What do you get when you cross a portable navigation device and a cellphone?

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TomTom today introduces TomTom Rider, a new portable navigation device created especially for bikers.

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Nevertheless, some iPad users are employing the tablet like a portable navigation device (PND) to map out routes while they are sailing, hiking and driving.

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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.

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