NYTimes on GPS Drawing.
Chumby licensing its software to other appliances. And EETimes shows what is under its hood.
Twitter developing location-based API.
Nokia releasing a new Linux-based Internet tablet, the N900.
Latest Wired includes a Location Ad for the N97 by Nokia (photo) and an article by Steven Levy showing how the Pre evolves what was brought in with the iPhone.
Symbian announced support for touch UI coding for its S60 platform. What about multi-touch?
Symbian also announced support for SQLite and Location Based services through its API’s.
NYTimes articles on Google Earth. Via GoogleLatLong.
Flickr now with geotagged videos.
Microsoft announces Clearflow service at maps.live.com for smart traffic information.
Simba: GPS for iPhone and OS 2.0 will include app for “live location tracking”.
New SDK drop today, includes a tutorial that shows how to develop your first app using Interface Builder.
If you want to check a good tutorial on Object Modeling that explains IB on a MVC context (with Core Data behind the Model Framework) check these links: Core Data Programming Guide and Cocoa Design Patterns.
And may take you for a ride with them. The new phones are including geotagging software (N78) and true + assisted GPS, plus the upload/sharing site Ovi acquired with Twango and to make it all possible providing their own A-GPS backbone implementation.
By providing its own infrastructure for location data, applications running on Nokia phones can obtain accurate location data anywhere in the World, even US without depending on the carriers benevolence to get data from an actual device.
Meanwhile, Motorola joins a technical forum to push the Enhanched GPS standard from Cambridge, UK based educational research & private groups collaboration effort.
Recent work with a research lab from Berkeley, CA GPS-equipped Nokia phones were used to identify traffic patterns using phones as sensors.
The real problem about mobile implementation here is that US lacks and lags behind other countries and cultures that are currently leading the race. Japan has gadgets that Americans can only dream about.
Europeans don’t need to dream so much as that Nokia is feeding them with enough quality models. Like the N96 with the new Maps 2.0 for pedestrians and enough third party Symbian-developed software.
Even South America has more choices, models, services and opportunities than north-americans.
By holding to this piece of gold, the location data of a device; the carriers hold the whole location-based service industry from benefiting and expanding. It is crazyness.
Without enough critical mass to get location services started and having customers only from their own service to talk to, companies ahead of its times like Helio burn through more cash than this bubble is willing to spend.
Location data from devices (and application) should be made available for free. Be it CDMA or GSM.
But ARM-based Android phones that Google will give away at night parties flying out of Ames will, right? Them you have all sort of arrangements for that piece of gold that location became.
Unless Microsoft decides to crash the party to ship their own Java-based models now that Danger IP is theirs.
Or maybe the new beautiful iPhone SDK generated apps will make everyone happy until the Elections.
Motorola may feed into the whole Linux Mobile movement and hopefully will. And Nokia is also playing its card despite its reliance on Symbian. Trolltech wasn’t bought for show only. Plus, Nokia thanks to this purchase becomes a member of LiMo, the Linux Mobile Foundation.
Meanwhile, Nokia by offering the whole solution with real, useful devices and with infrastructure and software + map data to back it up will keep going with its dominance for some good years ahead.
At least, they (and you) know what business they are in.
Garmin ups the hand, TomTom covers it and TeleAtlas accepts the bid.
Darpa driverless cars have another round (at EETimes, GPSWorld),
Gizmondo shows Dash mashups, your upcoming mobile tv taking shape in a new gadgetized distraction.
EETimes shows what is the Nokia N95 made of including its Texas’ NaviLink GPS5300 chipset. True one then, with Assisted-GPS software based support.
At CTIA 2007 Qualcomm announced Gobi “a global mobile Internet hardware and software combination for notebooks […] with embedded GPS capabilities”.
Wow, take this Google…
TomTom already got TeleNav, so what now?
N95 is looking more and more attractive these days.
PR at AP.
Rumors of a true GPS in the iPhone fading out. Most probably Bluetooth GPS support and some cool apps to go with it. Where it started and PocketPicks in UK. Via Tech Digest
From jkOnTheRun what Nokia N800 looks like, YouTube has a good 13 mins “open-the-box” experience. The N800 NavKit includes the LD-3W Bluetooth GPS receiver. The video shows how easy it picks a signal, even under a roof.
Also Via PocketPicks: New entry from HTC in UK, very iPhonish. Via ItWorld.
Solsie and a video on the Future of the phone from CNET.
Garmin Zuno at GPSLodge.
Germany looking at Public Funds for Galileo.
MIT WatchMe project “a platform for mobile communication and awareness” (photo), via PCMag.
PR Dept
SirfDirect: Dead Reckoning or how to keep track of things while no signal is available. SirfDirect “couples the SiRF star III chipset with acceleration sensors to tell where it’s going when GPS signals are blocked”. At GpsLodge, GpsPassion, LBSZone and Navigadget.
EETimes interviewed surprised executives from Motorola and Nokia regarding Sun’s latest move on its all Java mobile platform. Interesting times.
Are Brits prone to follow gadgets blindly? Perhaps because lots of them are now so much into navigation with satnav’s.
In fact, it seems that these gadgets are dropping the resale price of used cars.
But if you are still looking for a deal, check this list of under $200 models.
SFGate had an interesting article on the time it takes for updates to trickle down into these devices.
Here a video with some of TomTom’s history.
Phones
Helio Ocean is now available.
Nokia promoting a Road To China.
IAC (Ask Mobile owner) announces “Ask Mobile GPS”. For Sprint customers using WaveMarket LBS technology.
And this time Sprint got it right.
Google Maps Mobile in UK (Nokia N95) Video on Reuters, article by The Register. It includes local search, UK-based and Vodafone phones will have it preloaded.
Great post by Dr Andrew Hudson-Smith at Digital Urban about using the N95, the new object of desire from Nokia with a freely available geotagger and photo uploader called ShoZu.
ShoZu in fact supports a lot of models so you don’t need to through away your current one just yet.
The post explains in great detail how to get up and running with the product.
Via OgleEarth.