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I think this may signalling the beginning of the end for stand-alone, handheld GPS units. When features start to converge and become commodities bundled with other items, the market for purpose-built devices eventually goes away.

 

In ten years or so, a wallet-sized gizmo may pack all the features of your laptop computer, cell-phone, GPS, digital camera, entertainment system, and probably offer a handful of whiz-bang tools we haven't thought of yet.

 

How much better or cheaper would a single-purpose device have to be in order to compete with that?

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In ten years or so, a wallet-sized gizmo may pack all the features of your laptop computer, cell-phone, GPS, digital camera, entertainment system, and probably offer a handful of whiz-bang tools we haven't thought of yet.

 

The sooner the better, please.

 

Hopefully they'll have a built in personality. That'll give me someone to talk to driving down the highway :rolleyes:

 

(Anybody read Roadmarks by Zelazny?)

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