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Google versus Personal Navigation Devices

This space is really heating up. It will be interesting watching it all play out with consumers and on Wall Street…

Amplify’d from www.reuters.com

Google creates roadblock for TomTom, Garmin, Nokia

Google’s (GOOG.O) foray into phone-based navigation makes it unlikely that TomTom (TOM2.AS), Garmin (GRMN.O) and Nokia (NOK1V.HE) will ever recoup their big recent investments in navigation technology.

“The new Google navigation software for Android is a serious threat to TomTom, Garmin, and Nokia’s navigation devices,” said Pablo Perez-Fernandez, analyst at MKM Partners, referring to Google’s Android software for running mobile phones.

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end of the road for TomTom and Garmin?

Research firm iSuppli believes that smart phones will dismantle the portable navigation device market…

Amplify’d from blogs.barrons.com

Will Smart Phones Crush The Stand-Alone GPS Market?

The days of the stand-alone portable navigation device market are numbered.

By 2014, according to research firm iSuppli, the market for PNDs will be eclipsed by GPS-equipped smart phones. In 2009, the firm says, there will be 114 million PNDs in use, compared to 57.8 million smart phones. But by 2014, the numbers will flip: 305 million smart phones will be in use, versus 128 million PNDs, according to a forecast by iSuppli.

“The year 2009 marks the dividing line when sales expansion for the PND slows as the product moves from the growth phase to the maturity stage of its life cycle,” iSuppli contends.Read more at blogs.barrons.com