All your GPS are belong to us
September 9, 2008 – 10:40 am | by Azizi
One day, our phones will do absolutely everything for us. It’s hard to believe how many different functions a basic phone can do, let alone more advanced smartphones like the Treo Pro or iPhone 3G. Phones are already outselling (and replacing) watches and digital cameras. Now, the standalone GPS unit has also lost the battle against the mighty mobile phone.
According to IMS Research, more GPS-enabled handsets will ship this year than standalone navigation devices. Just like digital cameras, we are seeing a split where the standalone devices get more features and capacity while mobile phones take advantage of smaller and cheaper chips. The line gets blurry with high end phones, for example the Nokia N series which sport high 5-megapixel resolutions and custom Carl Zeiss lenses.
I guess it won’t be long before most phones sport GPS receivers as a standard feature. Thanks to the iPhone 3G and also Google’s Android, more software developers and starting to develop useful location-based utilities and applications.
[ via MobHappy ]
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