By Christopher Price on December 8, 2005
Verizon has launched their first consumer offering of gpsOne services on their network. Called VZConnect, the BREW-based application currently is only available for the new Motorola V325, and costs $10/month or $3/day for driving directions.
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By Christopher Price on July 31, 2005
Sprint late this week launched the first J2ME-based GPS application on their network. The Weather Channel application ($4.99/month) has been retrofitted with a new Find Me feature that will display the current weather for your exact location using the built-in GPSOne functionality in the device. Currently, the application is only confirmed to be available in […]
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By Christopher Price on January 29, 2005
Update: Just to clarify, Microsoft is only providing a link between existing enterprise software and one of Sprint’s existing LBS APIs. They are however the only company to complete a solution and hence they are powering the critical portion of Sprint’s GPS, the API-to-application link. Considering how MapPoint technologies generally eventually become available in consumer […]
Posted in Navigation, Sprint | Tagged gps, lbs, Microsoft, Navigation, sprint |