News MS smart phones gain in-car nav kit

So - once the W2K guided Tridents start raining down on us, fear not - Your wince mobile will lead you to saftey! [/sarcasm]

This from elReg:

Navigation software specialist ALK will allow Windows Mobile-based smart phones to be used as in-car map-readers later this month, the company said today.

And ALK held out the prospect that it may also support the more popular Symbian smart phone platform next year.

CoPilot Live for mobile phones is essentially a version of ALK's PocketPC navigation software, shoehorned onto a handset. Like CoPilot Live 5, the smart phone edition provides both 2D and 3D route-maps with spoken directions for in-motion navigation.

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Thank God the mapping's been done by a third party. Remeber Autorute and the missing towns?