#GPS Receivers In 80 Percent of Cell Phones

By next year, global positioning system (GPS) chips will be in almost 80 percent of all cell phones made, according to iSuppli. Look for an explosion of location-based services as nearly every cell phone made gets a GPS receiver over the next few years. R.C.J.


Here is what iSuppli says about its own report: With cell phones increasingly becoming the nexus of the burgeoning markets for navigation and Location Based Services (LBS), the use of Global Positioning System (GPS) technology in such platforms is set to explode during the coming years, according to iSuppli Corp. In the fourth quarter of 2011, 79.9 percent of cell phones shipped—amounting to 318.3 million units—will incorporate GPS functionality, up from 56.1 percent in the first quarter of 2009—or 187.8 million units—iSuppli predicts. The attached figure presents iSuppli’s forecast of penetration of GPS functionality in mobile phones. The adoption of GPS in mobile handsets is being driven by smart phones...
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