Garmin and TomTom to launch their own GPS-enabled phones this year?

It’s a fact that mobile phones with built-in GPS receivers will sooner or later kill the pure personal navigation devices. After all, who would want a device which only does a single task in the era of convergence. That being said, the latest rumor we have involves two navigation giants, Garmin and TomTom, which are apparently working to bring their own GPS-enabled phone to the market in the not-that-distant future. The rumor goes further, suggesting that this might happen till the year’s end, as the two companies have already enlisted the help of Inventec Appliances, Quanta Computer and Compal Communications to produce them. Now we have to wait to see how will this affect the market. HTC, Nokia and Samsung are already shipping the GPS-enabled devices and other handset makers are jumping-in pretty quickly with their offerings…

[Via: Unwired View]