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Posted on: Monday, January 7, 2008

Garmin unveils portable navigator

McClatchy-Tribune News Service

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Coming soon to a GPS near you: just about everything but the kitchen sink.

Garmin International last week unveiled a new portable navigator with speech recognition, allowing users to get travel directions by simply asking for them.

The new Nuvi 880 also ties into new services offered by Microsoft, allowing users to get stock quotes, news, movie listings and traffic conditions.

The 880 is one of 11 new products that will be shown by Garmin this week at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. The device, which retails for $1,000, also is one of two new Garmin navigators that can link up with advanced services available wirelessly through Microsoft's MSN Direct.