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Bernard is offline Bernard
2011-09-16 , 14:03
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Originally Posted by danramos View Post
Actually, Apple's iPhone had already had GPS in it months before the N95 was released at the end of the year, and LG was already doing HSDPA the year before both of those. Again, nothing revolutionary from Nokia on either of those. Free voice navigation had already been there a LONG time before Nokia had it--famously Google Navigation already had it before Nokia did and was part of what forced Nokia's hand to make their free, eventually.
The N95 was released in march 2007 a few months before the original iphone, and the original iPhone did not have GPS. The iPhone 3G added GPS, but that was juli 2008.
So yes, I'm pretty sure it was the first mass-market mobile phone with GPS.
I don't know enough about the LG product line, maybe you are correct, don't know.
Google navigation was indeed a few months earlier, but only in the US. Nokia was world wide.

edit:
Google maps navigation was released in november 2009 for the Motorola droid update. Two months later Nokia made the voice navition part of Ovi maps free for ALL existing Symbian devices with with GPS. Navigation was available even before that time, but you needed to pay for the voice direction.
So yes, also very revolutionary!
Last edited by Bernard; 2011-09-16 at 14:15.
 

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