Telmap brings its offering to MIDs
By Dusan Belic on Sunday, February 15th, 2009 at 4:31 PM PST In Announcements, Macworld San Francisco 2008, Services
Even though we still wait to see an uptake in Mobile Internet Devices (MID) adoption, that doesn’t stop Telmap to bring its location-aware software to the platform based on the Intel Atom processor and Linux-based Moblin. Guess the idea here is to “go multi-platform” no matter what. This is not to say I’m against MIDs — quite the contrary, I just don’t see a significant market opportunity at this point.
Anyhow, if and when “MID revolution” happens, Telmap will be there to offer MID owners its comprehensive navigation solution, which BTW is already used by such companies as Orange, FT Group, Vodafone (NYSE: VOD), SFR, The Carphone Warehouse, O2 (NYSE: TEF), Sprint (NYSE: S), AT&T (NYSE: T) and Vodacom.
In the meantime, if you want to see “Telmap in the MIDdle of the action,” they will be demonstrating software at their stand #1E02 in Hall 1 and at the Intel stand #8B109 in Hall 8 at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.
Telmap’s nav program for the UK and Ireland is awful. Do they even drive the roads? If Google Maps read out directions, I would never touch Telmap again. No surprise Vodafone dropped them.