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Acer Liquid GPS Android Phone Hits Stores in UK, Nokia E72 Lands in U.S. Stores
Across the pond in Europe the much ballyhooed Acer Liquid smartphone has begun shipping. What’s notable about this handset is not the assisted-GPS or the fact that it has an Android OS (no, it’s not 2.0, but rather version 1.6, the so-called Donut), but the fact that it is one of the first smartphones built around Qualcomm’s Snapdragon mobile processor. Snapdragon is one of the latest processors for mobile applications that house multiple cores in one chip, including a CPU, GPS, and the cellular modem (no mean feat, if you no anything about electrical engineering, multiple radios, and the ensuing headaches).
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The Run-up to Nokia World 2009: A New GPS-Enabled Phone and a … Laptop? What?
The Espoo, Finland-based handset giant’s annual all-things-Nokia event — the aptly named Nokia World — takes place next week, so naturally there is going to be a slew of product announcements and news between now and then. We’ve already heard about the 5800 Navigation Edition, now we have the Nokia 5230, a relatively inexpensive touch-screen handset with assisted GPS, and Nokia’s first laptop — no, really — the Nokia Booklet 3G. The mini-laptop, as Nokia calls it, boasts 3G/HSPA for data access, as well as Wi-Fi, and assisted GPS with Nokia’s Ovi Maps and related services.
Nokia Repackages GPS-Enabled 5800 XpressMusic as the 5800 Navigation Edition
A sign of the times: Nokia announced today that it is going to bring out a European edition of its GPS-enabled Nokia 5800 XpressMusic that’s tailored for navigation: the aptly named 5800 Navigation Edition. The phone itself is identical to the original 5800 introduced in January, aside from a few cosmetic differences. The Navigation Edition, however, is bundled with a whiz-bang car kit and a lifetime license for Nokia’s Drive and Walk navigation software as well as Ovi Maps (for your specific region), both of which are already onboard.
GPS Enabled Handsets Galore: Nokia N900, Garmin Nuvifone, and Moto’s Androids, Oh My!
All sorts of GPS-enabled mobile phone news today — a plethora, if you will; indeed, it’s a veritable bonanza: rumors, rumors of rumors, facts, and innuendo. You name it, it’s out there in the blogosphere today (as usual), which I pick over like a crisp salad with a fork, picking out the black olives so you don’t have to. So here’s the highlights below.
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