CSR ships combined GPS/Bluetooth chip

I don't know about you, but if you don't already have GPS on your phone, you would love to have it, but that usually means spending an extra $100 on a phone. Not anymore. Today CSR launched the world’s smallest GPS combination device, the BlueCore BC7830, designed for mobile handsets- in one single chip measuring 11mm2 in silicon size, it includes GPS, Bluetooth v2.1+EDR, FM transmit and receive technologies and support for Bluetooth low energy. This unique design allows phone/handset designers to add the GPS function to their products for less than a dollar. Meaning that now GPS will be able to be added to mid-range low cost phones that it could not be added to before. Also with the small design of the chip, it will now be able to fit into smaller phones that it was not able to be fit into before. 

The BlueCore BC7830 is sampling today, but should be available in a broad number of devices by the end of this year. They predict that the technology will be shipped in over 428 million devices by 2010. Therefore if you're planning on splurging on a new phone in the next year, I would wait if I were you.