Comments on: Rugged Trimble Windows Mobile handheld gets an EV-DO modem http://gigaom.com/mobile/rugged-trimble/ Sat, 11 Feb 2012 06:01:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Alan A. Reiter http://gigaom.com/mobile/rugged-trimble/#comment-393338 Tue, 11 Mar 2008 15:06:04 +0000 http://jkontherun.wordpress.com/2008/03/11/rugged-trimble#comment-393338 The “big picture” here is 2008 is The Year of Mobile + GPS. Firstly, we’re seeing companies that produce in-vehicle GPS devices incorporate wireless technologies, such as Wi-Fi and cellular, into their products. And one major GPS company, Garmin, is developing a GPS-centric cellular that will be launched later this year.

Secondly, we’re seeing an explosion in the development of cellular phones with GPS. As a result of these two industries converging, we will see many location-based services, both free and for sale from cellular companies, GPS vendors and independent software houses.

This is good news in general, but the increasing prevalence of location capabilities has its dark site, too. I wrote about the good and bad of mobile GPS, if anyone cares:

http://www.internetevolution.com/author.asp?section_id=526&doc_id=146962&

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