Manufacturer of the most popular GPS receiver chip Star III, SiRF, today announced that they started to implement features to construct certain that GPS-enabled mobile phones based on Android supply location awareness experience for the consumers, joining Google to promote Android.

SiRF is actively working on the Android platform to include some of the more innovative features of Secure User Plane Location (SUPL), a standards-based protocol that allows a mobile handset client to communicate with a SUPL Location Platform (SLP), including transport layer shield (TLS) for location privacy and multiple session capabilities to supply the

most compelling user experience. SiRF is plus implementing support for Android-based assisted GPS (A-GPS) handsets, including mobile station based (MSB) and mobile station assisted (MSA) positioning methods to ensure that the Android platform passes Open Mobile Alliance (OMA) and 3GPP conformance analyzing for third-party certification. SiRF intends to enable its customers to quickly bring Android-based handsets to market by providing Android platform support for a broad range of products based on the SiRFstarIII architecture, including its single-chip SiRFstarIII GSD3t high-performance satellite signal processor.

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Original post by Tim Robbins