ABI Insight

Connected Low-cost In-dash Navigation: the End of the Journey for In-car Navigation?

Author: Dominique Bonte, Vice President and Group Director, Telematics and M2M

Published: 01 Dec 2010

While the old debate about smartphone navigation applications versus dedicated Personal Navigation Devices rages on, a third form factor is quietly conquering the navigation space. It emerges as a reincarnation of the oldest of in-car navigation form factors, one that has been around for more than a decade as an expensive option (AKA status symbol) in high end passenger cars: embedded, in-dash navigation. In its new form in-dash navigation is both affordable and …connected, embracing the even older consumer telematics paradigm closing the circle completely.

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