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In the next few months we will a lot of new mobile phones com­ing to the mar­ket with inte­grated GPS functionality.

At the same time you can observe a lot of new appli­ca­tions like smart2go and AmazeGPS lin­ing up with Tom­Tom Nav­i­ga­tor, Route66 and similar.

These are all great appli­ca­tions. They have pretty much the same func­tion­al­ity and I have test most of them per­son­ally. I have always been very happy with most of them.

I think that they can (and need to) evolve when used on a mobile phone. These appli­ca­tions should be aware of the two way data com­mu­ni­ca­tion chan­nel that is avail­able on mobile phones. Some of these appli­ca­tion already try to make use of this chan­nel. (e.g. give live traf­fic infor­ma­tion while you drive).

The pos­si­bil­i­ties are still unexplored.

Usu­ally I make use of GPS when I need to reach a place that I do not know how to reach. That’s the basic use.

Let’s try a dif­fer­ent approach. Why don’t we turn on the GPS mobile phone every sin­gle time we drive let­timg him reg­is­ter posi­tion, route,speed and time and upload this infor­ma­tion to a cen­tral­ized location.

After the sys­tem will have col­lected enough data he will be able to com­pare my planned route with sta­tis­ti­cal data adjust­ing auto­mat­i­cally the route accord­ing to the aver­age traf­fic con­di­tion. This should be a sort of AI appli­ca­tion that will learn from me, the cus­tomer, about my habits and about dif­fer­ent traf­fic con­di­tions over time.

I would like to down­load auto­mat­i­cally updated POI (Point of Inter­est) to my devices while I drive.

As always you may want to con­nect your GPS appli­ca­tion to your address book. It may auto­mat­i­cally check where your friends are and give you a notice when you come close to one of them.

From an oper­a­tor point of view you can use loca­tion data to adver­tise on mobiles while the user is dri­ving push­ing him to stop by a store.

Why do I blog this? I always have the sen­sa­tion that when a new tech­nol­ogy is made avail­able to the masses the devel­op­ment curve tend to slow down. I think this is a mis­take. At that point in time the curve need to rump up with new ideas.

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