Smartphone VS GPS

The question at hand is: Will my smartphone suffice as a GPS device?
Let’s analyze some of the feats for both a smartphone that utilizes GPS technology and a stand-alone GPS device.

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AT&T Introduces GPS-Enabled USB Device

Just leave it to the americans to do it.

AT&T has introduced a GPS-enabled USB device, the USBConnect Velocity from Option. The Velocity is the first GPS-enabled LaptopConnect device from AT&T, opening the door to location-based applications, AT&T said.

Option offers a free software application, the Option GPS Control Panel, that leverages location-enabled sites such as Yahoo! Maps and Bing for directions and local points of interest. Option GPS Control Panel is available for download on the Option support web page. Additionally, through TeleNav Track LITE and Xora GPS Locator from AT&T, enterprise customers can add tracking and location awareness, improving response time by locating the closest worker to a service call, AT&T said.

The device features an integrated micro SD-card slot, making it a portable storage device that allows users to carry the data and files they need.

This may also have a viable market here in the UK, but it’s gonna take a while until we’ll get to play with one in our trips.

Source: GPSWorld

Fans Can Take Snoop Dogg On The Road With Them Through GPS

Rapper Snoop Dogg continues to find ways to think outside of the box. As other rappers are branching out and launching fragrance and new brands for alcohol, the Dogg sets his sights to even newer horizons.

Partnering up with voiceskins.com, Uncle Snoop will now be launching his own GPS system. The VoiceSkin will be available for download for drivers that utilize the TomTom GPS navigation systems.

Using the application, drivers will be able to be directed to their desired location with the rapper’s actual voice navigating them turn-by-turn. Keeping things personal, users will also have th chance to download a “Points of Interest” file which will contain some of Snoop’s favorite spots in his nesting grounds of Los Angeles.
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SiRF Unveils Next Generation GPS

SiRF, the San Jose-based embedded GPS company, has unveiled SiRFstar IV, a vast upgrade to the GPS architecture used in many portable and in-car GPS systems released over the past five years.

The new architecture aims to reduce battery drain, and it allows for much smaller receiver components. Intriguingly, SiRF designed SiRFstar IV not to just coexist with other components in cell phones and other consumer electronics, but take advantage of the additional sensors included in those devices as well.

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TomTom navigating its way into iPhones

As a member of the directionally challenged community, I have been much enamored with having a device that knows where I am and where I’m going even when I don’t.

Even as other GPS navigation apps have launched — among them are AT&T’s Navigator (free download, $9.99 monthly) and Sygic’s Mobile Maps ($79.99 for North America) — many iPhone owners have been atwitter about the advent of a TomTom navigational iPhone app, announced at WWDC in San Francisco on June 8.

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Need directions? Don’t even ask

Cellphone manufacturers have long offered global positioning systems on their small-screen devices.

The question is: Why?

As anyone who has ever used the shady feature will attest, it was a waste of time and effort. They were clunky, slow, imprecise and, in short, sucky.

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Japan to try GPS phones to prevent pandemics

Just recently, Softbank Mobile, Japan’s biggest cell phone carrier, signed a deal with Aoyama Gakuin University to provide iPhone 3Gs to 1,000 students to keep tabs of their attendance via the phone’s Global Positioning System. The company now has a plan to equip the same amount of elementary-school students with GPS phones.

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Pharos Announces New Unlocked GPS Smartphone

LAS VEGAS – Pharos on Tuesday at CES 2009 announced the company’s latest unlocked GPS smartphone, the Traveler 137. The Windows Mobile Professional phone is distinguished by a large 3.5-inch, 800×480 touch screen and support for both AT&T and T-Mobile’s high-speed 3G networks.

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GPS phones by Garmin Asus

The newly-formed phone maker finally let us get our hands on the Garmin-Asus Nuvifone G60 and the new, Windows Mobile, Nuvifone M20. Was it worth the wait?

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Asustek, Garmin partner to make GPS phones

TAIPEI, Feb 4 (Reuters) - Taiwan’s Asustek (2357.TW), pioneer of the low-cost netbook PC, said on Wednesday it will partner with positioning device specialist Garmin (GRMN.O) to develop a new line of location-enabled smartphones.
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