U.S. GPS technology market research: opened GPS technology patents and the veil
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Figure 7 (U.S. Patent and Trademark Office GPS technology categories) shows the GPS coverage area in the past year the major categories. Can be found at www.uspto.gov find other class definitions.
Innovation Trends
Portable Navigation System (PND) occupy the consumer market share is most of the GPS. Consumer electronics has evolved over time, it never stays too long in a situation. With the iPhone 3G smart phone integrated into the GPS, and its open development platform in general and the application of the introduction of shop experience, Apple has helped advance the use of smart phones, a new class of such a location-based services. Google Android platform, there is (now T-Mobile G1 on the use of), Blackberry Storm, and attended the Palm Pre race, while also promoting a GPS-smartphone market prosperity.
Professional electronics industry analyst firm ABI Research released a report that in 2009 introduced support for GPS-phone sales will reach 240 million worldwide. The company forecasts, GPS will become a standard feature, and "location awareness" will become synonymous with smart devices.
Apple's new operating system in its 3.0 release of the GPS for the iPhone3G with the operating system software major upgrade and improvement. In OS 3.0, Apple allows developers to locate their core function as the point-by-feature basis. Currently, in addition to a situation, but by the navigation application has been missing. One obstacle is that due to licensing restrictions, developers have been unable to feature for Google Maps by the navigation application.
Research in Motion (RIM) launched its smart phone touch screen in the field of competitors - BlackBerry Storm. Storm's large screen makes it more business-oriented than its (business-like) predecessors (BlackBerry) is more |
Last data update: 10.12.2011