SiRF making GPS chips for Android (gPhone)

Published on December 18th, 2007 in gps navigation, phones

android-gps.jpgManufacturer of the most popular GPS receiver chip Star III, SiRF, today announced that they started to implement features to make sure that GPS-enabled mobile phones based on Android provide location awareness experience for the consumers, joining Google to promote Android.

SiRF is actively working on the Android platform to include some of the more innovative features of Secure User Plane Location (SUPL), a standards-based protocol that allows a mobile handset client to communicate with a SUPL Location Platform (SLP), including transport layer security (TLS) for location privacy and multiple session capabilities to provide the most compelling user experience. SiRF is also implementing support for Android-based assisted GPS (A-GPS) handsets, including mobile station based (MSB) and mobile station assisted (MSA) positioning methods to ensure that the Android platform passes Open Mobile Alliance (OMA) and 3GPP conformance testing for third-party certification. SiRF intends to enable its customers to quickly bring Android-based handsets to market by providing Android platform support for a broad range of products based on the SiRFstarIII architecture, including its single-chip SiRFstarIII GSD3t high-performance satellite signal processor.

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2 Responses to “SiRF making GPS chips for Android (gPhone)”

  1. Snart finns SiRF överallt! | GPSkoll.se Says:
    December 19th, 2007 at 12:02 am

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  2. Dara Parsavand Says:
    December 20th, 2007 at 12:08 am

    I’m very interested to see how well the GPS functions will work on the early Android models that include this (for me) essential hardware. I’ve recently read about the ability of the Android API to cover two way messaging that doesn’t involve the cell tower (at what range I’m not sure), so I’m very curious if this model can compete with Rhinos which allow for exchange of GPS coordinates over pretty long distances.

    I was more interested in the Hammerhead II since I though it would be lower power (the Magellan Triton run times for AA are lousy, though that may not be SiRF’s fault). But I hear nothing about that chip anymore - not sure if it is going to make it into any Android phones.

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