Market research company IHS iSuppli has been looking at the trend of incorporating 'wireless charging' cradles or mats in vehicles. It says proprietary solutions are now giving way to industry standards that are compatible with a variety of devices.
The company notes that Chevrolet, Buick, GMC and Cadillac vehicles could include Powermat inductive charging from next year.
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This year, 49.6% of all in-car navigation device sales are expected to be smartphone solutions. That’s up from 40.6% in 2010 and 23.4% in 2009, according to IHS iSuppli research.
2012 will see unit sales for smartphone navigation take more than 50% of the automotive navigation market.
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When I arrived at Mobile World Congress earlier this month, I said I wanted to see a bit of everything. Ground-breaking devices, advanced technology, network innovation... and some original applications as well. What I didn't realise was that I could find all of those in one place, on the SK Telecom stand.
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62% of the world’s new cars will have factory-installed telematics in 2016; a dramatic increase from less than 10% in 2010. That’s the prediction in a new report from ABI Research.
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A new research report from Berg Insight reckons that 4.3 million cars in Europe will have an on-board telematics device at the end of 2010. The main application for these mobile devices is stolen vehicle tracking, followed by automatic emergency calls, driver assistance and insurance use.
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