American’s struggling handset makers- Motorola, who layed off 10,000 positions since the start of 2007 announced at the CTIA the “Smart Rider”, which sports a built-in GPS accompanied with powerful navigation features such as voice-guided directions, real-time traffic reports and automatic re-routing — the Smart Rider also features 2.8 inch screen, Bluetooth, and voice activation.The Smart Rider will be sold worldwide and will be available on the market in June 2008.
According to speculators, their new entry to the GPS feature will slowly left Motorola’s sales ( that is only considered keeping up with the market, as their currently atleast 3 laps behind ) .
Nüviphone phone is a GPS first then a phone after, it features quad-band GSM, tri-band HSDPA, Bluetooth, a 3 megapixel camera, and a crystal 3.5-inch touchscreen, and on top of that the pre-installed software includes maps of Europe, North America, real-time traffic, weather, local events, gas prices, and the like.