The PocketGPSWorld.com CeBIT 2008 report
Date: Wednesday, March 12 @ 12:28:44 UTC
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CeBIT 2008 report Last week saw the start of CeBIT 2008, billed as "the world's largest trade fair showcasing digital IT and telecommunications solutions for home and work environments".

Last year the show was a little disappointing with the main interest being provided by NavNGo with iGO v8 and a number of low profile stands and an absence of TomTom consumer products. This year was very different. The big stands were back, GPS was in a new and bigger hall. All the main players were there with the exception of Destinator, and it was like a fresh breath had been put back into the show.

We had plenty of new product announcements, from TomTom and Garmin through to Mio-Navman. Looking around the stands the big news once again was NavNGO. iGO 8 software seemed to be the navigation engine for a lot of new devices, including a fully functional "proof of concept" on an iPhone and iPod Touch (check below for video links). The big news though was the split between Mio and NavNGo with Mio now installing the Navman software. Surprisingly the split has been initiated by NavNGo rather than Mio-Navman.

If I had any doubts about the viability of CeBIT as one of the World's foremost tradeshows these were dispelled last week. CeBIT is well and truely on the World map... (sorry for that).

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