Nokia plans to launch its first GPS-enable handset, the N95, in the Taiwan market in mid-May, Nokia Taiwan said on a May 8 product presentation. The N95 will also be Nokia's first handset that supports HSDPA (high speed downlink packet access), or 3.5G, technology, according to the company.
With the N95, users can download maps of Taiwan and other countries via Nokia Maploader software. In Taiwan, Nokia is cooperating with Maction Technologies, which provides GPS navigation maps under its PaPaGo-brand, according to sources at Nokia Taiwan.
The current GPS-enabled N95 would be updated to also support AGPS (assisted GPS) technology in the near future, the sources indicated.
Worldwide sales of Nokia N-series multimedia handsets reached 10 million units in 2006, the sources noted.
Nokia's first 3.5G handset, the N95
Photo: John Hus, Digitimes, May 2007
