Last time we mentioned location-based social network Loopt, they’d just released a 3G iPhone app in partnership with Yelp. Now the mobile startup, which helps you locate your friends and nearby points of interest, has announced something even bigger.
One of the biggest issues currently in scaling a network such as Loopt’s is to get buy-in [...]
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An iPhone 2.1 software update is on its way, providing a number of fixes for the buggy iPhone 2.0 software released in conjunction with the 3G iPhone. Of interest is an upgrade to the iPhone’s GPS that enables the phone to not only find your current location, but also determine your velocity and direction. Could [...]
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HTC’s popular Touch Diamond, a GPS-enabled handset, will get an exclusive edition of GPS navigation software maker ALK’s CoPilot Live 7 mapping software across the pond in Europe. It comes on DVD, and simply transfers from your PC to the Touch Diamond. It then automatically recognizes the handset’s built-in GPS receiver. A true “plug and [...]
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Early in 2009 Sony’s Playstation Portable (PSP) will be getting a GPS add-on according to PSP senior marketing manager John Koller, not quite the August release date we heard about back in May. While this is an interesting development in and of itself, the real potential for innovation here comes with the possibility of all [...]
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Garmin continues to dominate the North American PND market with a 55% market share, well ahead of TomTom’s 18%, Magellan’s 13%, Navigon’s 4% and Mio’s 3% in the 2nd quarter of 2008. Garmin has widened its gap significantly since the first quarter when it only had a 23% gap on TomTom, now a full 37%. [...]
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The good folks from Engadget have dug up some dirt on Fujitsu’s Lifebook U2010, a GPS-enabled UMPC based on Intel’s Atom chip. The new specification info was found on a Vietnamese forum and is fairly impressive. Not only does the U2010 apparently run on an Atom CPU at 1.6 or 1.8 GHz, but it also [...]
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Samsung’s GPS-enabled i740 has been officially released in the Ukraine minus increasingly important 3G connectivity. Features include:
Tri-band GSM 900/1800/1900 connectivity
Windows Mobile 6.1 OS
3.2 megapixel camera with autofocus
2.8? 320×240 QVGA, 262K color TFT display
FM Radio
GPS Navigation
USB 2. and Bluetooth A2DP
150 MB of user memory
microSD memory card slot
1500 mAh battery
Dimensions: 107×59×13.9 mm
Lucky Ukrainians should expect to pay [...]
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This summer it’s a safe bet to say that you’re spending a fair amount of time on the road, whether in your car or on foot, and no matter how you move comScore reports that there is a good chance you’ve used mobile maps to find out where you are and where you’re going. In [...]
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Always a country to innovate and try something new, Japan is working on putting a robot between you and your car navigation system. More specifically, Japan-based NEC Corp. demonstrated PaPeRo, a human machine interface, at AT International 2008 and PaPeRo just happens to be that robotic go-between. PaPeRo is a home robot used as a [...]
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Korea-based Mercury’s MD5000 in-dash navigator is nothing less than impressive. Not only is it packed with high-end features but it features support for KT WiBro wireless broadband which enables greater-than-HSDPA-speeds when your vehicle is traveling at speeds up to 120km/h. As for those high-end features, they include:
Monahan 624 Mhz processor
LG DMB chipset
PIP chipset
Mappy United software [...]
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28. July 2008
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