New Apple iPhone Series Latest to Have ISRO's NavIC. What This Means for the Indian GPS

After the launch of the latest iPhone series, Apple has confirmed that the premium smartphones will support NavIC, India’s indigenous navigation system. The minister also stated that Indian company Accord Software & Systems has developed NavIC chipsets, allowing automakers to integrate NavIC into their in-built navigation systems. However, Chandrasekhar clarified that the government wants smartphones and automobiles to use NavIC in addition to other GPS systems, such as the US’ GPS, Russia’s GLONASS, EU’s Galileo, China’s BeiDou, and Japan’s QZSS. Local solutions like MapmyIndia and our consumer app Mappls, which sit on top of this positioning tech further enable indigenisation and self-reliance in this area of mapping and geospatial.” “MapmyIndia has been actively supporting and supply NavIC enabled IoT devices to vehicle fleets, and also closely worked with ISRO to build the NavIC app optimised for use by fisherman, which was spoken about by PM Narendra Modi during Mann Ki Baat,” he noted.