PRESS RELEASE Garmin Online Training Community Gets a ...
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<strong>PRESS</strong> <strong>RELEASE</strong><br />
29 August 2007<br />
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Eurobike, Hall A5 Stand 201<br />
<strong>Garmin</strong> <strong>Online</strong> <strong>Training</strong> <strong>Community</strong> <strong>Gets</strong> a Makeover<br />
<strong>Garmin</strong> has today announced the launch of <strong>Garmin</strong> Connect — a community website for<br />
customers to store, view and share activities/locations recorded by <strong>Garmin</strong> fitness and<br />
recreational devices. <strong>Garmin</strong> Connect (found online at connect.garmin.com) is the evolution of<br />
the MotionBased website. It maintains many of the same features and the entire customer and<br />
activity database but with a more powerful technology infrastructure and streamlined user<br />
interface.<br />
“We are thrilled with this opportunity to enhance our relationships with <strong>Garmin</strong> Connect<br />
users,” said Dan Bartel, <strong>Garmin</strong>’s vice president of worldwide sales. “As we continue to<br />
develop ways to use GPS technology and other <strong>Garmin</strong> products for personal betterment,<br />
our focus on fitness helps people make strides toward a healthier lifestyle.”<br />
The first version of <strong>Garmin</strong> Connect is scheduled to launch in October 2007 to exclusively<br />
support the recently announced Forerunner 50, <strong>Garmin</strong>’s new fitness watch, through automatic<br />
wireless downloads. The second release of <strong>Garmin</strong> Connect is scheduled to launch in December<br />
2007 adding GPS support for use with other <strong>Garmin</strong> products and will inherit the MotionBased<br />
customer and activity database, which currently stores more than 1.5 million public activities and<br />
is growing at a rate of 3,500 per day.<br />
“The <strong>Garmin</strong> Connect team is excited to foster the community that is home to thousands of<br />
activities each day, and we embrace the opportunity to further integrate with <strong>Garmin</strong>’s growing<br />
family of innovative products and passionate people,” said Aaron Roller, co-founder and CTO of<br />
MotionBased.<br />
In addition to improvements in performance and the user interface, the transition to <strong>Garmin</strong><br />
Connect will introduce more features and a new subscription model. <strong>Garmin</strong> Connect will now be<br />
FREE for all customers who wish to store and access all of their activities uploaded to the site.<br />
<strong>Garmin</strong> Connect will still maintain a paid-subscription service, <strong>Garmin</strong> Connect Plus, to access<br />
advanced features. Existing MotionBased customers with annual paid subscriptions will be<br />
grandfathered into <strong>Garmin</strong> Connect Plus.<br />
<strong>Garmin</strong> Connect will support a variety of operating systems (Windows 2000/XP/Vista; Mac OS X<br />
by the end of 2007) and browsers (Internet Explorer 6+; Firefox 2+; Safari 2+).<br />
<strong>Garmin</strong> Connect’s Web-based subscription service complements <strong>Garmin</strong>’s fitness and outdoor<br />
devices, including products in the Forerunner, Edge and eTrex lines. Following an activity,<br />
<strong>Garmin</strong> users upload the data and can personalise and categorise each activity. <strong>Garmin</strong> Connect<br />
calculates measurements such as time, distance, speed, elevation and heart rate. Now more<br />
compatible across operating systems and Web browsers, <strong>Garmin</strong> Connect displays this<br />
information through charts, illustrations, reports and a variety of map representations including<br />
street, photo, topographic, and elevation maps as well as the popular Google Earth application to<br />
visualise their activity. Users can replay their workout using media controls as they watch<br />
themselves move along the mapped route coupled with an elevation profile.<br />
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Each activity stored in a personal online digest and marked as public may be accessed by<br />
anyone visiting the <strong>Garmin</strong> Connect site. Visitors have access to all of the activities at no cost,<br />
and they may search activities by keyword and location to find popular routes while travelling, or<br />
to engage in “virtual races” with other <strong>Garmin</strong> Connect members.<br />
About <strong>Garmin</strong><br />
<strong>Garmin</strong> (Europe) Ltd. is a member of the <strong>Garmin</strong> Ltd. (Nasdaq: GRMN) group of companies which designs, manufactures, markets<br />
and sells navigation, communication and information devices and applications - most of which are enabled by GPS technology.<br />
<strong>Garmin</strong> is a leader in consumer and general aviation navigation and its products serve the automotive/mobile, outdoor/fitness, marine<br />
and aviation markets. <strong>Garmin</strong> Ltd. is incorporated in the Cayman Islands, and its principal subsidiaries are located in the United<br />
States, Taiwan and the United Kingdom. For more information visit <strong>Garmin</strong>'s media centre at www.garmin.co.uk/mediacentre. <strong>Garmin</strong>,<br />
Edge, Forerunner, Foretrex, eTrex and MotionBased are registered trademarks and <strong>Garmin</strong> Connect is a trademark of <strong>Garmin</strong> Ltd. or<br />
its subsidiaries.<br />
All other brands, product names, company names, trademarks and service marks are the properties of their respective owners. All<br />
rights reserved.<br />
Notice on forward-looking statements:<br />
This release includes forward-looking statements regarding <strong>Garmin</strong> Ltd. and its business. All statements regarding the company’s<br />
future product introductions and expected product availability dates are forward-looking statements. Such statements are based on<br />
management's current expectations. The forward-looking events and circumstances discussed in this release may not occur and<br />
actual results could differ materially as a result of known and unknown risk factors and uncertainties affecting <strong>Garmin</strong>, including, but<br />
not limited to, the risk factors listed in the Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 30, 2006 filed by <strong>Garmin</strong> with the<br />
Securities and Exchange Commission (Commission file number 0-31983). A copy of <strong>Garmin</strong>’s Form 10-K can be downloaded at<br />
www.garmin.com/about<strong>Garmin</strong>/invRelations/finReports.html. No forward-looking statement can be guaranteed. Forward-looking<br />
statements speak only as of the date on which they are made and <strong>Garmin</strong> undertakes no obligation to publicly update or revise any<br />
forward-looking statement, whether as a result of new information, future events, or otherwise.<br />
For more information please contact:<br />
Hannah Mercer or Clare Lush<br />
GCI London<br />
020 7072 4109 / 020 7072 4226<br />
hmercer@gciuk.com / clush@gciuk.com<br />
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