Were you glued to your monitor yesterday for the Apple announcement?
Well, if so, take a look at this Consumer Reports piece on the new iPhone and what it exactly means for GPS navigation...
Steve Jobs and a cast of industry characters introduced the new Apple iPhone 4 at WWDC 2010, Apple's annual worldwide developers conference in San Francisco. True to form, the new-generation, touch-screen smartphone adds a notable roster of new features and services, chronicled in detail on the Consumer Reports Electronics blog. For those of us on the autos side, we were anxious to see what changes might appear that would impact GPS navigation. There are a few.
The iPhone 4 uses a 3.5-inch screen--same as the current iPhone 3G and 3G S. With some Android phones boasting screens over 4 inches, not enlarging the iPhone's screen was an opportunity missed for Apple that would have aided map reading, as well as viewing email, documents, and Web pages. However, the screen does boast significant resolution improvements...
[Source: Consumer Reports]
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