This IS a real GPS unlike other smartphone, iphone, etc. While those phones still have GPS positioning (needed to calculate signal delay from the tower so signals from multiple towers can be combined to provide better signal quality), they do not have onboard maps. The maps are downloaded over a data network, so when you go to a rural area, the navigation stops working. The nuviphone though is supposed to have onboard maps so it can work independently of the cellular network. Considering most GPSs start at about $200, a phone with real GPS navigation for $300 is not all that bad. Once you add the tom tom app ($100) and mount ($100) to the iphone, even that ends up costing over $500, so $300 still looks pretty good.
HP's Jon Rubenstein told us that his company wanted to veer in a new direction, and veer it surely did -- the HP Veer 4G will arguably be the smallest fully-functional smartphone on the market when it goes on sale May 15th.
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This IS a real GPS unlike other smartphone, iphone, etc. While those phones still have GPS positioning (needed to calculate signal delay from the tower so signals from multiple towers can be combined to provide better signal quality), they do not have onboard maps. The maps are downloaded over a data network, so when you go to a rural area, the navigation stops working. The nuviphone though is supposed to have onboard maps so it can work independently of the cellular network. Considering most GPSs start at about $200, a phone with real GPS navigation for $300 is not all that bad. Once you add the tom tom app ($100) and mount ($100) to the iphone, even that ends up costing over $500, so $300 still looks pretty good.