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Paris, France – February 22, 2006 – Webraska, a leading provider of mobile GPS
navigation solutions and high-end geospatial software platforms for wireless carriers
and major service providers worldwide, is pleased to announce that Orange has
renewed its confidence in Webraska by selecting Webraska’s new Webraska Navigation
6 software for the upcoming version of its Orange Navigation solution.
Available from March 2, the new offer from Orange will include new features such
as:
- Smart Traffic Update to automatically monitor traffic conditions and be alerted
every 5mn to 20mn along with suggestion for alternative routes;
- Pedestrian navigation;
- Advanced point of interest search by criteria and the opportunity to automatically
generate a phone call to a selected point of interest.
Orange Navigation includes Webraska’s renowned crystal clear voice instructions
and easy to read colour maps clearly showing all street names and all details
of the most complex intersections to guide drivers safely and on time to their
destination. Other popular features such speed trap alerts, with their location
automatically refreshed, and automatic map updates, are part of the standard version.
The new offer will be compatible with new devices including SPV C600, SPV M3000
and Nokia N70, and will include a new SIRF III GPS receiver.
Pricing will be either a pay as you go of 1.50 € per route, or a subscription
of 10 €/month. The GPS receiver will be available from France Telecom points of
sale and on the Orange website www.orange.fr at the price of €129.
Planning ahead, Orange’s development roadmap includes A-GPS integration allowing
to shorten the localisation process and a new SIM card concept, SIM+, a SIM card
with widened memory space allowing downloading automatically the navigation application
in the device when inserting the SIM card.
Orange Navigation is hosted and powered by Webraska, and uses NAVTEQ’s digital
maps and traffic information from V-Trafic.
It offers GPS assisted car navigation on mobile devices running Symbian Series
60, Symbian UIQ, Windows Mobile for Smartphones and Windows Mobile for Pocket
PC, and is available all over Europe.
For more information please visit www.webraska.com |
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