IPhone 2.1 Update to Bring Turn-by-Turn GPS?
Written by admin on July 25th, 2008 in gadgets.
The much needed iPhone 2.1 software update will bring improvements to the GPS functions. Specifically, the iPhone will not only know where you are, but in which direction you are going and how fast you are moving. This is being interpreted by many people as the coming of turn-by-turn GPS, despite David Pogue’s claim that the antenna is "too small" (a claim refuted by Apple VP Greg Joswiak).
That might be so. Proper turn-by-turn GPS would be a huge blow for existing satnav manufacturers, unless of course Apple doesn’t build the functionality into the Maps application and instead allows third parties to fill the gap.
What this update does show us is that, despite a buggy beginning, iPhone 2.0 has the ability to turn the world of mobile devices upside down. Now that there are a 3G and a GPS chip inside, and now that the App Store is up and running, the iPhone can mimic pretty much any other class of handheld device with the simple addition of software.
It won’t just be a phone, a web browser and an ipod in your pocket. It’ll be everything in your pocket.
Apple beta testing iphone 2.1 firmware, adding more GPS features [Gear Live via Crunchgear]
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