Smartphones have been in the workplace for years, but two features are increasingly becoming key: GPS and Wi-Fi radios.
That's the word from Ovum, which released the results of a study Tuesday that examined 77 smartphone models, according to InformationWeek. Of the group, 59 turned out to have GPS radios, while only 49 had Wi-Fi capability. (The other 28 must have been on Verizon.)
Ovum is projecting 23 percent growth for smartphone shipments through 2009, which mirrors what many analysts have said recently, and remains impressive in a down economy. Handsets like the T-Mobile myTouch 3G with Google--which just today got a new turn-by-turn GPS navigation app from TeleNav--are leading the charge.
"The widespread availability of GPS across all of the major smartphone platforms is great news for developers wishing to deploy location-based applications and services," said Tim Renowden, an Ovum analyst, in a company statement. "But so far few developers have taken advantage of this beyond basic navigation products."
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