Another week has already flown by in 2009 and the excitement continues. Here’s the top 10 posts on GPSObsessed for week number three:
And in the number ten spot…
Posimotion makes GPS Wi-Fi routers official: about time Posimotion! If you’ve bought a router and are having issues, check out the comments.
Buzzd busy: signs deal with MetroPCS, iPhone and Blackberry apps coming soon: location-based city guide and social network has signed a deal to get on MetroPCS handsets and have native iPhone and Blackberry apps in the pipeline.
Have a mobile startup idea? Head to Boston: for the last half of 2008, venture capitalists have been telling their investments to buckle down and tighten up. Apparently VC dollars are drying up with the ongoing economic strife. Except in Boston, it appears, where $565 million was invest in local mobile startups.
Is this the HTC Hero, aka Dream 2, aka G2…on video?: it’s still up in the air whether or not this video is a fake. Judge for yourself.
Google Earth brings 14 gigapixel famous paintings to your eyes: a really cool Google Earth project that shows just how talented some of the greatest painters of all time were.
GPS data can measure the amount of water in soil: report: who knew that GPS signals could reveal so much beyond location?
Bitstream mobile Bolt browser looks ultra-fast: it’s still in private beta, so you’ll have to get yourself an invite, but if you’ve got a J2ME phone (most of them), definitely give Bolt a go.
ASUS S121 netbook specs feature a 512 GB SSD: if you can fill the drive up on this ASUS netbook, well…wow!
Massive layoffs coming to Motorola’s handset division as early as this week, will focus exclusively on Android handsets: I haven’t got any official numbers yet but Motorola will cut a large part of its handset division as it moves to focus on Android handsets.
And in the top spot for the third week of 2009…
Archos 10 nothing but a rebranded Hasee netbook with a crappy battery: despite having all the usual netbook specs, the Intel Atom-powered Archos 10 has no GPS and only manages a 3-cell battery which doesn’t bode too well for its battery life.
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