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Articles tagged with: Pnds and Gps
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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Global PND Shipments Will Stagnate at 39 Million Units in 2009
The once booming personal navigation device market is grinding to a halt in 2009 with little or no growth expected in most regions. With the European PND market forecast to decline and the North American market remaining flat, Asia-Pacific remains the only growth market. more
Related Tags: nokia, smartphone, eu, abi-research, lbs, ovi, personal, touchscreen, pnd, tomtom, tomtom, personal-navigation-device
North America overtakes EMEA as largest satellite navigation market
North America overtook EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) as the largest regional market for pnds (portable navigation devices) in the final quarter of 2008, according to the latest research from Canalys. In Q4 2008, the US alone accounted for 52% of the worldwide PND shipment total, compared to 36% for EMEA. more
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Location Ecosystem Still Looking for Sustainable Growth and Viable Business Model
Despite the relative success of Personal Navigation Devices (pnds) and industrial GPS applications, the location ecosystem has yet to reach a mature stage as it continues to encounter challenges on its way to continued profitable growth. While penetration levels of consumer telematics and LBS services remain low, the more established product categories suffer from price erosion and dwindling margin levels as evidenced by the recent financial results of PND vendor TomTom. more
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82 Million Location-based Mobile Social Networking Subscriptions by 2013
Mobile location-based social networking is expected to become a key driver for the uptake of location-based services as it provides a unifying framework for a large set of applications such as friend finders, local search and geo-tagging. While many LBS applications will include features allowing the sharing of real-time experiences via fixed social networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace, fully-fledged mobile location-based social networking sites will also gain momentum with more than 82 million subscriptions expected by 2013. more
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GPS smartphone shipments overtake PNDs in EMEA
Based on its latest research, Canalys estimates that global shipments of pnds (Portable Navigation Devices) in Q3 2008 rose 14% year-on-year, from 7.7 million to 8.8 million units, with North America and Asia Pacific still seeing good volume growth, of 49% and 25% respectively. But shipments in EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) were down 6% in the same period. more
Related Tags: asia-pacific, garmin, pnd, satellite, 3, tomtom, tomtom
PND Shipment Growth Decelerates as Alternatives Gain Ground
The Portable Navigation Device's (PND's) days of navigation domination are numbered, as mobile-handset alternatives gain in popularity over the next few years, according to iSuppli. more
Related Tags: smartphone, samsung, isuppli, smartphones, garmin, pnd, oem, e911
Almost 40% of smart phones shipping in EMEA have GPS integrated
A new report Canalys finds that growth slowed in the smart phone market in EMEA in Q2, but total shipments of 12.6 million still made it the second biggest quarter ever in volume terms. Canalys estimates that smart phones represented 13% of all mobile phone shipments. more
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Asia Navigation Device Shipments to Exceed 185 Million in 2012
Lower-priced pnds and GPS-enabled handsets helped the Asian navigation market to prosper in 2007, and total shipments topped 39 million for the year. That figure is expected to exceed 185 million in 2012, according to a new forecast from ABI Research. more
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In Europe, LBS Needs To Be More Than Sat-Nav
People have been saying, for some time, that the European cellular market is on the edge of finally embracing location based services (LBS); but, is this true? more
Related Tags: google, european-commission, roaming, location-based-services, edge, pnd, ims