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 SmartZone Navigation Overview
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Consumers seeking to purchase a GPS navigation system are faced with a bewildering range of solutions from in-car systems to personal navigation devices, PDA-based systems and solutions for smartphones.
As mobile operator or service provider seeking to launch a branded navigation solution, your challenge is to identify a technology provider who can help you meet a range of complementary needs including:
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A best-in-class navigation application to delight your customers supported by the most up-to-date, comprehensive map data available on the market.
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Service management tools that are essential to meet commercial success encompassing:
- Flexible pricing models to meet the needs of different target market segments
- Comprehensive usage reporting to facilitate optimisation of your market proposition
- Account management and support tools to meet the needs of your customer service organisation.
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Content management integration services enabling you to differentiate your offering through rich dynamic content such as real-time traffic and points of interest.
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A broad range of professional services to enable you to customise and integrate the navigation service into your existing product portfolio, customer service infrastructure and billing systems.
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A reliable, robust system architecture backed up by round-the-clock support.
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What's new
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Version 3, released February 2005:
SmartZone Navigation 3 significantly enhances the software in terms of both ergonomics and features:
Version 2.1 released December 10, 2004:
Marketed by Orange France since Christmas 2004, version 2.1 features:
- even clearer maps,
- simplified instructions at complex intersections,
- radar warnings,
- address formatting improvements
- support for new devices.
A free trial version of the application has also been made available on-line: the application, offering 30 days free usage, may be downloaded from the Orange France website: http://gps.orange.fr.
The trial version is available for devices running Symbian Series 60 and Microsoft Windows Mobile for Pocket PC.
Check out this section regularly for more updates!
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SmartZone Navigation 3 new features
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View SmartZone Navigation comprehensive features and screenshots
Re-engineered GUI for touch screen devices
SmartZone Navigation 3 provides a completely re-engineered graphical user interface (GUI) for software running Pocket PC or Symbian UIQ, best selling operating systems for touch screen devices. The new GUI significantly improves product usability:
- Subscribers can access all functions and menus by fingertip-control on the touch screen, making the stylus almost unnecessary.
- Destination address input has been simplified, reducing the number of clicks to first vocal instruction. For instance, users can now launch navigation to their bookmarked favourite locations in only three clicks.
- Information display has been optimised:
- Maps and pictogram views are simultaneously displayed. Users can enlarge one or the other simply by tapping the screen;
- The current road and the next road name are both permanently displayed.
Improve ergonomics for non touch screen devices
Improved ergonomics for software running on Symbian Series 60 and Microsoft Smartphones include simplified menus and full compliance with operating system guidelines, making the software even more intuitive and easy to use.
Advanced address bookmarking functionalities
SmartZone Navigation 3 allows users to store personal addresses that can be re-used at any time. Bookmarked addresses are already geocoded and allow launching navigation more quickly. Bookmarking functionalities enable:
- To bookmark any address at any time including locations along the route;
- To display a map around a bookmarked address. For example, this feature helps users to find their way on foot from the car park to their destination.
Merged or "concatenated" instructions
At complex junctions, the pictogram mode features merged or "concatenated" intersection pictograms enabling to illustrate simultaneously two successive instructions. Merged pictograms are coupled with merged voice instructions such as "at the roundabout, take the second exit and then turn right";
Connection status
GPS and GPRS/3G mobile connection status are both permanently displayed.
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