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It seems that Sprint started a strong promotion campaign for the upcoming Samsung Instinct, an advanced mobile handset that already became of the most wanted cell phone models on the market, even if it is not available yet.



The Apple iPhone is one of the most popular handsets worldwide, and people already wonder how the next version will look like, but as the two cell phones have similar high-end capabilities like iPhone’s multi touch-sensitive display and Samsung Instinct’s full touch-sensitivity technology, everybody started to ask themselves if the Instinct will get ahead of the iPhone.

Sprint presents this demonstration video with Samsung Instinct’s GPS capability to prove it is just better than the iPhone in finding locations:

Sprint Navigation system is built-in and powered by Telenav, the first navigation system adopted by cell phones in US.
It offers voice or onscreen turn-by-turn driving directions directly on your mobile phone, so you can easily locate places you need to arrive at, like restaurants, hotels, shops, totalizing more than 10 million points of interest.
Also, Telenav shows the lowest gas prices in your area, alerts you about the traffic conditions and suggests smart reroutes and the maps are in full color.

On the other side, iPhone uses the Apple’s Maps application developed especially for it, which approximates the location by using cell tower information and Wi-Fi networks.
The hybrid maps show major street names over satellite imagery and the user can also check traffic information in real time.



To improve this capability, Nav N Go revealed at CeBIT this year that iPhone will son feature a GPS unit that will us the iGO My Way 8 satnav software, which is designed to help the user find locations and plan routes, providing voice-enabled turn-by-turn directions and many others.
As you know, iPhone does not support third party applications and the producing company released the SDK for enabling the use of such applications.

Gomite’s solution is the LocoGPS, a wireless module compatible with the iPhone and the receiver comes with a processor, the antenna and a microSD card slot to allow the user to store more maps. It works with the iGO 8 software and is accessible via the Wi-Fi GPS receiver on a web interface.
iPhone fans expect it to appear at the beginning of this summer.

(Thanks, Derek!)