Are stand-alone GPS devices going to become an endangered (yet easy-to-locate) species? A report from Forrester Research suggests that phone-based navigation will overtake GPS devices by 2013, becoming the primary way we keep from getting lost on the way to the Waffle House.
According to the report:
PNDs (Portable Navigation Devices) are the dominant solution today, but Forrester believes that within five years, phone-based navigation will supplant PNDs as the preferred navigation option. Despite the phenomenal growth of PNDs as a category in the past year, Forrester believes that navigation as a service on mobile phones will outpace built-in navigation systems by the end of 2010 and will eclipse the penetration of PNDs by 2013
That would seem to be lent some credence by Tom Tom's presentation at Apple's Worldwide Developer Conference this week, where they showed off turn-by-turn navigation via an iPhone. If the navigation companies are already moving in this direction, it must be true, right?
Video via TomTom's Official YouTube page
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