The worldwide market for GPS units will reach 900 million by 2013, according to ABI
Research’s
"Global Navigation Satellite Positioning Solutions" report.

ABI said that in-car
navigation would remain the most important GPS application but that the
devices would also be used in many other consumer, business and
industrial environments such as telematics and asset tracking.

“Personal navigation devices for in-car use will be
increasingly complemented by converged solutions based on GPS-enabled
handsets for pedestrian navigation and location-based services,” said
ABI Research principal analyst Dominique Bonte.

The company also said that low-cost GPS would be possible in
all mobile devices by 2013. GPS in mobile phones and other consumer
electronics could spur applications such as automatic geo-tagging for
camera phone pictures. Location-based social networking could also
follow.

Via eMarketer