Nokia working on indoor GPS system

Nokia working on indoor GPS system

Nokia has been working on a method of indoor GPS positioning that should make it easier to navigate a new office building or a sprawling shopping mall.

Nokia is already trialling the indoor GPS service in 40 buildings within its headquarters in Espoo, Finland. A commercial trial will launch later this year at a shopping mall in Helsinki.

The application could be available through Nokia’s public Beta Labs site later this year.

Nokia 6210 Navigator GPS-enabled Phone

Nokia 6210 Navigator GPS-enabled Phone

Nokia 6210 Navigator will be released in the middle of this summer. It was first announced in February, during MWC 2008.

Measuring 103 x 49 x 14.9 millimeters and weighing 117 grams, Nokia 6210 Navigator packs a 2.4 inch display with 16 million colors and 240 x 320 pixels, quad-band GSM, dual-band UMTS and dual-band HSDPA connectivity, Nokia Maps 2.0, built-in accelerometer, geotagging, a 3.2 Megapixel camera with auto focus, flash and video, 120MB internal memory, microSD card support for up to 8GB, Media player, FM radio, Bluetooth 2.0, USB 2.0 and so on.

Nokia 6210 Navigator will cost about $465 with a free GPS navigation license for 6 months.
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Verizon XV6900 Touch - HTC Touch CDMA version

Verizon XV6900 Touch - HTC Touch CDMA version

The Verizon XV6900 Touch, CDMA version of the HTC Touch phone, has been announced recently. It runs on Windows Mobile 6 OS, and is powered by a TI OMAP 850 201 Mhz processor. This GPS-enabled smartphone features a 2.8-inch Touchscreen, a 2 Megapixel camera, 128MB ROM and 64MB RAM, a microSD card slot, WiFi, Bluetooth, EV-DO and so on.
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HTC Pharos GPS Smartphone

HTC Pharos GPS Smartphone

Leaked informations reveal that HTC Pharos (or P3470) will be released soon. It’s a GPS smartphone that you can afford, and features 2.8 inch QVGA screen, TouchFLO interface, 2 megapixel camera, 256 ROM and 128 RAM, built-in GPS (with the NMEA 0183 standard), Bluetooth 2.0. HTC Pharos is powered by Windows Mobile 6 Pro.

Asus P550 PDA Phone

Asus P550 PDA Phone

The Asus P550 PDA phone is powered by the Windows Mobile 6.0 Professional OS, and featrues an ultra-large 3.5-inch 65K-color 240×320 pixels LCD touchscreen, a 2-megapixel camera, a microSD memory card slot, Bluetooth, GPS navigation, WiFi 802.11b/g, tri-band GSM radio and WCDMA network.

This slim smartphone measures 121 x 70 x 16.5 mm and weighs 188g.

iPhone - locoGPS GPS module

iPhone - locoGPS GPS module

PartFoundry’s locoGPS module works with iPhone’s integrated Google Maps though an EDGE connection, may add the GPS functionality to the jailbreaked iPhone as well as the iPod Touch. The locoGPS is based on the SiRF Start III GPS chipset.

The locoGPS module will be available in February 2008. Video after the break:
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