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Filed under: Software , Others SiRF learned this lesson almost two years ago, and now Qualcomm's picking up on the same thing: WiFi-based positioning seems to work pretty damned well, all things considered. The company, which offers its gpsOne platform to handset manufacturers for integrating AGPS...
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Filed under: Handsets , Software , HTC , Verizon Wireless , Windows Mobile , EV-DO , CDMA Still clutching your trusty XV6900 , are you? Not heading out in a few hours to secure yourself a Storm ? If you're the mettlesome type, you can surf on over to PhoneNews and suck down the latest and greatest...
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11-20-2008
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Filed under: Windows Mobile, EV-DO, Verizon Wireless, CDMA, Handsets, HTC, GPS, Software, ev-do rev a, Ev-doRevA, touch, EV-DO Rev. A, Ev-doRev.A, htc touch, HtcTouch, windows mobile 6.1, WindowsMobile6.1, xv6900
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Filed under: Messaging , Multimedia , Software , Nokia , Symbian If your crew is just too occupied to keep tabs on your every move via Qik , you should probably give Friend View a spin. Fresh out of the Nokia Beta Labs comes this application, which queues up your location and then enables you to socially...
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11-06-2008
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Filed under: Beta, Nokia, Video, Symbian, Multimedia, s60, GPS, Software, Messaging, Social Networking, location, SocialNetworking, avatar, friend view, FriendView, micro-blogging
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Filed under: Handsets , Software , Others Google Maps for mobile just stepped up in the feature department with Google's inclusion of Street View in its newest version. In case you've been hiding under a rock -- or live in almost any other country aside from the US -- Street View offers up a...
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Filed under: Software , ATT , GSM , EDGE , Apple , OS X Yeah, so there's still lots of confusion on whether bona fide turn-by-turn GPS software will ever arrive on the iPhone 3G (though signs are pointing to " yes "), but considering that it's not there now, Autoblog took Apple's...
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Filed under: Apple, iPhone, EDGE, GSM, GPS, ATT, Software, Google Maps, nav, navigation, OS X, GoogleMaps, 3gIphone, 3g iphone, mapping, Garmin, iphone 3g, Iphone3g, navi
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Filed under: Software , Apple As always, Apple is busy at the patent office this week, with two recently uncovered filings to make life just a little bit easier for Mr. Joe Person Man. The first of these is a system to track how far away you are from a cell tower, and to warn you via your phone when...
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Filed under: Software , Nokia , Symbian After a pleasingly brief public beta , Nokia's glazing its Maps 2.0 navigation app with a thick coating of gold and sending it off into a waiting world of S60-toting fiends to fend for itself. The new version underpins the GPS receivers in Nokia's 2008...
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Filed under: Software , RIM As great as on-device navigation can be, the monthly fee can be really hard to swallow, especially considering that dedicated nav units offer all the functionality (or the most important parts, anyway) free of ongoing charges. Granted, services like TeleNav offer ongoing map...
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Filed under: Software , Android Among the hopefuls for Google's Android Developer Challenge (which ended yesterday, by the way, so put down your pencils and turn in your papers) is this little gem, Enkin. Put simply, the navigation app's ace card is its "live mode," which combines a...
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Filed under: Games , Software , Nokia , Symbian Truth be told, we could sort of see this one coming -- after all, why wouldn't N-Gage developers seek to use a handset's built-in functions to enhance gameplay? Nevertheless, the folks at Nok Nok were able to pick the brain of Will Shen, N-Gage...
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Filed under: Software , Nokia , Symbian Though the refresh late last year was a welcome bonus, Nokia's Maps app that gets bundled with many of its S60 devices still lags Google Maps for Mobile in several key areas -- real-time traffic and satellite view, just to name a couple. Great news, though...
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02-09-2008
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Filed under: Nokia, Symbian, GPS, Software, nav, navigation, maps, Nokia Maps, NokiaMaps, Maps2.0, maps 2.0
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Filed under: Handsets , Software , HTC , Alltel , Sprint , Verizon Wireless , Bell Mobility , Telus Mobility , Windows Mobile , EV-DO , CDMA The clever souls at PhoneNews seem to have sorted how to get gpsOne -- this technology uses both satellite and your provider's network to determine location...
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02-01-2008
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Filed under: Windows Mobile, EV-DO, Verizon Wireless, CDMA, Handsets, Sprint, HTC, Alltel, titan, xv6800, GPS, Software, Bell Mobility, Telus Mobility, telus, bell, ROM, p4000, mogul, Htc6800, htc 6800