Thursday, April 24, 2008

TIM to launch ‘Special Travel Edition’ N Series phones

Telecom Italia Mobile announced the launch of a range of GPS navigation enabled smartphones. The handsets


offered will be Nokia N95, N73, and N70. For an additional €80 to €100 these smartphones will embed Nokia’s Smart2Go navigation software with Italian maps, a memory card, a car cradle and a Bluetooth GPS receiver (except for the N95 which is already GPS-enabled).

At the same time TIM is also offering an off-board navigation solution powered by Telenav. This demonstrates some wireless carriers in Europe have understood off-board navigation is probably not what most of customer are willing. Furthermore an hybrid solution such as Smart2Go makes use of the cell phone connectivity therefore creating value for them.

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