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Navigation Tools type PND (Personal Navigation Device) was expected to die due battered by fierce-featured smartphone GPS (Global Positioning System). Still, research firm iSuppli Corp. assess, PNDs will be able to defend itself when it offers internet connectivity.
Research firm ABI (Allied Business Intelligence) Research Inc. judge, the PND is actually more functional than GPS smartphone if the PND is equipped with internet connectivity and a big screen. With internet connectivity, a PND is able to compensate with smartphone GPS navigation feature.
ABI Research explains, the PND manufacturer does offer a variety of display options. However, the most popular products on the market today use a screen between 3 inches to 5 inches. Compared with smartphones, PNDs screen is indeed relatively larger. For example, the most sophisticated smartphones in the world today, namely iPhone 4 by the Apple Inc, only carries a 3.5-inch screen. However, ABI Research asserts that a number of current PND manufacturers and even some are already offering a 7-inch screen.
To improve competitiveness, the PND manufacturers nor just enlarge the screen size, but also plant additional features such multimedia functions, voice commands, Bluetooth connectivity, and even digital cameras.
Looking at the PND manufacturers to increase the size of the screen, smartphone manufacturers follow as well. Evidently, now widely circulated GPS equipped smartphone screen size of four inches or larger.
"We called smartphones are equipped with a screen size of four inches or greater, and equipped with a processor speed of more than 1 GHz as Superphone," says Research Analyst, Strategy Analytics Inc. Alex Spektor
Expected, superphone global sales volume in 2010 will only reach about 15 million units. However, because more and more manufacturers will offer superphone, believed to superphone global sales volume to rise to around 100 million units in 2015.
Among the many smartphone manufacturers, a producer of the most aggressive proponents build superphone is Android operating system. Among the supporters of Android, HTC Corp is a manufacturer of the most aggressive. In June 2010 superphone HTC Android era begins with the release of Evo 4G. As the name implies, Evo 4G cellular connectivity comes the fourth generation (4G). Evo 4G superphone classified because it has a screen size of 4.3 inches.
In June 2010 another supporting Android, namely Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., also jumped into the market superphone. In superphone market, Samsung has relied Galaxy-S 4.0-inch screen size. Samsung says, Galaxy-S received enthusiastic welcome from consumers.
