giraMi, the main portal for information and trend of the city of Milan, landed on the screens of mobile phones.
Thanks to the news PocketCity best of the Lombard capital may also be consulted on the move quickly and easily, and above all at no cost.
giraMi Mobile uses an RSS-based system that allows users to navigate between the contents of giraMi without need Wap or Web connections.

All the news and appointments of giraMi can be viewed through mobile phones, PDAs or smartphones.
Users can also interact with all key tools integrated into mobile devices, for example interfacciandosi with the phone to call directly the numbers reported, sincronizzandosi with the timetable to store appointments in the city not to be missed, or even connecting with the navigator to have driving directions.

The beta test giraMi Mobile is already available for Windows Mobile users on the site to page www.girami.it/mobile/.

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If you often to new places, have trouble reading maps, or simply hate to ask for instructions, you may want to consider a portable GPS navigation system. Once you give it a destination, the system can plot a route, to provide guidance spoken, and display each turn, you drive, or in some cases on foot. Most units let you choose options that include orientation traced the shortest, fastest, and even a toll-free route. An internal database also includes points of interest such as gas stations and ATMs, and the net asset value system can deliver to you the closest. You can even choose a restaurant close by the type of food.

Although it is not always as easy to use as a dashboard systems available on many new vehicles, portable systems are catching up. Features like internal, rechargeable batteries and pre-loaded North America map databases are now commonly included on budget systems. More premium features such as real time traffic reports are becoming available on more affordable housing, but are often require additional hardware.

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Nokia has started deliveries with its N95 mobile phone in Europe and Asia and is the first of a series of products expected the Finnish manufacturer that will come with support for GPS.

This will be a model other than GPS, and have a large number of other functions which can be seen mostly in the price -550 euro without tax and this would be the most expensive device N series, the Nokia are called multimedia computer. Nokia N95 is sliding mobile phone that comes with a built camera than five megapixel and 2.6 inch 240×320 display pixel, and mobile functions can be used as a music and video player. The course is based on Nokia S60 software and Symbian operating system, is working on HSDPA network, and supports EDGE and WCDMA networks. The company is still hoping that users will mostly attract support for GPS and Nokia thus became the first major company that will offer mobile phones with this option.

Some market analysts are still a little suspicious towards this option, but want to see how GPS will work on Nokia because the GPS component, located deep in the device which should extend the time to find the location of users.

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