HTC has just unveiled its all new HTC Touch Cruise updated with a complete navigation system and advanced location-based features. The Touch Cruise introduced HTC Footprints, a location-based journal that let’s you create postcards with pictures and notes and chronicles which are chronicled in a timeline.
Convergence between GPS units and mobile phones have been a long, slow time coming. Now that HTC has developed the software for Windows Mobile, hopefully it will become a staple of the next generation of GPS-enabled HTC phones. The Touch Cruise comes with a car cradle that lets you mount the phone on your dash to view the GPS.
HTC plans to make the Touch Cruise available in markets around the world in spring 2009. There’s no announcement as to which US carriers will stock the navigation-enhanced smartphone, but it’s likely limited to Verizon and Sprint since there’s no GSM version.
This is just another example of how HTC is pushing the smartphone market forward with TouchFlo and now navigation on top of standard Windows Mobile. Hopefully the GPS is open and won’t require users to pay a subscription charge for a feature already built into their phone.
Via HTC
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