Two Hundred Million A-GPS Enabled Cellphones

location based services

Qualcomm has announced that a total of more than 200 million mobile handsets worldwide have shipped featuring the Company's gpsOne Assisted-GPS technology. gpsOne technology supports a wide range of location services that include a variety of consumer, business and personal safety applications. These location services are made possible by the ubiquitous and accurate positioning of the gpsOne solution, the most widely deployed GPS-based location technology in the world.
"More than 200 million GPS-enabled handsets have shipped over the past few years, demonstrating that consumers are increasingly demanding location services on the wireless device that most carry with them all the time," said Rob Rovetta, senior director of product management for Qualcomm CDMA Technologies. "Qualcomm's gpsOne technology puts high-performance GPS into handsets, making possible a wide variety of services that make day-to-day activities simpler, safer or more fun for the wireless user."
"We are seeing that the ecosystem for location services is now largely established, which -- combined with the ever-growing number of GPS-enabled handsets -- will drive location services to being a mainstream cellular services component and revenue source," said Allyn Hall, director of wireless research for In-Stat. "The number of GPS-enabled chipsets shipping in handsets is orders of magnitude larger than the number of chipsets being shipped in personal navigation devices, and the difference will only grow over the next few years."