Garmin Mobile GPS app coming to BlackBerry handsets in Europe

It’s interesting how the BlackBerry is evolving from its roots as a corporate email device. One of the biggest drivers right now, if you’ll pardon the pun, is its capabilities for satellite navigation, courtesy of built-in GPS or Bluetooth receivers. I tried the Vodafone-branded app in my BlackBerry Curve the other day, and was hugely impressed.

Now Garmin wants in on the BlackBerry GPS action, announcing that its Garmin Mobile app will be coming to BlackBerry devices in Europe this September, having already rolled out in the US. It’ll cost around £90, and will offer local traffic and weather, as well as the usual directions and points of interest.

It’ll face stiff competition, of course, both from those operators like Vodafone who are preloading GPS apps, and also from rival companies like 3DVU, which announced plans to launch its own Navi2Go app for BlackBerrys earlier this week.

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