Dash on Giz, Dash Blog]

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Dash Express Runs on OpenMoko FOSS Platform, Nerds' Heads Explode

Today we learned that the seductively interactive Dash Express GPS navigator is using the OpenMoko open-source mobility platform that led to the Neo 1973 smartphone. This makes the Dash the first product based on OpenMoko's GTA0X reference design, with GPS hardware designed to order by OpenMoko and its parent company, FIC. Did we need one more reason to love this thing? Well, we got it. (There's a press release down below.) More »

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Dash Express Video and Deets: Internet Connected GPS for $599

The big news today is that the eagerly anticipated Dash Express—that GPS that is internet connected for traffic data download and upload and all sorts of live data—is available for pre-order for $599 with three months of net service. After that, the data link will cost $10 to $13 monthly on top of that. Pricey to be sure, but the newly unveiled features solidify the Dash's reputation as a turn-by-turn GPS navigator unlike anything seen before:
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A Holiday GPS Navigator Gadget Round Up for the Ages

After lighting up the Today Show last week, today Wilson's burning up the pages of the Grey Lady with a rundown of hot holiday gifts loaded up with GPS. There's navigation gear for hikers like Bushnell's waterproof ONIX 400 (complete with XM radio), Garmin's Forerunner 305 for power-joggers, the usual car-mounted suspects like Garmin's Nuvi line and the hotly anticipated Dash GPS w/ a built-in cellular modem. The point is, no matter where you going or what you're doing, there's a navigator with GPS for it. Check out Wilson's piece to see just which gadget goes where and for how much in a single convenient article, no GPS necessary. [NYT]

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Video: Dash GPS + Zillow = Real Estate Stalk Fest


At the Web 2.0 conference, Dash GPS announced that they were providing an open API for mashing up the Cellular-equipped navigator with webapps. Here's the first live demo of Dash being used to drive through a neighborhood and call up the price and details on every house on the street using Zillow.com's Database. See that Silicon Valley house with the red door? It's 1150 square feet, yet 1.1 million bucks. What's cooler is that they've got craigslist, yahoo! search and other plugins for the Spring launch. And people will build a dozens more. I'm stoked for this thing. [Dash on Giz]

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Dash Navigator Now Open to 3rd Party Apps

The eagerly anticipated Dash connected GPS navigator just made another extreme promise, offering third parties a chance to develop for the system. The example Dash uses is the real-estate value database Zillow—you can use the tool to check values of homes in the vicinity, as you see in the above pic. Dash will also encourage data providers to share data in standard formats such as RSS and KML (Google Earth files). After the jump, you can see a shot of the tool used to turn tags into Dash buttons. The company has lots to deliver on—we're expecting review units in late December or January. [Dash] Thanks Gina! More »

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Dash Express Next-Gen GPS Navigator Gets Official Look and Launch Schedule (Gallery)

If you want to know what the next big move in navigation will look like, it's the Dash Express, shown here for the first time in its final design. The wireless net-connected GPS is just about through with its successful national road beta test (which many of you have participated in) and it's on track for early 2008 launch. Here are the stats, plus a gallery of homespun product and screen shots:
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Epson Launches PictureMate Dash and PictureMate Zoom with CD Burner

Epson jacked up its latest 4x6 photo printers with larger LCD screens (now 3.6") and faster print times: they can handle a full-quality borderless print in 37 seconds. The new PictureMate Zoom includes a CD burner too, so you can dump a day of shooting to disc for archiving or sharing. More »

T-Mobile Dash Windows Mobile 6 Update Available Now Go get it. Just back up all your data first because it'll wipe everything clean. Update Page [T-Mobile]

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T-Mobile Dash Windows Mobile 6 Upgrade Coming May 4

In case you didn't believe our tipster when we told you the Dash was getting a Windows Mobile 6 upgrade tomorrow, T-Mobile has just confirmed it for realsies. More »