MAGELLAN® ROADMATE™ 760 PORTABLE VEHICLE NAVIGATION SYSTEM RECEIVES CES 2006 INNOVATIONS AWARD

Santa Clara, CA (December 15, 2005) Thales, global innovator of navigation and positioning solutions, proudly announces that the Consumer Electronics Association has named its Magellan RoadMate 760 portable vehicle navigation system a 2006 Innovations Design and Engineering honoree in the Vehicle/Mobile Electronics category. The prestigious Innovations Design and Engineering Awards competition is endorsed by the Industrial Designers Society of America and is a hallmark for the best designed products in consumer technology, recognizing the most innovative consumer electronics products.

The Magellan RoadMate 760 is an easy-to-use portable vehicle navigation system boasting SayWhere™, an industry-first, text-to-speech feature that announces street names for upcoming maneuvers. The color, touch-screen Magellan RoadMate 760 delivers convenient, out-of-the-box street navigation capabilities with voice- and text-guided, turn-by-turn routing so drivers can find destinations quickly, detour around traffic, gain optimized routes to multiple destinations and quickly access a searchable database of more than six million points of interest. Its 20GB hard drive contains preloaded maps for the continental United States, Hawaii, Puerto Rico and Canada, plus the option to unlock maps for 27 European countries stored on the hard drive.

“The CES Innovations Award is always telling of the best and brightest consumer electronics solutions coming to market,” said Henry Gaillard, CEO and President of Thales Navigation. “Millions of Magellan and Hertz NeverLost customers -- and now the CEA -- attest to our leadership in this category. This is a particularly valuable award to us because innovation is a key ingredient to our success and a promise Magellan customers can expect us to continue to deliver on.”

The Magellan RoadMate 760 will be included in the Innovations 2006 Showcase during the 2006 International CES show in booth #72444 at the Sands Expo and Convention Center and at Magellan booth #31274 in the South Hall, January 5-8, 2006 in Las Vegas, NV.

Garmin Covers the Waterfront with New Chartplotter Lineup Featuring Pre-Loaded Cartography

Garmin’s new line of chartplotters literally puts the world at boaters’ fingertips,” said Gary Kelley, Garmin’s vice president of marketing. “With Garmin’s newly-enhanced marine cartography, mariners can spend less time deciphering charts and more time enjoying their time on the water. These new units offer a wide variety of display sizes and networking options that will attract everyone from the weekend angler to the dedicated offshore mariner.”

The GPSMAP® 492 features built-in Marine Detail Charts of the United States coastline, including Alaska and Hawaii – utilizing elements of Garmin’s new BlueChart® g2™ technology. These charts provide integrated maps for a much smoother presentation. BlueChart g2 has all the detail of traditional BlueChart, but with 3D perspective, and richer detail and content – data like tides and currents overlaid on the chart. Other chart features include shaded depth contours, port plans, wrecks, restricted areas, and more.

For boaters who spend their time on inland lakes, the GPSMAP 392 boasts 50-meter shoreline resolution for lakes across the entire continental United States. In addition, highly-detailed 10-meter resolution is furnished for more than 2000 of these lakes. The vast majority of these high resolution lakes include depth soundings. In addition, the maps depict USCG lights; a wrecks and obstructions database; tides and currents overlaid on the map; interstates, state highways, and rural roads; and a unique selectable three-dimensional display. Inland lake maps are also provided via regional data cards, so boaters have the option of loading Garmin’s other new chartplotters with these maps.

The GPSMAP 292 features an enhanced World Wide Basemap with a 300-meter shoreline resolution, and features major interstates and highways, and real-time information on tides and currents for the United States.

All units can be supplemented with BlueChart g2 data cards as well, which offer the same features as pre-loaded charts – plus highly-detailed coastal roads and points of interest such as restaurants, lodging, local attractions, and more. Full-color aerial photos of ports, marinas, bridges, and navigational landmarks are also initially available for the east coast of the United States from Georgia through Maine, selected lakes in the Great Lakes region, and partial coverage of the west coast. The estimated retail price for U.S. data cards starts at $199 – far less than competitors’ data cards.

The GPSMAP 492, 392, and 292 are all loaded with Garmin’s new CANet – a Controller Area Network that allows users to connect two chartplotters and a GSD-21 or GSD-22, Garmin’s new black-box sonar devices over a 1-megabit network. The GPSMAP 292, 392, and 492 are pre-programmed for use with Garmin’s new black-box sonar units, and the system can be easily installed by boat owners. Boaters can also connect the new Fishfinder 340 to the CANet to display sonar information on its new line of chartplotters.

For those who want a space-saving chartplotter and sonar combination unit, Garmin also offers the GPSMAP 298, GPSMAP 398, and GPSMAP 498. These units include either dual frequency or dual beam sonar capability, in addition to the chartplotting abilities of the GPSMAP 292, 392, and 492.

Garmin Shows Depth in New 2006 Fishfinder Lineup

Fishfinder 340C

OLATHE, Kan./November 15, 2005/PR Newswire — Garmin International Inc., a unit of Garmin Ltd. (Nasdaq: GRMN), today announced its new lineup of 2006 fishfinders, packed with features that will excite both the weekend inland angler and the serious offshore salt water fisherman.

“Garmin’s new line of sonar devices offer a great combination of features that will satisfy just about any boater’s requirements,” said Gary Kelley, Garmin’s vice president of marketing. “These units offer the same value, reliability, and innovation that boaters have come to know from Garmin.”

A number of new features come standard on all new Garmin fishfinders. To help freshwater anglers better pinpoint fish, Garmin now offers Ultrascroll™, which allows boaters to get a much faster refresh rate on their sonar display. The new line of units also have improved performance in shallow water – as little as a foot deep – that makes it easier to determine depth, structure, and fish targets. Auto gain, as well as user adjustable gain, is also standard on all of Garmin’s new fishfinders.

For serious anglers, Garmin offers the Fishfinder 340C – a full-featured sonar that offers a sunlight readable five-inch (diagonal) 320 x 234 pixel full-color TFT display. The Fishfinder 340C is offered in either a dual frequency configuration (50kHz, 45 deg and 200 kHz, 10 deg) – or, for inland anglers needing a wider fish-finding cone, a dual beam model (80kHz, 45 deg and 200kHz, 14 deg). Water temperature, a round flasher-style display, and an A-scope display also come standard on the Fishfinder 340.

In addition, the 340C is also enabled with Garmin’s new CANet™ -- a one-megabit Controller Area Network that allows users to connect their unit to one of the new GPSMAP® 200, 300, or 400-series chartplotter. This allows boaters to read sonar displays on chartplotters located elsewhere in the boat.

The new Fishfinder 160C offers anglers both utility and affordability. The unit is primarily targeted at inland boaters, with the same dual beam transducer as the Fishfinder 340C. The unit features a sunlight readable 4.5” (diagonal) 128 x 128 pixel, 16-color CSTN display.

For the value-minded boater, the new Fishfinder 140 features a 4.7-inch (diagonal) four-level grayscale FSTN display and a dual beam transducer (80kHz, 45 deg and 200kHz, 14 deg). For entry-level consumers, Garmin recommends the Fishfinder 90, with a four-inch (diagonal) 128 x 64 pixel black-and-white FSTN display.

All units also offer adjustable range and a rescaling range display, as well as adjustable scroll speed, scroll pause, 2x and 4x zoom, water speed, shallow and deep water alarm, fish alarm, and improved display of fish arches.

Garmin is also proud to unveil the new GSD™-21, a black-box sonar device that transmits over the one-megabit CANet network or a standard serial connection. Boat owners can easily install the CANet network, allowing sonar information to be displayed on Garmin’s new GPSMAP® 200, 300, or 400-series chartplotter. The GSD-21 is an analog sonar that is available in either dual frequency configuration (50kHz, 45 deg and 200 kHz, 10 deg) – or dual beam (80kHz, 45 deg and 200kHz, 14 deg).

The GSD-22 is Garmin’s first digital sonar – allowing for more precise target separation and depth performance. The unit works with dual frequency 2000 to 500 watt transducers, capable of finding the bottom at up to five thousand feet deep. The GSD-22 is compatible over either the CANet or the fully integrated Garmin Marine Network. Both new GSD units feature Ultrascroll and user adjustable or automatic gain.

Garmin’s entire line of new fishfinders is expected to be available in stores on March 25, 2006.
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