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some details on Motonav and T805 (and T815)

Feb 17, 2007 bluetooth, gps navigation, motorola, phones

At 3GSM World Conference in Barcelona, Motorola presented its Motonav navigation solution for portable phones. It is consists of a Bluetooth GPS receiver (T805 and T815), and Motonav navigation software, and according to marketing, it also includes a memory card, mounting kits, and a charger.

A Bluetooth GPS receiver is nothing new, but the Motorola design’s is quite unique.

It uses a GPS SiRF III chip with A-GPS capabilities which allows the remote loading of ephemeris data. That means that your portable device will download the ephemeris data regarding each satellite and send them to GPS chip so that TTFF takes a lot shorter. In this case Motorola claims 5 to 8 seconds for the TTFF.

Both T805 and T815 has a power saving function which shuts down the device if no Bluetooth peripheral is connected. Another interesting feature is that the LEDs will also turn off to not distract the driver.

Like we mentioned before two versions will be available : Motonav T805 and Motonav T815.

Motonav T815 is compatible with Symbian S60 type SmartPhones and Windows Mobile SmartPhones. And soon it will also be compatible with Linux SmartPhones. With the T815 the maps are stored in SmartPhone on a memory card and route calculations are made by the mobile phone. The navigation software is provided by Destinator.

Motonav T805 is compatible with bluetooth mobile phones that are not using Symbian, Windows Mobile or Linux type opereating systems but still have Java. With the T805 the maps are stored on a server and route calculations are also made by the server. The navigation software is provided by Jentro.

In either case, the maps are provided by Navteq. The radar locations are provided and the update is done directly and free for life.

Motonav service provides traffic information with the Premium version, using the service v-traffic coming from Mediamobile, and this information is downloaded to your mobile device via Internet (GPRS, EDGE, 3G..).

A nice feature, Motonav has voice synthesis and allows pronounciation of street names, even on the Java version. This functionality is very practical and makes it possible to spend less time looking navigation screen.

Motonav services will also offer sending one’s GPS position by SMS, but it is necessary that the recipient also has Motonav. Also a service that will allow uploading pictures with GPS position data included to flickr will be available.

These Motonav navigation servieces should be available during May, however the prices are not yet defined… via (auto translated)