* Naviblog's promised land, the ComiNavi, finally kicks off. What is ComiNavi? Well, it's a Japanese abbreviation for "community/communication/buzz" + "navigation" services.
* And now it's started its appearance on Yahoo's headline news. As within 2 years most mobile phones will be fitted with a GPS functionality (1), the Big 3 mobile carriers DoCoMo, au and Vodafone have started the ultimate facedown. Although there were no details about soon-to-be mobile incubents such as E-Access and so on, they too are widely expected to join the fray.
* Unfortunately, there is a mistake in this article, and in the heads of those in the industry. Current leaders in mobile navigation such as NAVITIME have by and large, apart from a number of patent applications, merely shifted technology used in car navigation to mobile phone handsets. Hence current navigation services are used solely for finding a location on a map or for corporate advertising, but still nothing about communication between individuals.
* Mobile phones were originally developed as a tool to spur greater freedom in our communications with each other. Pushed by the explosive development of the blogging industry, the future of navigation will not be the retrieval of location-based information, but the sending and receiving of communication information by users based on location. The future of ComiNavi looks bright.
Note: (1) GPS functionality is the functionality whereby information on the current location can be retrieved by satellite communication. Abbreviation of Global Positioning System.
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