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Article: Connectivity to information last differentiator among portable navigation devices.(Focus)
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- RCR Wireless News
- Article date:
- August 7, 2006
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New competitors will threaten the established portable navigation device vendors, said ABI Research.
The enormous market expansion and related price war in the consumer navigation market is no longer new. What has changed is that the resulting attempts at product segmentation and the additional revenue streams for the most competitive portable navigation segment are increasingly arriving in the form of network-connected services.
Over the past few years, higher-end models have offered features such as text-to-speech and real-time traffic ...