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The top of the MY Series line of Navman specialist navigation units packs a broad range of features aimed at an equally broad range of uses.  The MY Escape is equally at ease whether it is finding the location of a suburban kid's birthday party as it is out on the not-so-beaten AWD tracks of the Australian bush.

It is getting harder to justify spending hundreds of dollars on a high end sat-nav device, pricing and features just keep improving at the lower end of the market.  Take for example the latest Navman EZY series of devices.

In the era of converged devices it's interesting to see what the marriage between Garmin, a maker of sat-nav devices, and Asus, the Taiwanese consumer electronics juggernaut, can deliver. Unlike Frankenstein's monster, the Nuvifone A50 puts all the pieces together to create a nicely integrated smartphone that's made with the travelling professional in mind.

Keep left you must as Master Yoda joins Darth Vader in lending his voice talents to Tom Tom GPS units.

With GPS hardware now becoming a standard feature in all sorts of devices, more attention is being focussed on the hardware. CoPilot Live, adds satellite navigation to the iPhone but in a crowded market, does it do enough to stand out?