{"id":9,"date":"2007-04-05T12:44:00","date_gmt":"2007-04-05T12:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vhirsch.wordpress.com\/2007\/04\/05\/first-gps-equipped-mass-market-phone-out-in-europe\/"},"modified":"2007-04-05T12:44:00","modified_gmt":"2007-04-05T12:44:00","slug":"first-gps-equipped-mass-market-phone-out-in-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vhirsch.com\/blog\/2007\/04\/05\/first-gps-equipped-mass-market-phone-out-in-europe\/","title":{"rendered":"First GPS-equipped mass market phone out in Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"

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It’s out of its cage! Nokia tells<\/a> us it started shipping the brand-spanking new N95, which includes – a first outside advanced markets such as Japan – GPS on board of a mobile phone (next to MP3 player with proper 3.5mm audio connector [!], 3D hardware acceleration, WLAN and a 5 mega pixel camera with Carl Zeiss lense)<\/p>\n

Now, not only does the phone have GPS but also comes preloaded with Nokia Maps<\/a>, an application that has the street maps for 150 countries in (the few remaining countries that presumably include such remote places like Queen Anne land in Antarctica probably don’t have streets!).<\/p>\n

This would arguably be into the face of Roger McNamee (see yesterday’s post on this) concerning the defeat of multi-purpose devices. If the N95 would take over, it would probably be bye-bye to TomTom and other SatNav single-purpose devices. Since you are carrying your phone with you, it would also reduce the risk of your car being broken into: thieves apparently<\/a> are mainly to into SatNav devices these days…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s out of its cage! Nokia tells us it started shipping the brand-spanking new N95, which includes – a first outside advanced markets such as Japan – GPS on board of a mobile phone (next to MP3 player with proper 3.5mm audio connector [!], 3D hardware acceleration, WLAN and a 5 mega pixel camera with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[],"tags":[257,452,471,573,652],"class_list":["post-9","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-gps","tag-n95","tag-nokia","tag-satnav","tag-tomtom"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paSwZv-9","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vhirsch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vhirsch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vhirsch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vhirsch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vhirsch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vhirsch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vhirsch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vhirsch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vhirsch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}