ISRO helps chipmaker Qualcomm for enabling Indian GPS, NavIC, in smartphones

Bengaluru: Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) said it has assisted chipmaker Qualcomm in enabling navigation with the Indian constellation (NavIC) capability in their Snapdragon mobile chipset platforms.

The space agency said in a statement that these chipsets are being released by Qualcomm and this would help accelerate the adoption of NavIC by smartphone original equipment manufacturers (OEM).