Smartphone GPS accuracy could jump from 5m to 30cm in 2018

Smartphones have revolutionized the way with travel thanks to their integrated GPS systems. With apps like Google Maps, getting lost is a rarity. Coming in 2018, a new smartphone GPS chip is set to make these systems even better, with accuracy increasing from the 5 meters to just 30 centimeters.
At the ION GNSS+ conference in Portland last week, wireless technology company Broadcom Limited announced the new chip — known as the BCM47755 — and said it had already been included in the designs for some upcoming (and unnamed) smartphones.
This news was delivered by IEEE Spectrum, a magazine from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, which noted that the chip would also be more energy efficient, consuming “half the power of today’s generation of chips.” Further, you can also expect the GPS functionality to continue even “in a city’s concrete canyons.”