Thread: N9 [Shipping]: It's finally here [for some]!
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buchanmilne is offline buchanmilne
2011-09-16 , 14:05
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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,

On March 8, 2007 Nokia was shipping N95 in key European, Asian and Middle Eastern markets.[4] It was on sale in many countries on the week of March 11.

On April 7, 2007, the N95 went on sale in the United States through Nokia's Flagship stores in New York and Chicago and through Nokia's nseries.com website.


The first iPhone was unveiled by former Apple CEO Steve Jobs on January 9, 2007,[1] and released on June 29, 2007.

"A software update in January 2008[41] allowed the first-generation iPhone to use cell tower and Wi-Fi network locations trilateration,[42] despite lacking GPS hardware."

"On July 11, 2008, Apple released the iPhone 3G"

"The iPhone 3G added 3G cellular network capabilities and A-GPS location."

and LG was already doing HSDPA the year before both of those.
On dumbphones, where about the only feature that differentiated the phone from a data card was the ability to download videos on the phone bought from the operator's multimedia service, if they had one.

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.
In many (I guess probably non-US) countries, Nokia phones had time-limited (typically 1 to 2 years) voice guided navigation for the country they were sold in, before iPhone had GPS or Android phones were launched.
 

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