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Article: Nokia adding GPS route-guidance option to cellphones.(Communications)
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- TWICE
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- February 23, 2004
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IRVING, TEXAS -- Nokia will turn its planned 5140 phone into a handheld GPS navigation system with route-guidance functions when it ships a GPS-equipped snap-on shell in the second quarter.
The introduction is part of a nascent trend by wireless handset companies to incorporate GPS-based route-guidance functions into cellphones.
Recently, national master agent and distributor American Wireless began offered Nextel's GPS-equipped i730 phone preloaded with Telenavigation's Java-based TeleNav application (see TWICE, Feb. 9, p. 36). American Wireless is also distributing the application so dealers can load it onto two other GPS-equipped Nextel phones.
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