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Nokia starts global positioning service

Posted by gasusan2005 on July 19, 2007 – 5:47 am
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nokia_connecting_people Nokia launched a service today which it said would cut the time a GPS-enabled cellphone takes to pinpoint its whereabouts, opening new opportunities for location-based online services. Nokia hopes the service, available for users of its flagship N95 phones, will cut the startup time to one minute, from up to three minutes currently. The slowness has so far hampered takeup of cellphone navigation.

Handset makers see GPS-based navigation as one of the next big value-adding offerings and even at this early stage.

While most assisted-GPS technologies use mobile carriers cellsites to find locations faster, Nokia’s new service bypasses operator networks, using data from SIM card and new software which helps the phone to catch satellite signals.

GPS chips use satellites orbiting the earth to determine the exact position of the user. They are found in car navigation systems, which have surged in popularity in recent years, and the technology is now making the jump to mobile phones.

While a few years ago personal navigation device makers like Dutch TomTom shrugged off possible rivalry from the handset industry, they have now acknowledged the potential risk to their business

Source: Reuters

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