SiRF GPS Technology Powers New DeLorme Earthmate GPS Receiver with Bluetooth

SiRF Technology today announced that its SiRFstarIIe/LP global positioning system technology powers the new Earthmate GPS with Bluetooth from DeLorme, a leading digital mapping and GPS innovator. With SiRF’s location technology, Earthmate helps people to quickly and easily determine where they are, and how to get to where they want to go, from a laptop or personal digital assistant.

Earthmate GPS with Bluetooth, shipping now, is a versatile GPS receiver that provides sophisticated location and navigation capabilities to PDAs and mobile computers. It comes with DeLorme’s Street Atlas USA 2003 software to provide accurate mapping and in-vehicle navigation. The underlying SiRFstarIIe/LP high-performance, low-power GPS chipset ensures highly accurate, reliable location information, and a quick position fix, even when the sky is obstructed by foliage canopies or tall buildings. The Bluetooth wireless connection is well-suited for use with GPS in vehicles, eliminating cables conventionally used to connect the GPS receivers to laptop or handheld computers. Earthmate is typically placed on a vehicle dashboard, where it acquires the satellite signal and calculates the vehicle’s position, velocity and heading, which are then wirelessly transmitted to a Bluetooth-compliant display device anywhere in the vehicle. For many years, DeLorme has helped consumers get where they need to go, with innovative mapping software, GIS tools, and handheld navigation devices, according to Marc Prioleau, director of Consumer Markets for SiRF.

This most recent offering underscores the company’s ability to employ the latest standards and technologies to make navigation as fast, accurate, and easy as possible. SiRFstarIIe/LP Offers Accuracy, Power Efficiency The SiRFstarIIe/LP, introduced in 2002, has been deployed extensively in consumer devices such as Earthmate, as well as cell phones and computer accessories, because it offers high performance, dramatic power efficiency for longer battery life, quick time to first fixes, and comprehensive design tools for faster integration of GPS into consumer devices.

SiRFstarIIe/LP’s Adaptive TricklePower feature is an advanced power management technology that intelligently modulates power consumption depending on signal strength, allowing an optimised blend of performance and power savings. DeLorme is bringing GPS solutions to the mainstream with our latest Earthmate GPS receiver. The new GPS chipset from SiRF provides very fast acquisition, even in cities and under dense foliage, comments Caleb Mason, DeLorme spokesperson. For more information, on the latest GPS News see gps navagation.

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