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Move Over GPS, Here Comes the Smartphone
- credo 17y agoTomTom seems to be taking the safer approach (with an iPhone app etc.) while Garmin seems to be taking a riskier approach (by adding cell phone functionality to their navigation device). It will be interesting to see which approach does better or if both approaches fail.
- RiderOfGiraffes 17y agoI found this article very confusing. GPS is being used in at least three different ways: a separate device that uses the GPS to help you navigate, the function in your phone that uses the Global Positioning System to navigate, and the Global Positioning System. To someone who doesn't refer to the separate device as a GPS, but calls it a SatNav, reading this was an exercise in increasing frustration, each time having to stop and unpick the meaning of the acronym. Hacker lesson to learn: Sometimes when you're explaining things you'll use the same term in different contexts to mean different things. Sometimes your listener will be unfamiliar with the nuances of the different contexts, hear the same word, and get confused. I think that lost me the potential for funding in one pitch I did. So, the real question, do these "Smart Phones" that they're talking about have a GPS chipset that lets them find their position using the GPS satellites, or are they using cell-phone-based location awareness?