GPS manufacturers are caught between a rock and a hard place: The rise of GPS-enabled handsets like Apple's iPhone and Android-powered smartphones has reduced demand for stand-alone GPS devices, but ...

Standalone GPS devices are a dying breed. Anyone with a half-way decent smartphone can get from point A to point B with a few taps of an onscreen keyboard and it’s abundantly clear that standalone ...

Nokia’s announcement Thursday of free voice navigation for its GPS smartphones is bound to pound some GPS competitors such as Garmin Ltd. and TomTom. There was already a short-term impact, with ...

YONKERS, NY — Garmin and TomTom GPS models continue to score high and provide the best overall packages in Consumer Reports recent tests of more than 90 GPS units. The top-rated Garmin Nuvi 885T ($600 ...

YONKERS, NY — Despite the influx of several new brands and models, longtime GPS brands—Garmin, TomTom and Magellan―are still making the best Global Positioning Systems. The three brands accounted for ...

I am going to need a car nav system pretty soon and, looking at the various options from TomTom/Garmin, am utterly at a loss: loads of models, no easy way of figuring out the differences between them ...

TomTom has been in the GPS business for a long time. Much like Garmin, the company has been using its expertise in location technology to sell fitness trackers for the past couple of years. One of its ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover mobile hardware, software and gaming. This article is more than 10 years old. GPS device vendors Garmin and TomTom are ...

I have had a busy month being on the road three out of the last 4 weeks. For part of that time I was in my own car driving around different parts of Florida and for others I was in rented cars ...

When it comes to the best outdoors watches, Garmin has had the market sewn up. Its GPS sports watches have set the gold standard, but for our money, it’s TomTom that’s offered the best response with ...

Lawyers for 11 Pennsylvania residents injured in 2013 when their charter bus slammed into an overpass in Boston, Mass., are suing GPS device manufacturers TomTom and Garmin, seeking more than $15 ...