Articles tagged with: Ims and Navigation

PND Market Needs to Locate Next Evolution, says IMS Research

Despite what many are predicting, the Personal navigation device (PND) market is not set to tail off dramatically. Rather, the market needs to be a little more realistic in its expectations, while also looking to develop a compelling new feature set.  more

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2008 Cellular GPS Market Set to Overshadow PND Shipments

A bumper Christmas market is set to make GPS the hottest new feature in the cellular market. Taking the huge CDMA GPS market aside, GPS-enabled handsets are set to greatly outnumber PND shipments in 2008.  more

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Is iPhone's Wi-Fi Based Location Finder Better than GPS?

This week, Steve Jobs announced that the iPhone will feature Skyhook Wireless' Wi-Fi location technology in a joint development with Google. It is easy to write this off as a stop gap solution for GPS, but for me, this is a first step towards the next generation of cellular location technology.  more

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Cameras help to drive 5-fold increase in GPS Consumer Market

Traditionally, geo-tagging has been a complicated procedure, restricting the market to hardcore enthusiasts and professional users. However, new GPS and LBS advances are enabling this market while also driving consumer growth for GPS into cameras and laptops. As analysed in a recent ims Research report, GPS is going to be integrated in a number of portable devices, such as laptops, PMPs, cellular and digital cameras. The overall market is set to increase 5-fold by 2011, with laptops and digital cameras representing over 20% of the market.  more

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