Thursday, October 1, 2009

Intrinsyc Is Shipping GPS-E Soleus Transit Device

Intrinsyc Software (News - Alert) International, Inc., a provider of solutions for mobile and embedded devices, announced that Hong Kong-based GPS Technologies Company, Ltd., or “GPS-E,” began shipping a connected PND, or “cPND,” running on the Soleus Transit software platform.
Designed for granting the ease of use, the GPS-E navigator features an intuitive user-friendly interface that allows anyone to get to the destination even if the user has never used a GPS navigator before.

GPS-E licensed Soleus Transit, a software platform optimized for the development of connected personal navigation devices. Soleus Transit allows device makers to add features for innovative and differentiated devices, also allowing to reduce development time and costs.

Souheil Gallouzi, senior vice president and general manager of Mobile Products Development, Intrinsyc, said that, by utilizing the deep functionality of Soleus Transit, the flexibility of the Soleus Framework, and leveraging the Intrinsyc expertise in navigation software development, telephony and systems integration, GPS-E is able to deliver a high-performance, cost-effective connected PND to the market in a timely manner.

"The GPS-E development teams did an exceptional job leveraging the many features of Soleus Transit to seamlessly integrate connectivity features with the Destinator navigation software," Gallouzi said.

Hoyt Bi, R&D director of GPS Technology Co., Ltd. said that Soleus Transit enabled the company to rapidly develop and launch an innovative, connected PND in just months.

"Fully-integrated telephony allowed us to offer features that provide a unique value to our customers such as the ability to browse through a list of contacts or text messaging inbox to choose a destination address," Bi said.

Built on Microsoft (News - Alert) Windows Embedded CE, Soleus Transit includes a pre-certified telephony stack, intuitive user interface framework, applications library and supports the Destinator navigation application on a platform optimized for building connected navigation devices.
Anamika Singh is a contributing editor for TMCnet. To read more of Anamika's articles, please visit her columnist page.

Edited by Kelly McGuire Source satellite.tmcnet.com

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