Dell Looks To Turn Netbooks Into Navigation Devices

Wednesday, July 1st, 2009

Dell Looks To Turn Netbooks Into Navigation Devices

Say hello to your latest personal navigation device: a netbook. Dell plans to introduce a GPS and Wi-Fi card that can be integrated into the company’s netbooks to turn them into gizmos that can offer turn-by-turn direction as well as any Garmin or TomTom.

“Smartphones already have GPS capabilities,” says Alan Sicher, senior wireless product manager at Dell. “We are now bringning it to netbooks so the devices know where… Read More