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PosiMotion unveils unfortunately-named iPhone app
PosiMotion is planning a suite of applications for the iPhone to assist in everything from navigation to a social network for iPhone users. Its flagship product, hilariously named G-Spot (ask your parents), features a compass and tool to determine your latitude and longitude using the iPhone 3G's built-in GPS antenna. According to the press release, you will be able to find G-Spot at the App Store on July 11 "for an affordable $1.99." Don't forget to visit the G-Spot website, where you can download high-resolution G-Spot pictures, and get more G-Spot information. (Sorry. Couldn't resist. I'll stop now.) Anywho, PosiMotion's other products include G-Park, which helps you find your car in large parking lots with step-by-step directions back to your vehicle. G-Fi is a small hardware device touted as the "world's first" mobile GPS network router, adding GPS capability to any nearby WiFi-enabled device. G-Life, which is vaporware thus far, will be a social networking application for iPhone users with an undefined feature set. The company will also publish a series of games. Curiously, the company is also featuring G-Minds, a "publishing program" that has been "pre-certified by Apple to test applications and distribute them on Apple's App Store." It sounds like a sort of consignment program for developers not as-yet accepted into the App Store program. Thanks, Yoli!
PosiMotion's G-Fi: another WiFi GPS accessory for the iPhone
Although we just saw the Nav N Go / Gomite prototype demonstrated yesterday, a company called PosiMotion claims that it has the "world's first wireless GPS" accessory for the iPhone. To prove it, they've launched a two-page website. Fishing for some of that iFund dough are we boys? Anyway, according to the site the G-Fi WiFi GPS receiver will support the iPhone and iPod touch and is expected to ship this summer. Really though, how much confidence will VCs have in an upstart still running on the ol' Cingular network?
