Most of us have heard about GPS systems, but don t know a lot about the various brands, like Garmin, Navman, or Tomtom GPS software. The latter provides GPS solutions for a wide number of applications, including navigation in your car, on a motorcycle, from your phone or PDA or at the office. You simply need to purchase a GPS receiving device for the application you want to use GPS for, and install the appropriate software.
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As if to make up for all those trademark shirking, innovation lacking knock-off factories in China, we find this Chinese GPS phone that doesn’t even have a name. This thing doesn’t purport to be any sort of name-brand phone - it’s just a run-of-the-mill Chinese phone, but with GPS. Oh, and it only costs about $130USD! At that kind of price point, we’d can’t imagine why any and all Chinese citizens wouldn’t be trekking around the countryside with their GPS phone in hand (okay $130 is a lot of money, we’re just making a point).

The mystery GPS phone comes packed with Chinese obligatories like the gaudy speakers on the backside, the silk-screened touchscreen, and dual-SIM capability. It’s just too bad that this GPS phone is custom tailored to China’s GPS system - which means we’ll never see functional GPS on this thing Stateside (or any side outside of China, for that matter).

Keep reading for more pics.

[Via: JUSTAMP]

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