Broadcom's new GPS chip will solve your indoor tracking woes, improve battery life

Not to worry, Broadcom has you covered there as well, indicating the new chip makes better use of your phones accelerometer, gyroscope, magnetometer, etc., to do a decent job of indoor navigation even without the new Bluetooth beacons. So you should be navigating around your local sports arena or super mall from the get go.
Finally, Broadcom has added NFC into the GPS chip. This would certainly make it easier to swap in an aftermarket battery than the solution in the Galaxy Nexus. It should also allow contactless sharing and payments to be implemented at a lower cost, meaning it should speed up the number of NFC-enabled smartphones we see shipped.
How soon will Broadcom’s new chip be residing in an actual smartphone you can purchase? Broadcom says the chips are shipping as of today, so you can probably look forward to seeing the new chips in the hot and trendy handsets that ship in the fourth quarter of 2012.
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source: Broadcom via The Verge