A home-developed smartphone model with a positioning ability accurate to one meter outdoors has been announced. The prototype, the first of its kind in the world, was launched at a navigation and location service seminar in Wuhan city late last month. Most of the current smartphones equipped with GPS are accurate to 10 to 20 meters. The high accuracy of the prototype model is due to the combination of China's GPS-like Beidou system with Xihe cooperative real-time precise positioning system, said its developers.

(Source: China Daily)