The NDP dominate the market for navigation systems

The portable navigation devices (PND for Portable Navigation Devices) represent almost two-thirds of the global market for navigation systems, said IDC. And this improvement does not seem ready to stop, in 2007 the sector should grow by more than 90% compared to last year. The global market for navigation for its part should more than double in 2007. In parallel to Western Europe, the main consumer of PND, and the United States, the firm underlines the growing interest in the Asia-Pacific - including China, which has its own Gps Navigation satellite network - for These portable navigation systems.

An offer of services still expanded

This enthusiasm is also showing an increasing number of players. The type of services offered should therefore become an important factor of differentiation. "It is clear that services will be an important part in choosing a PND which should also soon compete with other types of devices like mobile phones," says Diana Hwang, research director at IDC. "The GPS technology and new services include an increasing number of handsets. They change in the future consumer habits in their daily lives in the way they play and interact."

GPS systems for hiking

On the global navigation systems, the NDP should not be the only ones to successfully carve Thursday the growing concern of people for their health and enthusiasm for sporting activities such as hiking or navigation Pleasure is expected to participate in the emergence of dedicated Gps Navigation Systems. The sector should also weigh more than a billion dollars in 2011. Traditional GPS solutions embedded in vehicles for their part should grow softer, but relatively stable. This, as providers of navigation technologies will continue to work with automobile manufacturers to provide equipment at low prices.

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