SlashPhone » A-GPS http://www.slashphone.com Worldwide mobile phone news, reviews and wireless innovations Mon, 13 Feb 2012 22:45:13 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Nokia and ARC Transistance to deliver Real Time Traffic Reports to mobiles http://www.slashphone.com/nokia-and-arc-transistance-to-deliver-real-time-traffic-reports-to-mobiles-29348 http://www.slashphone.com/nokia-and-arc-transistance-to-deliver-real-time-traffic-reports-to-mobiles-29348#comments Tue, 29 Apr 2008 14:21:29 +0000 Kim Poh Liaw http://www.slashphone.com/?p=348 Nokia and ARC Transistance will provide Real Time Traffic Information to users of Nokia mobile devices. Nokia will offer the service as a premium offering in Nokia Maps 2.0 and in future versions of Nokia Maps. When Nokia Maps receives the road updates from ARC Transistance, the application can dynamicly re-route during navigation and provide a faster route.

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ARC Transistance Traffic Information services aggregate the real time road and traffic conditions of 16 countries in Europe, and growing. The leading navigation industry players also use the ARC Transistance Traffic Information services to enhance the routing guidance and navigation experience of their customers.

]]> http://www.slashphone.com/nokia-and-arc-transistance-to-deliver-real-time-traffic-reports-to-mobiles-29348/feed 1 Texas Instruments Introduces Single Chip A-GPS, Bluetooth and FM Radio http://www.slashphone.com/texas-instruments-introduces-single-chip-a-gps-bluetooth-and-fm-radio-0389 http://www.slashphone.com/texas-instruments-introduces-single-chip-a-gps-bluetooth-and-fm-radio-0389#comments Fri, 04 Apr 2008 02:49:58 +0000 Kim Poh Liaw http://www.slashphone.com/texas-instruments-introduces-single-chip-a-gps-bluetooth-and-fm-radio-0389 Texas Instruments announced its NaviLink 6.0 (NL5500) solution, a single chip solution that combines assisted global positioning satellite (A-GPS), Bluetooth 2.1 and ultra FM receive/transmit capabilities.

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Built on TI’s DRPTM single-chip technology at 65 nanometer (nm), the NaviLink 6.0 enables manufacturers to introducehigh-performance handsets with GPS capabilities, bluetooth, while also transmitting an MP3 file to the car radio using the FM transmit capability.

“We see a strong correlation between the demand for including the combination of GPS and Bluetooth functionality, with GPS attach rates reaching 30 percent and Bluetooth penetration approaching 70 percent by 2011,” said Patrick Connolly, senior GPS analyst at IMS Research. “Accordingly, we believe that combo devices that integrate both technologies will play a major part in the uptake of GPS in the cellular market over the next four years – reducing cost, size and power consumption, while also maintaining performance.”

Handsets with NaviLink 6.0 are expected to be on the market by the second half of 2009.

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