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Articles tagged with: A Gps and Wi Fi
Game-Changing Moves Strengthen Consumer LBS in North America
The consumer location-based services (LBS) market has steadily evolved over the past few years, always promising significant revenue generation, but never quite delivering the critical mass of subscribers that were expected. Now, a number of factors - including the development of third-party location databases and technologies - are poised to finally drive real LBS market growth on mobile phones. more
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LG Offers More Details of Flagship Touchscreen Phone
LG has given more details of the LG ARENA (LG-KM900) phone, which was previewed last week. ARENA, LG's new flagship model for 2009 features a totally new 3D user interface, which in some regards reflects how some Linux based computers can be configured to work. It is also the first and currently the only multimedia phone for the global market to use Dolby Mobile from Dolby Laboratories. more
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LG Previews New Touch-Screen Phone
LG Electronics has announced the launch of its new flagship mobile phone for 2009 - the LG Arena (LG-KM900). This fully loaded multimedia phone with LG's innovative and dynamic 3D S-Class User Interface will be on hand at the Mobile World Congress 2009 in Barcelona. more
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GPS Smartphones Generating Renewed Momentum for the LBS Infrastructure Industry
The recent launches of GPS-enabled smartphones with touch screen interfaces such as AppleÃ's iPhone, the BlackBerry Storm, the T-Mobile G1, NokiaÃ's 5800 XpressMusic, and Sony EricssonÃ's Xperia X1 are fueling interest in handset-based navigation and location based services (LBS) despite the worsening economic climate. In turn this drives both third party LBS application development and the roll out of LBS infrastructure by carriers to support the much needed Secure User Plane Location (SUPL)-compliant Assisted GPS functionality. more
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Skyhook Wireless Brings Wi-Fi Location to Symbian OS
Skyhook Wireless, provider of the Wi-Fi Positioning System (WPS) has demonstrated Wi-Fi positioning on the latest version of Symbian OS, v9.5. The collaborative work between the two partner companies demonstrates support for SkyhookÃ's Wi-Fi Positioning System (WPS) by SymbianÃ's LBS architecture, enabling fast and accurate location acquisition in urban and indoor environments. more
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LG Shows Off 8 Megapixel Touchscreen Phone
LG Electronics has shown off another touch-screen phone, the LG-KC910 (Renoir), this time with an 8 megapixel camera and built in Dolby Mobile sound. more
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LG Shows Off 8-Megapixel Touch-Screen Phone
LG Electronics has announced a new handset, which it says is the first touch-screen phone to come with an 8-megapixel camera, the LG-KC910. more
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Two New N-Series Phones from Nokia
Nokia has shown off two new mobile phones as part of its N-Series, the N79 and N85. more
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Over 550 Million GPS-Enabled Handsets Will Ship by 2012
In the wake of personal navigation devicesÃ' success, cellular carriers have started to offer on-board and off-board navigation solutions, as well as a range of LBS (Location Based Services) such as friend finder and local search on GPS handsets. Community and social-networking-related functionality, such as the sharing of POIs (Points of Interest) and geo-tagged pictures, is also becoming popular and is expected to boost GPS-enabled handset uptake as carriers, handsets manufacturers, and service providers look to capitalize on the LBS trend. more
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