Death By Smartphone: In-Car Sat Nav Doomed, At Least in Europe

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New research by Comscore has underlined something we always knew, but perhaps we weren't expecting to be so significant: Cellphone satellite navigation use in Europe is rocketing skywards at an amazing pace, at the expense of dedicated systems.

The data for cellphone GPS system use in February of this year shows that in five big Euro nations (Britain, France, Germany, Spain, and Italy) 21.1 million people used their smartphones for navigating from place to place. If that weren't a significant...