Start navigating your organization with GPS using your cellphone

According to a latest news from Wireless Week, American Automobile Association has started using GPS for navigating their organization using the mobile phone. The AAA has 50 million members and 24% of all households in the United States.

The association recently launched its AAA Mobile service on the Sprint network and expects to have it available through other carriers soon, according to Jeff Green, managing director of the association's location-based technology effort. The service uses the Networks in Motion platform and initially is available on nine GPS-enabled devices.

The service allows members to receive audible, turn-by-turn directions plus information from the AAA's database like ratings of hotels, restaurants and points of interest from its guidebooks. A click of a button sends the member's GPS location to a AAA representative for roadside assistance.

The service carries a $9.99 monthly subscription charge. AAA will promote the service to its members through its regular channels. Sprint apparently won't advertise it, since the carrier has its own white-label on-deck GPS service provided by TeleNav.

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T-Mobiles towards Steady Growth

T-Mobile USA reported steady growth for the quarter adding 857,000 new customers, totally 27 million customers at the end of the second quarter. Though it grew slower than the top Tier 1 two carriers, its customer additions more than doubled those of the third largest U.S. carrier, Sprint Nextel. The carrier also reported a lower contract churn rate than Sprint, at 1.8%, down from 2.2% the first quarter.

Average revenue per user also showed slow, but steady growth rising from $52 last year to $53 for this quarter.

T-Mobile posted revenues of $4.8 billion, up 13% from last years $4.2 billion.

"In the quarter, T-Mobile continued to take bold steps to expand our user base and drive consumer-relevant innovation," said Robert Dotson, chief executive officer and President of T-Mobile USA, in a company statement. "We continued to add high-quality customers… In the quarter, we also introduced HotSpot@Home, the first in a new line of breakthrough products and services that allow customers to make unlimited calls from home while providing the best in-home wireless coverage possible. With this introduction, the landline replacement revolution has begun in earnest."

Source: Wireless Week

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Get reflected with Nokia's Prism Collection

Nokia introduced two new handsets Nokia 7900 Prism and the Nokia 7500 Prism as a part of its prism collection , both of which are expected to be available in the third quarter.

The Nokia 7900 Prism comes with an anodized aluminum backcover, its Organic LED display supports up to 16 million colors and features "living wallpaper", which subtly changes throughout the day according to time as well as battery and signal strength, so that each screen is unique.

More than just style, the 7900 Prism features dual-band 3G technology and quad-band GSM capability for worldwide connectivity. In addition to a 2-megapixel camera, the Nokia 7900 Prism comes with 1GB of internal memory.

The Nokia 7500 Prism's slick black exterior is spliced with bright, interchangeable color accents. It comes with a 2-megapixel camera as well and can record high-quality movies. The Nokia 7500 Prism can play music for nine hours and hold up to 1,500 songs on an optional 2 GB microSD card.

The estimated retail price of the 7900 Prism is $552, and $290 for the Nokia 7500 Prism.

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Once Again, Nokia Ahead!!!!!

According to one of the article of Brad Smith from Wireless Week, a new survey shows more wireless developers expect to write applications for Nokia platforms as Nokia headsets are more in sales in market. In the United States, where Motorola has been the leading brand, the survey finds it also has been the leading developer platform.

The survey was done by Evans Data, which lauded Nokia for what it called a "world-class" developer program under Forum Nokia. The program, says Evans Data President John Andrews, "has been crucial in solidifying their developer base in Europe and successfully developing markets in Asia ."

The Evans Data survey of about 400 developers also found 64% of them were writing some open source applications, and that half of them are using location-based information.

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