550 millions GPS-enabled phones to be shipped

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550 millions GPS-enabled phones to be shipped

Written by Meraj Chhaya on May 9, 2008 – 5:08 pm

According to ABI research, 550 million GPS-enabled phones will be shipped by 2012, this is fuelled by navigation convergence from GPS devices to phones, Geotagging, and other applications which require the use of a GPS receiver and empower the use of a mobile phone, such as Nokia Sports Tracker.

Nokia’s Henri Mattila had announced that future NSeries phones will all incorporate a GPS receiver, further increasing pressure for competitors to do the same, which makes this number not just reachable, but also perhaps smaller than the future reality might be.

“While most CDMA handsets are already GPS-enabled and GPS is set to become a standard feature in GSM smartphones, GSM feature phones are next on the agenda to be equipped with GPS technology,“ says ABI Research principal analyst Dominique Bonte. “GPS chipset vendors increasingly target handsets, looking for new markets and spurred on by the recent dramatic growth of personal navigation devices.”

Source: Cellular-News