TeleNav today announced the availability of TeleNav’s GPS Navigator, a Java-based GPS navigation application that offers visual and audible, turn-by-turn driving directions and mapping, on the BlackBerry 7100i from Research In Motion (RIM).
TeleNav GPS Navigator first launched on the BlackBerry 7520(TM) in May 2005 as the first GPS navigation application available on the BlackBerry(R) platform. TeleNav, which is similar to the in-car GPS navigation systems found in luxury vehicles, displays maps, graphical driving cues, speed and direction, and provides audible turn-by-turn directions to help drivers get to their desired locations.

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NordNav today announced the full commercial release of its NordNav E5000 embedded software receivers for Mobile GPS Positioning at the 3GSM World Congress in Barcelona, Spain.
NordNav’s E5000 Mobile Solution can be easily embedded into most portable processors and reference design platforms including ARM9, Texas Instruments OMAP and Intel XSCALE. By taking advantage of existing processing power, NordNav’s solution saves space and requires substantially smaller footprint in the host device. The highly effective acquisition engine also provides faster time to first fix than the typical hardware GPS receiver, resulting in a greatly enhanced user experience.

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Nokia (today underlined its effort in making location based services available to a broad consumer base with the announcement of the Nokia GPS Module LD-3W, which is compatible with a wide selection of Nokia’s Bluetooth enabled handsets. By cooperating with several partners, Nokia provides comfortable and affordable navigation solutions that are now available for many of Nokia’s mid-range handsets.
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E-TEN G500 is the perfect combination of wireless technology and style.
It’s a Pocket PC with Windows Mobile 5, Gsm phone and fully integrated GPS capabilities. The G500′s embedded RoyalTek GPS module, featuring the SiRFStar III high sensitivity chipset and an innovative internal antenna design, means that PDA or phone owners who also regularly need to access GPS services, no longer have to carry additional accessories or even a separate GPS device when they travel. No other product makes it as easy or as convenient as the G500 to have the latest satellite navigation technology always on hand.

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SiRF Technology today unveiled an extremely small multimode A-GPS chip, the GSCi-5000, optimized to address the space and cost constraints of cellular handsets.
"In the mobile arena today, ‘thin is in’; the ultra-slender phones are jumping off the retail shelves. GSCi-5000′s small foot print makes it ideal for these applications, and its low cost GPS subsystem implementation will help us expand our multimode AGPS penetration into the mid-range segment of the market," according to Kanwar Chadha, founder and vice president of marketing for SiRF. "Supported by the expertise of SiRF’s global organization, we are also pleased that last year’s acquisition of Motorola’s GPS division has led to the development of this innovative offering."

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SiRF Technology today debuted the SiRFstarIII-LT, the most power-efficient and the smallest manifestation yet of its flagship SiRFstarIII architecture, for a wide range of GPS enabled consumer mobile devices.
"SiRFstarIII is becoming the architecture of choice for mobile consumer navigation devices, setting new performance standards and getting rave reviews for our customers’ devices," according to Kanwar Chadha, founder and vice president of marketing for SiRF. "Utilizing innovative system, silicon and software technologies, we are now significantly raising the bar for power efficiency to enable longer battery life without compromising the flagship SiRFstarIII performance."

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