NEW DELHI: In a significant development, Apple has incorporated India’s NavIC GPS navigation in the latest iPhone 15 series, and this will be available to users and app developers in the Indian subcontinent, minister of state for IT & electronics Rajeev Chandrasekhar has said.
This is the first time that Apple has extended support for NavIC – created by ISRO – on its iPhone models.
Accord Software and Systems is the first in India to design NavIC chips. They have created more than a million NavIC IC chips using the advanced 28-nanometre technology. “We’re planning to make it a standard practice that all devices using GPS technology should have NavIC-powered chipsets or NavIC chips inside. This may happen faster in automobiles and cars,” Chandrasekhar said.
This is the first time that Apple has extended support for NavIC – created by ISRO – on its iPhone models.
Accord Software and Systems is the first in India to design NavIC chips. They have created more than a million NavIC IC chips using the advanced 28-nanometre technology. “We’re planning to make it a standard practice that all devices using GPS technology should have NavIC-powered chipsets or NavIC chips inside. This may happen faster in automobiles and cars,” Chandrasekhar said.