QUALCOMM Integrates GPS in EVDO Chips |
| Monday, 18 July 2005 | |
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QUALCOMM's gpsOne(R) Enhanced Navigation Software Further Improves Accuracy and Reduces Cost for Automotive and Pedestrian Navigation in the Wireless Phone - Integrated Solution Eliminates Need for Additional GPS Chips and Enables Mass Market - SAN DIEGO, July 18 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- QUALCOMM Incorporated (Nasdaq: QCOM - News), pioneer and world leader of Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) digital wireless technology, today announced the industry's first enhanced navigation solution fully integrated in wireless 3G modems. This feature provides higher accuracy, turn by turn map positioning for automotive and personal navigation applications in wireless handsets, enabling a better user experience and exciting new navigation applications for the consumer and enterprise markets. This enhanced software will be available on QUALCOMM's market-leading gpsOne� solution for use with select Mobile Station Modem(TM) (MSM(TM)) chipsets for both CDMA2000� and WCDMA (UMTS) networks. "Handsets using the gpsOne enhanced navigation software enable operators to meet the increasing demand for mass-market navigation services and quickly capitalize on the lucrative enterprise navigation and fleet management markets," said Dr. Sanjay K. Jha, president of QUALCOMM CDMA Technologies. "Our integrated software significantly decreases the development costs and time to market associated with providing cost-effective consumer navigation -- positioning gpsOne-based handsets as the catalyst for widespread wireless automotive and personal navigation." The enhanced navigation software combined with the integrated gpsOne solution will:
When GPSone is available in PC Data cards and EVDO capable phones, it will finally open up the door for some very cool GPS enable uses. Click here for a demo. |
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