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News: UK Mobile Device Navigation Acceptance Growing

Telmap GPSResearch firm Strategy Analytics say that acceptance of mobile device-based navigation applications is growing among consumers in the UK.

According to their report, "UK Navigation: Mobile Devices Can Compete With PNDs", as touchscreen-enabled mobile devices become common, more of us will be drawn to mobile devices for their GPS navigation.

Senior Analyst for Strategy Analytics, Chris Schreiner, says "Research shows that navigation services on mobile devices can compete with personal navigation devices (PNDs), provided that they are optimally designed. All participants who evaluated Telmap Navigator preferred it to the TomTom GO 920 and Garmin nüvi 710."

However, the two main factors reported as holding back the speedier adoption of mobile device-based navigation solutions are the display size and traditional 12 key keypads.

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Posted on Thursday, January 08 @ 19:38:27 UTC by Rob Brady

 
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