Cell Phone Navigation: It’s Ten 0’Clock: Do You Know What Time It Is?:


location based services

"Cell Phone Navigation: It’s Ten 0’Clock: Do You Know What Time It Is?

Now Nokia thinks of itself as a patron of discovery, a sort of Christopher Columbus if you will, embarking on a new and hostile territory that may or may not end up being a flat surface. If their determination to transform cell phones into self-contained navigational devices succeeds, no one will ever be able to avoid telling the truth when asked, “Where are you calling from?”

So, if you are planning to break a few commandments, stay away from this apparatus that the number one phone maker in the world guarantees will integrate global positioning system technology (GPS) and location-based service into its cell phone handsets.

Nokia entered a licensing arrangement with Trimble, a positioning applications company that provides laser and optical location technologies to the military and agricultural and mining companies. It is hoped the new arrangement will expand Trimble’s customer base into the consumer market. According to Juniper Research, it is estimated that the overall demand for mobile location-based services will grow from less than one billion in 2005 to more than 8 billion in 2010. For Nokia, this "