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News Release from: u-blox | Subject: u-blox 5 GPS technology
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 21 January 2008
GPS chip helps your golf game
uPlay's SmartView technology automatically generates the proper views of the course based on a golfer's current location and updates those views appropriately as the user moves on the golf course.
uPlay has chosen a GPS chip developed by u-blox to power the uPro, its golf rangefinder uPlay's uPro is a very compact golf rangefinder
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 20 Jun 2005 at 8.00am (UK)
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The uPro delivers excellent sensitivity and satellite tracking while maintaining a size that is roughly half that of competing devices.
The uPro's hardware will also allow the introduction of additional features such as scorekeeping, shot tracking and voice navigation.
oseph Balardeta, President of uPlay said "With u-blox' GPS technology, we were able to achieve these goals and deliver outstanding sensitivity, tracking and accuracy".
"With uPlay choosing our u-blox 5 GPS technology for their new golf ranger and navigation device the performance of our technology finds confirmation in another mass-market application", says Wade Files, Regional Sales Manager at u-blox.
One of the outstanding features of the uPro is Pro Mode.
In Pro Mode, uPlay's SmartView technology automatically generates the proper views of the course based on a golfer's current location and updates those views appropriately as the user moves on the golf course.
Three different views allow the player to plan out the perfect shot.
Unlike other GPS units or lasers, Pro Mode gives a golfer all the distances he needs all in one screen.
Scale accurate measurements are used to measure to and from any point on the golf course, even the outskirts of the rough.
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