PUBLIC MARKS from kzoo with tag "gps enabled"

Nokia has once again proved that the only way to tame the ever-wandering minds of consumers is to feed them with something that they lack in their current techno-diet.

We hate getting lost on the road (especially when we have a GPS-phone by our side), and we love anything free.

With location-based services (LBS) like navigation and location-aware social networks steadily gaining momentum, ABI Research is predicting more than 550 million GPS-enabled handsets will ship by 2012.

Back in February we saw Moto Smart Rider passing the FCC hurdle, and now, almost two months later it s here. Of course, it was announced at the CTIA where we expected much more from America s struggling handset makers, but quot;it is what it is, quot; as they say.

It’s a fact that mobile phones with built-in GPS receivers will sooner or later kill the pure personal navigation devices. After all, who would want a device which only does a single task in the era of convergence. That being said, the latest rumor we have involves two navigation giants, Garmin and TomTom, which are apparently working to bring their own GPS-enabled phone to the market in the not-that-distant future.