ISRO to design NavIC for new smartphones which will help improve the geo-location feature! Read on to find out more...

In an exciting piece of news, the Indian Space Research Organisation has confirmed that they are providing consultation to chipmaker Qualcomm, with regard to enabling Navigation with Indian Constellation in their Snapdragon mobile chipset platforms. NavIC, also known as Navigation with Indian Constellation or The Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System (IRNSS) is of superior quality, and at par with US-based GPS, Galileo from Europe and Russia’s Glonass. 

#ISRO has provided consultation for Qualcomm towards enabling #NavIC capability in their Snapdragon mobile chipset platforms. These chipsets are being released by Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.

For more details visit: https://t.co/uREJBDnPn8

— ISRO (@isro) January 21, 2020

Android smartphones running on new Qualcomm chipsets will use Indian regional satellite navigation system NavIC within the Indian region and neighboring countries.

ISRO's NavIC offers better positional accuracy than the American GPS system.https://t.co/fyK0DyFrLs

— Abhijit Chavda (@AbhijitChavda) January 21, 2020

According to ISRO, these chipsets released by Qualcomm will help accelerate the adoption of NavIC by smartphone OEMs. What’s more, the OEMs can release new models for the Indian market, which are NavIC-enabled. This will also help enhance the geolocation capabilities of smartphones. 

Proud moment for India.. now #ISRO GPS will be used in mobile phones ?https://t.co/BgzQL5oMG0

— Indian Military Updates (@MilitaryUpdate_) January 22, 2020

Qualcomm announces first chipsets with Isro's NavIC GPS for Android smartphones

(report by @abhijitahaskar) https://t.co/rusN6r8dYJ pic.twitter.com/dcmeWeuACU

— Livemint (@livemint) January 21, 2020

launched new processor lineup with ISRO's navigation system NAVIC. ? pic.twitter.com/d7dNervgHk

— Niladri Bhattacharya (@N9I0L5A1D6R5I1) January 23, 2020

If reports are to believed, Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi will be the first company to use the NavIC-enabled chips. The chipset is likely to provide accurate position information service to users in India, as well as the region extending up to 1500 kilometres from its boundary, according to ISRO. 

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Qualcomm announces first chipsets with Isro's NavIC GPS for Android smartphones

(report by @abhijitahaskar) https://t.co/rusN6r8dYJ pic.twitter.com/dcmeWeuACU

— Livemint (@livemint) January 21, 2020

With #NavIC, India Shows the Way!

The GPS system developed by #ISRO was available for use in certain domain, but the recent developments suggest #NavIC will be available available to larger public use in near future. pic.twitter.com/fXPedgLTEn

— ᖇᗩᒍ ᗪEᐯᗩᑎ ?? (@RAJDEVAN19) January 22, 2020

IRNSS was developed for terrestrial, aerial and marine navigation, as well as disaster management and integration with mobile phones. As stated by ISRO, the international body, 3GPP, has formally approved the usage of the tech.

.@ISRO assisting global chipmaker @Qualcomm to enable #Snapdragon mobile chipset platform provide geolocation capabilities to its users within the coverage of #NavIC is a pioneering step towards warranting #GPS through indigenous technologies. https://t.co/sr506bKKTZ

— Dr.Omkar Rai (@Omkar_Raii) January 22, 2020

It’s time to wait and watch - after all, this is a huge development!