If hiking, biking, geocaching, and other outdoor activities are the core focus of your trips, then you ill love the new Foris GPS handheld device unveiled by Rand McNally, a company founded in 1856 that specializing in maps, navigation, road travel and trip planing. This new gadget unveiled at the Outdoor Retailer show is designed for outdoor fun, the Foris™ 850 being equipped with extensive high-quality street and trail maps, a bike mount and an intuitive and user friendly interface.
“We have aggregated and created the best outdoor content, and engineered the device with features needed for a variety of outdoor activities,” said Dave Muscatel, CEO of Rand McNally. “We are very excited to be working with Falk Outdoor, which is one of the leading players in outdoor navigation in Europe, to develop a product for the U.S. market. Leveraging their hardware and our content, we’ve been able to create a leading-edge handheld at a price typically reserved for more entry-level devices.”
The new Foris™ was developed by Rand McNally together with Falk Outdoor Navigation, a business unit of United Navigation Limited. The suggested retail price for the gadget is of $399 (plus applicable taxes). A first in a future line of handheld products, Foris™ 850 will be available for shipment to stores in spring 2012.