I meant to write a very exited blog about the new iPhone 4 having a gyro, which I thought would really advance the options to get indoor nav on your smartphone. It turns out there are $1 gyros and $7 gyros. Guess which one is in the iPhone and which one is useful for navigation…

The demand for gyros pushed by the iPhone4 definitely means that the prices are coming down, but let's wait a few years to see how quickly and strongly mobile gyro nav is adopted. In the meantime, trust Layar to show us what gyros can enable on a smartphone (and on the forthcoming Nintendo 3DS).

Nearly half of the respondents in a survey by TheWhereBusiness listed mobile navigation as their main area of interest in the mobile industry. Christopher Backeberg looks at the results...

In response to research carried out by TheWhereBusiness, this year's Navigation and Location Summit Europe will look closely at indoor positioning and pedestrian navigation. Helen Raff and Christopher Backeberg check in...

Last week's Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona produced insights into likely major developments in major areas of mobile location-based services (LBS). Where is the industry headed in location-based advertising, social networking and technology, and who will make the greatest gains? Christopher Backeberg sums up...

Video interview with Jim Nardulli, vice president worldwide sales for Nav N Go, on market gains for Nav N Go and the new challenge from Google Maps Navigation.

Video interview with Chris Schreiner, analyst at Strategy Analytics, on recent research findings about US consumers and mobile navigation.

PublicEarth, "The Wiki for Places", made its public launch at midnight on Monday/Tuesday, US East Coast time. Andy Walker, in charge of the Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) region for PublicEarth, gave Christopher Backeberg and TheWhereBusiness his views on the evolving mobile community industry and how PublicEarth fits in...

Prove that paid-for navigation services provide added value that Google's forthcoming free nav service can't match... that is one of the key challenges facing the industry, according to Lewis Mowatt, product manager, automotive at Nuance Communications UK.

More than half of all actively used navigation applications will be downloads from app stores by the year 2015, according to the latest research from Berg Insight. This means the mobile operators will lose their dominance of the subscription navigation market, writes Christopher Backeberg...

Have personal navigation devices (PNDs) finally had their day? At worst, yes, say some analysts. At best, research indicates this sector may achieve little more than stagnation in the next few years, reports Christopher Backeberg...