GPS Enabled Walkie Talkies

Safety gets high-tech! With the advent of the Global Positioning System (GPS), more and more electronics are getting on the bandwagon. Now you can even get Walkie Talkies that are GPS enabled. It's because more and more folks are realizing that GPS walkie talkies are an indispensable safety item.

These handheld units receive the GPS system, making them perfect for hiking, biking or even driving in the car. Typical GPS data includes your current location, which direction you're heading and what speed, the estimated time to your destination, and tracks your route. Most models include a general base map that can be seen with detail just by downloading map data from a CD. You can manually create your own route, name and save waypoints, and (depending on the model) get turn-by-turn directions.

The Garmin Rino 110, for example, is a GPS-enabled handheld that integrates radio functionality to provide two-way communications. It's waterproof, can send communications up to five miles (using GMRS channels), and can beam (so to speak) your exact location to another Rino user within a two-mile range (on the FRS spectrum) using "Position Reporting." And because the Rino 110 has standard FRS capabilities, you can talk to friends or family who own conventional FRS radios.

With this particular model, you'd find features such as:

As handheld GPS-enabled Walkie Talkies become more in demand, the technology is bound to keep up with the changing times. This is just the beginning of much bigger things to come.