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Sirf’s Mini GPS Chips Designed For Mobile Phones

Feb 7, 2006 gps navigation, gps software

In a bid to bring portable navigation to the cellular phone segment, Sirf Technologies launched on Tuesday two tiny power-efficient chipsets designed to integrate GPS capability and wireless connectivity into mobile handsets.

The company will showcase several of its new technologies next week at the 3GSM World Congress in Barcelona, Spain.

“All indications are that 2006 will be a big year for these types of devices because price points are becoming consumer-affordable,” said Kanwar Chadha, founder and vice president of marketing for Sirf.

“Over the past few years GPS has started to hit the mainstream market – in the last year overall, we and our competitors sold more GPS chipsets than were sold in the previous five years,” Chadha said… read

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