CTIA Wireless Show - More GPS Navigation on Phones

The CTIA wireless show opens in Las Vegas tomorrow, and it is already spawning news of new handsets, new applications and appears to be a hotbed of innovation for all things wireless. Now, more than ever there is a strong current of momentum behind wireless phone GPS navigation.

• Garmin is launching the Nuvifone later this year; no doubt about it this thing navigates.
• The iPhone is finally getting better support for turn by turn directions after a long time on the market without that support
• Phones with navigation applications certainly aren't new, with TeleNav offering the capability on numerous phones, and companies like Verizon offering the application for a small fee per month directly from them.

For me, more than anything, it's the ability to have a larger format screen that makes it viable, and the recent onslaught of smartphones, the iPhone included, that offer some reasonable amount of real estate to see the map and directions seem to be making that vision of navigation on a phone a viable reality.

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