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Nokia working on tracking traffic via GPS-enabled cell phones

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By: , IntoMobile
Monday, November 10th, 2008 at 12:59 PM

Today, the Nokia Research Center, alongside the University of California and Berkley, is launching the Mobile Millenium, a pilot project to use GPS-capable phones to report traffic conditions. The Mobile Millenium project builds from the initial Mobile Century project started last February, and could revolutionize traffic reporting. Google Mobile has some accurate traffic reporting in a few cities, which I think is based on magnetometers installed into those cities’ roads. Using existing GPS units is a considerably cheaper alternative, and will provider a broader set of data, regardless of whether or not the infrastructure is in place.

The pilot program is launching in the San Francisco Bay area, using the Nokia N95 – interested in trying it out? Go ahead and register now.

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Simon Sage

Simon Sage’s education largely surrounded writing, technology and online community, leading him to begin his blogging career at www.BlackBerryCool.com and to quickly discover a vibrant and active community surrounding BlackBerry and mobile technology. In exploring RIM’s platform, he has learned what enterprises are looking for in mobility as well as what makes the innocuous BlackBerry so appealing to them. Recently Simon’s been covering RIM’s gradual move into an already-crowded consumer market, and the impact of burgeoning challengers, such as the iPhone, as well as long-time leaders, like Nokia, on BlackBerry’s advancement. With plenty of content under his belt, Simon will be branching off a bit to see what other smartphone manufacturers are working on while still using BlackBerry as a barometer. At IntoMobile, you can count on his posts being even-handed, well-informed and thought-out.

  • Tony

    This is greate stuff! Do you know when it comes to rest of the world?

  • Simon Sage

    I guess that will all depend on how the testing here pans out. It will also take some time to develop the software for other platforms than Symbian – I reckon maybe another year before it gets widespread, presuming everything goes smoothly.