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Location awareness differentiates mobile applications from traditional PC and wired Internet services. Location awareness can be used, for example, for navigation and mapping, workforce tracking, finding points of interest, and getting weather information. It presents a compelling new business opportunity for application developers, operators, and content producers.
In addition to numerous C++ APIs in the S60 platform, the Location API for Java™ ME (JSR-179) is supported from S60 3rd Edition onwards and in some Series 40 3rd Edition devices.
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