Nokia has found a way to increase the GPS speed in its GPS-enabled phones. The company has started an innovative service on the 19th that they suppose would reduce the time that a GPS-featured cell phone requires to locate its position. This will open a door of opportunities for web services based on location.
Nokia expects that the new service will help its N95 users to reduce the locating time from the currently required three minutes to one minute. This long delay in the transmission has till now impeded the take up of mobile phone navigation.
Ralph Eric Kunz, chief of Nokia’s mapping operations and navigation has stated in an interview that a delay would be consistently less than a minute in most of the countries.
GPS has been an early implementation in the mobile phones and even at this infant stage, it is seen by some cell phone makers as one of the future big value-adding features.
It has been predicted by Berg Insight, an analysis firm that the yearly shipments of handset-integrated personal GPS devices will arrive at 12 million in Europe and the U.S by the time it reaches 2009, in contrast to the 1 million that were shipped in 2005.
- From Redherring.
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