Watches with GPS

Thursday, May 14th, 2009 at 11:48 am

GPS has in the last few years become one of the many things that human beings cannot do without. Get into a taxi cab anywhere in the Western world, and the driver will be navigating by means of a GPS sat nav system. Most motorists now have a GPS sat nav, and use it even for drives across the centre of a city. So it was only a matter of time until an alternative for pedestrians presented itself. And now it has – watches with GPS.

Buying a GPS enabled watch is the answer pedestrians have been looking for to the problem of arriving in an unfamilar city with little knowledge of the street layout or where one is going. Some personal GPS systems have been developed, but up to now all have been mobile phone-based and have therefore been impractical for the purpose of navigating around an unfamilar city. Unless you like being mugged, anyway.

Popular GPS Running Watches:

Garmin Forerunner 50 Sports Watch with Foot Pod

Garmin Forerunner 405 Green GPS-Enabled Sports Watch with USB ANT Stick & Heart Rate Monitor

Garmin Forerunner 405 Black GPS-Enabled Sports Watch with USB ANT Stick

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