The award was chosen for GyPSii by Navteq, a map maker and a Nokia subsidiary since October 2007, and of course it was Nokia which acquired Symbian this summer.
Yet it has clearly drawn especial interest within the world of Nokia, and by extension, Navteq and Symbian. Does this help GyPSii’s case amid the competition? Perhaps. Perhaps not. To be semi-directly honored for development by the most financially and quantitatively productive mobile conglomerate on the planet seems no small mark on one’s record. And more to the point, it was reported that Nokia acquired remaining Symbian shares to the tune of $410 million this past June, and nine months prior wrote Navteq a check for $8.1 billion. All said, it most definitely sees promise in the mobile location market, and its suave little endorsement of GyPSii only adds fuel to the fire that it has been building for the past year or so.
Of course, there’s no reason to come to an assumption as to Nokia’s or Navteq’s thinking for the award given the GyPSii team. Whether an acquisition in line is really for anyone to assume might be true or disregard entirely. But I imagine there is a logical way to see this bit of news, and that is to say that GyPSii is presumably headed to higher ground.
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