subject: The Wifi Car Dvd Player Will Be The Gps Of 2010 [print this page] One eBay powerseller believes that the average person will take one step closer to having their own KITT in 2010 Thanks to the impending presence of WiFi in car DVD players.
Besides talking to David Hasselhoff and shooting flames at bad guys KITT also could navigate by itself.
This planted the idea of GPS into the heads of everybody everywhere and, in this time almost everybody wanted their car to be like KITT.
But GPS car DVD player cars took some time to catch on with the public.
Magellan introduced the first really accepted GPS unit in 1995 it wasn't till 2005 that the car mounted GPS unit (i.e GPS car DVD players) really took off.
GPS functionality could be found in everything from mobile phones to handheld GPS systems but it was the GPS car DVD player that sold really well.
One eBay reseller who focuses on selling car DVD players said that, in 2009, car DVD players that had GPS functionality sold four times more often than those that didn't and fetched twice the price.
WiFi capable car DVD players won't take nearly as long to capture the public's attention.
The big car manufacturers only started offering WiFi capabilities in their cars at the end of 2009. However, the younger generation has grown used to WAP and WiFi capable cell phones and laptops in the last five years making internet access in the car not such a far fetched concept.
And while there is already strong, growing demand for WiFi car DVD players and car computers there are already manufacturers out there building the car DVD players to meet that demand.
Trips through Hong Kong electronics fairs in 2009 uncovered many different car computers, which ran Windows XP and were priced not much more than standard car DVD players.
And some Chinese dropshippers have already started selling WiFi car DVD players online.
This combination of demand and supply certainly makes the fledgling WiFi car DVD player and car computer market a large and tempting one for eBay resellers but one eBay powerseller warns that it won't be without its pitfalls.
The wireless internet access is more complicated than GPS and it is a good idea for anybody looking to take advantage of these exciting new developments to:
A) Test out any new suppliers and goods they plan to stock up
B) Either install systems for customers themselves or insist that customers use a professional installer.
However, with this development around WiFi access it certainly is an exciting time to be a reseller and one development that car electronics vendors should certainly look into carefully.
