Articles tagged with: E911 and Iphone

Nokia kick-starts GPS market in Europe

Opinion piece by Tony Cripps and Michele Mackenzie, principal analysts

According to a new Ovum forecast, the market for GPS-enabled mobile devices will grow rapidly, from an estimated 163.9 million shipments in 2007 to almost 572 million in 2012. In the early years this growth has been driven by the CDMA players, namely Qualcomm, serving large CDMA markets such as the US, where the e911 mandate stipulates the use of location-based technologies in handsets, and markets such as Korea and Japan where demand for location-enabled services is higher than in other regions.  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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