gate5

location based services

smart2go™ is releasing a next generation software with new product features for mobile phones and personal navigation devices. Hardware manufacturers, operators and handset makers enjoy a highly sophisticated mapping and navigation solution offering seamless navigation across Europe and the Americas with breathtaking features such as house polygons, smart2go™ earth browsing and dynamic route guidance. All applications are extendable with more than 5,000 city guides, travel guides or services.


gate5 introduces smart2go™, an intelligent client solution for Symbian Series 60, Symbian Series 80 (Nokia communicator), UIQ, PocketPC, Palm and MS Smartphone. smart2go™ is available for both Europe and the US. Combined with a Bluetooth® GPS, smart2go™ delivers a fully equipped navigation kit for retail and distribution.


For Sony Europe gate5 produced a lifestyle guide for the Clié platform including downloadable (sync) content for major cities.Sony is a leading manufacturer of audio, video, communications, and information technology products for the consumer and professional markets. Its music, motion picture, television, computer entertainment, and online businesses make Sony one of the most comprehensive entertainment companies in the world.


With Falk, Fodor's and LonelyPlanet, gate5 created city guides for the pocketPC and for the SonyEricsson P800 platform including interactive mapping direct on the device.


For DaimlerChrysler gate5 designed a complex demonstration for the IAA in Frankfurt in 2003 aimed at the future of car navigation. It linked the newest DaimlerChrysler in-car navigation to a Web client allowing users to prepare routes from home or record routes driven for later use. It also included house polygons providing unique granularity in the city.


For Volkswagen gate5 built a prototype allowing drivers to see road signs ahead of time while travelling along a road.The Volkswagen Group is one of the world’s leading automobile manufacturers and the largest car maker in Europe. The Group sells its vehicles in more than 150 countries. Its goal is to offer attractive, safe and environmentally sound vehicles which are competitive on a tough market and which set world standards in their respective classes.


For Siemens gate5 built a multi-access Friend Finder application. It allowed users equipped with a Java phone to visualize the location of other users or to be notified when they entered the same "cell". At the same time users could see the location of other users on a Web map, depending on their access rights.


In 2000, gate5 built zoomland (AKA hellocopter) the first location-based social network portal. Each house in a city was transformed into an intelligent data recipient that could be accessed both through a Web browser and a WAP phone. For the first time gate5 introduced its award winning rendering technology allowing real-time map visualization. It was meant to support user-generated content such as personal news (i.e. location-based blogs), spontaneous and up-to-date ratings and micro-ads. Users were able to define channels, groups and read permissions and so develop their own networks. Zoomland reflects gate5's vision: to combine location, content and group dimensions together within one consistent application.