MOTONAV GC550 GPS device found in FCC filing, nowhere else on the internet

Here's an interesting case. A new Motorola GPS unit, the MOTONAV GC550, has popped up in a filing to the FCC. It's got external photos, a full manual, all the relevant tests, the works -- and yet, somehow as of this writing, it seems to have never been mentioned anywhere on the internet, at least as far as Google, Bing, and Twitter are concerned. From what we can glean from the manual, the touchscreen device sports 3D mapping, voice commands, Bluetooth pairing with your phone for hands-free use, a microSD slot (presumably for updates like the previous models), Google local search, and information on weather, traffic, and flights. Not contained in these unearthed documents, unfortunately, is price or release date. Come on, Moto, don't keep us waiting long.

[(Unverified) Posted Aug 9th 2009 3:56AM]

....Yes you are well done little johnny *claps*

maybe Moto have decided to stay ingognito for a while

[(Unverified) Posted Aug 9th 2009 1:27PM]

Why would you cook little Johnny? And then be so happy as to celebrate by clapping in front of him? Sick fucker.

[(Unverified) Posted Aug 9th 2009 3:21PM]

So he can enjoy some dinner with fava beans and nice Chianti

[ROFL Posted Aug 9th 2009 4:31AM]

Looks really nice. Clean design.

[(Unverified) Posted Aug 9th 2009 4:48AM]

actually it's about as unclean as a rectangle with a screen on it can be

[(Unverified) Posted Aug 9th 2009 7:09AM]

The guy who designed this doesn't seem to understand the concept of straight lines.

[James Posted Aug 9th 2009 4:35AM]

Grats on being first on an article posted at 3:30am.

[ThomasK Posted Aug 9th 2009 7:18AM]

Isn't it because it will be used inside cars as a build-in navigation, so that in ford it will be named "ford navigation" and in skoda it will be "skoda navigation" ?

The 32 pin connector on the bottom does not seem like something what you useualy have on "hand" navigation

[(Unverified) Posted Aug 9th 2009 9:43AM]

I agree. It looks like something you would snap into your dash (not unlike a faceplate for a car audio system). Just fill it up with your 0's/1's inside the house and bring it out to the hoopty. I've been wondering when we might see a common sized device that I can move from car to car - or house (dock) to car.

[brr404 Posted Aug 9th 2009 10:32AM]

first to b a no-lifer

[Wwhat Posted Aug 9th 2009 11:45AM]

Beautifully show the lie/myth of the internet (and google). people always think you can find anything but when you use it a while and aren't into spears and paris hilton you know that no, there's tons and tons of stuff that should be on the internet and either isn't or it's simply not in google's db.
There are even relatively big sites that simply don't get spidered by google (or get edited away because sometimes I can't believe they'd had a no-spider-please file on it) and you can't use your normal web search engine to find a lot of stuff that is actually out there.
Not to mention that for many countries google and similar censor results, adding even more to the confusion.

[SomePerson Posted Aug 9th 2009 2:18PM]

For a second I thought it was a tablet :/

[(Unverified) Posted Aug 9th 2009 2:24PM]

Make that a phone and Moto has a hit.

[kobioshi Posted Aug 10th 2009 6:43PM]

Nice to know that some companies can still keep their mouths shut. It is also nice to know that the Internet isn't all powerful just yet.