Headlines - GPS showdown looming between TomTom and Nokia

[HEXUS]

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[Lee H]

At the front of Goddijn’s mind will be the fact that Nokia has agreed a deal to acquire Navteq, the other leading global map maker.

Is this because Nokia has decided that they are going to put GPS chips in more of their handsets? At first I thought GPS in a phone would be a bit of a gimmick, but after actually using 1 first-hand for a while (Garmin XT for the N95) I can say that it is a good additon to have with the phone and has come in useful many times.

Next I feel we'll see GPS location embedded in the snap-shots we take on our future handsets which some people will scream "invasion of privacy" at, but this would be great to see where abouts all the cracking sunset shots were taken.

[Nikumba]

Next I feel we'll see GPS location embedded in the snap-shots we take on our future handsets which some people will scream "invasion of privacy" at, but this would be great to see where abouts all the cracking sunset shots were taken.

This is here now, most HTC windows mobile devices with intergrated GPS can be set so the exif data will contain the GPS coords of where the photo was taken, I belive some of the Nikon and Canon high end SLR can do somthing similar.

Kimbie