The market for GPS enables phones, says the recent ABI Research, will grow in this (2009) recession year by 6.4%. It seems like the total volume of the market will be 240 million devices in 2009 and 450 M by 2012.

It is interesting to note that predictions severely underestimated the marked for the so called PND = personal navigation devices, which were thought by In-Stat to be only 56 M in 2011. Cellphone (smartphone) revolution altered the prediction by ten times.