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Gartner Cool Vendor
Gartner Cool Vendor.
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[{"type":"text","content":"\n RNS Number : 9705P Sarantel Group PLC 02 April 2009 \n \n2 April 2009\n\nSarantel Group PLC\n('Sarantel' or 'the Company')\n\n\nGartner names Sarantel 'Cool Vendor' for its high performance GPS antenna technology that enables location based services\n\nSarantel's technology selected for positional accuracy and impact on battery performance\n\nSarantel (AIM: SLG), manufacturer of filtering antennas for mobile and wireless devices, was named as one of five 'Cool Vendors in Mobile and Wireless 2009' in a new and influential report from Gartner Group ('Gartner'). \n\nGartner defines a 'Cool Vendor' as a company whose technology is innovative, impactful and intriguing, with a strong emphasis on enabling new possibilities. \n\nGartner highlighted Sarantel's ceramic antenna technology because of its improved signal quality, which enables superior accuracy and more efficient use of battery power - essential features for the new generation of GPS-equipped handheld devices. Gartner believes that this that will enable a new wave of location-based consumer services ('LBS'). \n\n'The increasing availability of GPS in mobile phones is creating exciting new commercial possibilities in location-based services,' explains Annette Zimmermann, Senior Research Analyst at Gartner. 'Mobile-device vendors that want to offer LBS need to consider positional accuracy, usage model and battery life, since these are vital aspects of the positive consumer experience essential for mass adoption and continued innovation.'\n\nSarantel's recently launched LBS Pro antenna supports the mobile industry's changing GPS requirements through the following benefits:\n\nLess battery drainage: \nThe antenna's GeoHelix technology, with more than 300 International patents, enables better GPS chip performance and lower energy consumption than with commodity antennas. This is mainly due to the antenna's superior omnidirectional 'gain pattern' which enables it to quickly locate a large range of satellites, even in urban settings. The longer it takes for an antenna to locate satel...