RIP Standalone personal navigational units

Slowly but surely main stream press are picking up on the potential of the three way converged devices and the opportunities which they present. There is an interesting article by Chicago Tribune journalist Eric Benderoff discussing the begining of the end for standalone navigational devices. As we had discussed earlier in my opening piece sole purpose digital devices such as GPS navigators and music players have now been adopted by the mobile phone providers of the world.

I disagree with comments made about these type of devices debuting at Cebit this year, sure it might be the first time these companies have released this style of devices but what about devices like the Mio a701 announced in 2005 and debuting at Cebit last year?

Thanks to Roger Hart's GeoCarta blog for linking to this story.