Toyota and General Motors are among a growing list of firms offering in-car navigation systems.
Seven out of ten of the in-dash car navigation systems in Western Europe and the U.S. use Navteq.
Bluetooth GPS receivers turn handhelds into car navigation systems and factory-installed hands-free systems continue to slowly march their way into vehicles.
"The in-car navigation market has accelerated its growth with various new products stimulating the development of the market, " chairman Colin Welsh said.
Even though turn-by-turn directions are quickly becoming de facto on smartphones, WP7 does not include car navigation in its mapping app.
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Nokia also debuted two in-car navigation devices this year and a GPS accessory that turns any Bluetooth phone into a personal navigator.
Well, PocketNow got their hand on the top-end iCN 750 in-car navigation system to see just how useful downloading location-mapped pictures can be.
She alleges her car navigation device was seized for seven months.
While this may be sufficient for in-car navigation systems, it would not be suitable for automated vehicles, which are currently being developed by the likes of Google.
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Eventually, when processors and memory are cheap enough, these 3-D cityscapes will make it onto in-car navigation systems, helping drivers understand their locations by displaying landmarks around them.
"Personally, I think the iPad is too big for car navigation use, but the customer is always right, " says Marcus Thielking, chief marketing officer for navigation software firm Skobbler.
Garmin's automotive OEM group utilizes the company's long-standing experience in interface and hardware design from its automotive, avionics and marine segments to develop innovative in-car navigation, telematics and infotainment systems.
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Cheaper cell phone apps and bigger-screened, in-dash car navigation systems are posing a challenge to the single-purpose portable gadgets, even though prices have dropped by hundreds of dollars in the past several years.
In Austria, Ars Electronica, a collaborative behind a digital arts festival, museum and lab, helped Siemens develop a car navigation system that shows the driver a video of the street rather than a map.
In-car navigation, voice recognition, and MP3 support were still the stuff of science fiction in those dark days (particularly at the four-digit asking price), and the whole thing was doomed to a geeky, spendy niche.
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In Austria, Ars Electronica, a collaborative behind a digital arts festival, museum and lab, helped Siemens (nyse: SI - news - people ) develop a car navigation system that shows the driver a video of the street rather than a map.
An affective GPS car-navigation device would respond with a soothing voice when it detects a driver is stressed.
Since electronics firms have piled into digital video discs, camcorders and car-navigation systems, margins have been crushed by overcapacity.
More recently he has made investments in music site Spotify, crowdsourced car-navigation aid Waze and waterproofing tech outfit HzO.
Eighty-five million smart phones will be sold this year with GPS built in, eight times the number of in-car and portable navigation devices.
All are now said to start testing in the coming months, and we're just learning that the car will feature GLONASS navigation, is said to include a "telephone with a keyboard" and will have some sort of infotainment system controlled by a "data panel, " which we're hoping is a little better integrated into the dash than the slab dominating the Model S center console.
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The menu provides access to the world of in-car multimedia, GPS TomTom LIVE navigation, the R-LINK Store, etc.
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Hirofumi Yoshitome, 62, installed a navigation system in his car more than nine years ago, then had a friend tweak the device so he could tune in to baseball games and other programs.
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Nokia Drive delivers a full-fledged personal navigation device (PND) with free, turn-by-turn navigation and dedicated in-car-user-interface.
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Lumia smartphones will have some attractive features such as Nokia Drive, which is a full-fledged personal navigation service with free turn-by-turn navigation and dedicated in-car user interface.
This included a weekend in a remote area of North Carolina when my cell signal was roaming and several car rides when I used BlackBerry Maps for navigation.
Besides doing away with the need to use fiddly controls on handheld computers, mobile phones and music players, a speech-recognition chip would have other uses too: it could form the basis of a powerful, portable interpreting device, for example, or allow car drivers to change radio stations or operate navigation systems by speech alone.
The control car was a cramped affair, without a separate navigation or wireless room.
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