Global Positioning Systems (GPS)
Software provides mobile resource management.
Press Release Summary:
Paired with GPS Buddy on virtually any GPS handset or Bluetooth wireless-enabled smartphone, Garmin Mobile XT provides complete mobile resource management. Users can monitor workforce in real-time and communicate with mobile workers. If office needs to direct employee to new location, they can receive turn-by-turn, voice-prompted directions to new destination on smartphone. Users can also look up millions of points of interest such as restaurants, hotels, ATMs, and gas stations.
Original Press Release:
Garmin®Mobile XT(TM) and GPS Buddy Introduce Mobile Resource Management Application
OLATHE, Kan., March 15 / -- Garmin International Inc., a unit of Garmin Ltd. (NASDAQ:GRMN), today announced that Garmin Mobile XT can now be paired with GPS Buddy on virtually any GPS handset or Bluetooth wireless-enabled smartphone -- providing complete mobile resource management that is designed to enhance the productivity of a workforce.
"Paired with GPS Buddy, Garmin Mobile XT gives companies the tools they need to ensure their business runs smoothly," said Roger Jollis, Garmin's director of OEM and mobile marketing. "And since many mobile workforces already own smartphones, incorporating Garmin Mobile XT and GPS Buddy is a cost-effective solution as well."
Paired with Garmin Mobile XT, GPS Buddy gives a company the capability to monitor its workforce in real time and communicate with mobile workers via any applicable smartphone -- directly over the handset's wireless provider. If the office needs to direct an employee to a new location, they can receive turn-by-turn, voice-prompted directions to the new destination on their smartphone. Initially, this solution will be available on smartphones operating with Microsoft Windows Mobile platforms but will be available on select Symbian and Palm OS handsets later in the year.
"All our software and web services for extensive fleet management solutions are already available in twelve languages," said Thomas Verhuyck, GPS Buddy's director of localization services. "More languages will be added, so that our very affordable solutions will be available in more and more countries."
Garmin Mobile XT maps are pre-programmed on a memory card that is inserted into a smartphone, giving the handset powerful features and Garmin's intuitive interface. Workers can use their smartphone's internal GPS receiver or purchase a GPS receiver like Garmin's GPS 10x(TM), a compact GPS receiver that uses Bluetooth wireless connectivity.
Garmin Mobile XT allows the user to look up millions of points of interest such as restaurants, hotels, ATMs, and gas stations. After entering a destination, the device will automatically provide voice-prompted, turn-by-turn directions to a destination. Depending on service availability in a particular area, users can also access traffic information, fuel prices, weather conditions and forecasts, and other location-based services directly on their mobile phone.
More information and pricing is available at http://www.gps-buddy.com/.
About GPS Buddy
GPS Buddy is at the forefront of easy-to-use business solutions for tracking, managing, monitoring, messaging, navigation and routing from door-to-door. All solutions are already available in more than 20 countries.
About Garmin
Garmin International, Inc. is a member of the Garmin Ltd. (NASDAQ:GRMN) group of companies which designs, manufactures, markets, and sells navigation, communication and information devices and applications -- most of which are enabled by GPS technology. Garmin is a leader in consumer and general aviation navigation and its products serve the automotive/mobile, outdoor/fitness, marine, and aviation markets. Garmin Ltd. is incorporated in the Cayman Islands, and its principal subsidiaries are located in the United States, Taiwan and the United Kingdom. For more information, visit Garmin's virtual pressroom at www.garmin.com/pressroom or contact the Media Relations department at 913-397-8200. Garmin is a registered trademark, and Garmin Mobile XT and GPS 10x are trademarks of Garmin Ltd. or its subsidiaries.
CONTACT: Ted Gartner or Jessica Myers, both of Garmin International Inc., +1-913-397-8200, media.relations@garmin.com
Web site: http://www.garmin.com/
http://www.gps-buddy.com/
