NavIC support to become must for all smartphones
NavIC, the minister of state for electronics and information technology Rajeev Chandrasekhar said on Thursday.
The devices can either provide support for NavIC-powered chips or use NavIC chipsets, he added. While 5G phones will need to provide mandatory support for NavIC by January 1, 2025, all other phones operating in the L1 band that currently use the Global Positioning System (GPS) will need to provide mandatory NavIC support by December 2025, he said.
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Offering CollegeCourseWebsiteNorthwestern UniversityKellogg Post Graduate Certificate in Digital MarketingVisitIndian School of BusinessISB Product ManagementVisitIndian School of BusinessISB Digital TransformationVisitIndian School of BusinessISB Digital Marketing and AnalyticsVisitChandrasekhar said that Apple extending its support for the Indian Space Research Organisation’s NavIC was a significant achievement. “The idea and the goal today is that wherever we have the capability in India, we will certainly start pushing platforms to incorporate these in their products. Wherever we have these capabilities, the aim is to incentivise companies to use them as well,” he said.
The government’s push to include NavIC support in navigation systems of mobile phones, 5G enabled devices and automobiles assumes significance as iPhone maker Apple has agreed to support the protocol in some of the newly launched iPhone 15 models.
“It is conceivable that in the coming future, as mobile phone and chip design mature and reach the granularity and the sophistication required for mobile devices, the chips that power mobile devices will be NavIC chips,” Chandrasekhar told reporters in the capital on Thursday.
The government will also
