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Product News:
 03/18/08: Watch our coverage
spread across the world.
02/08/08: Navizon 2.0
for the iPhone released.
02/06/08: Create a Navizon Alert
and have an email automatically sent to the address of your choice when you
or one of your buddies enters a specific area.
12/10/07: Mexens Technology launches Navizon Lite, a free version of Navizon working with cell positioning only.
11/19/07:
Refer new users to Navizon and
earn 20% of their rewards.
09/18/07: Navizon now available for the iPhone.
07/09/07: No phone? No problem. Turn your PC or Mac into a navigation system with Navizon desktop. Click here to try it now.
04/30/07: Navizon now available on Blackberry... and on Series60 3rd edition.
01/17/07: Navizon now compatible with the Treo 700w.
01/04/07: Happy New Year! And happy Version 3!!
12/01/06: Now you can view your buddies and geotags on Google Earth. If you have it installed, check out the public group as an example.
10/07/06: Mexens Technology launches searcharoundme.com based on the new WebLocator API and takes local search to a new level.
10/03/06: Developers can now include Navizon into their own web pages or mobile applications with the release of two new APIs.
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This is an
analogy to other peer-to-peer sharing networks like Kazaa and Grokster. On those networks you can get the music files you want without
getting the actual CD. But at the beginning someone had to get
the CD and create the mp3 files, right? So here it’s the same
only that it’s with GPS. And the song you are looking to
download is the equivalent of the coverage in your area.
Navizon allow you
to get your positioning information thanks to Wi-Fi and Cell
Tower signals. In order to know the exact location of each
Wi-Fi
access points and cell towers, they need to be mapped thanks to
a GPS device.
Navizon's users who have a GPS contribute to mapping the
wireless landscape, they collect data
that can be shared with other Navizon users.
That's how the
network works!
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The idea
behind the Navizon community is fairly simple: some users who have a
GPS device are mapping the wireless landscape in their neighborhoods
so that other users who don’t have a GPS will be able to use a
positioning system that works without a GPS, by triangulating Wi-Fi
and/or Cellular signals.
Like in every community, there are the people who do the work and
others who benefit from it.
So, users who don’t contribute any data - those who don't have a
GPS - have to pay a reasonable fee ($24.99) if they use
the full version. A Lite (free) version that will provide
Cellular positioning only is also available.
But the money is not going in our pocket: it is going in the pocket
of those who do the hard work by mapping the wireless landscape in
their area.
So,
you can use either...
...or
 with
your own GPS device
Frequently asked questions...
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When GPS signals are available
Navizon uses this information to build an accurate map of the
Wi-Fi and Cellular "Landscape" around a user (it determines the
exact Latitude/Longitude of Wireless Access Points and Cellular
Towers of the area) and then stores this positioning information
locally on your device - those wireless access point positioning
data can be sent to Navizon server thanks to the Sync process.
While Navizon is building this "Wireless Map", you can still
access and operate your favorite Pocket PC GPS applications (as
you would normally) since GPS Positioning Mode is totally
transparent to your device and its GPS applications!
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Navizon works as a virtual GPS.
Thanks to the data collected by Navizon GPS users (positions of
Wi-Fi access points and cellular towers), this software allow you to find your position, just as a GPS...
That's why we call it a software-only GPS
Navizon is as accurate as GPS, and can even work where GPS doesn't (indoors, in urban canyons...)
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Through the data sync process the data you collected with your GPS - while using Navizon
with a GPS device- are
transferred to Navizon server and converted into points on your
Navizon account.
This way, other Navizon's users can benefit from those data.
By default, Navizon will sync the data automatically, but you can also do it manually by hitting the sync button.
Smartphone
Pocket PC
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You can get points by mapping the wireless landscape using
Navizon with a GPS device, which means that you collect information on nearby Wi-Fi access points and Cellular towers.
Points are given according to the following rule:
- 15 points for each cellular tower
- 3 points for each Wi-Fi access point
if they are discovered by you (or in other words if you are the
first one to map them)
- 1 point for each Wi-Fi access point
- 2 points for each cellular tower
if they have already been mapped by someone else
Once you have 10,000 points, you can redeem them in a reward and $19.99 will be wired on your
Paypal account.
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