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ABI Research
Asia-Pacific Will Overtake Europe and North America as Largest Personal Navigation Market in 2012, Says ABI Research
July 25th, 2008
Personal navigation has been one of the great consumer technology success stories of the past four years. "2007 was 'the year of the personal navigation device'," says ABI Research principal analyst Dominique Bonte. "The estimated 11 million PNDs shipped in the US last year represent a fourfold increase over 2006 shipments. Handset-based navigation also fared well, and there was a renewed interest in outdoor GPS devices. New form factors emerged. High-profile mergers and acquisitions redrew the landscape of the navigation industry." 2008 and 2009 will see continued success for navigation devices, with 'connected' PNDs becoming more important....
Source: Health Business Week (2008-07-25)
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