TeleNav Released for Treos
TeleNav have announced that TeleNav GPS Navigator is now available on the recently-launched Palm Treo 680 smartphone along with the other Treo smartphones currently available from Palm in the U.S. TeleNav GPS Navigator offers unlimited turn-by-turn voice and on-screen driving directions, pedestrian mode for use while walking, full-color moving maps, information and directions to more than 10 million business listings including frequently updated fuel prices.
“The availability of TeleNav GPS Navigator for our current U.S. Palm Treo family means our customers can experience the convenience and value of mobile navigation no matter which Treo they prefer or what network they are on,” said Mark Bercow, senior vice president, business development, Palm, Inc. “TeleNav’s proven experience in developing cutting-edge location-based services means we can feel confident that our customers are getting one of the most dynamic, feature-rich and cost-effective solutions available.”
The TeleNav service features voice and on-screen turn-by-turn directions. Users can also preview their routes before they begin driving and specify navigation preferences including highways and streets. It also has a business and fuel finder and full color moving maps with automatic updates.
Treo users interested in activating TeleNav GPS Navigator can do so by visiting www.telenav.com, calling TeleNav at 1 88 TeleNav 4 (1-888-353-6284), or by contacting their wireless carrier. A Bluetooth GPS receiver is required to use TeleNav GPS Navigator on Palm Treo smartphones. Ongoing subscription to the service ranges from $5.99 per month for up to 10 trips or $9.99 a month for unlimited trips (prices vary dependent on carriers and a carrier data plan also required). The TeleNav GPS Navigator subscription includes free, automatic and ongoing map and Point of Interest (POI) content updates.
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How good is the coverage?
My question is this: How good are the maps compared to TomTom 6? I have TomTom 5, and there are a great many streets missing in my town. I am thinking of upgrading, but may go with TeleNav instead if the maps beat the TomTom 6 ones.
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RE: How good is the coverage?
Serious question - of what use is GPS for Joe Normal?
And, in general, totally - and I mean totally - useless for day to day driving.
If I live in my car (or truck), or if I'm in a plane, those guys are useful - no doubt about it.
But what if I don't live in my car. What if I drive to work, back again, to the store, back again, and once or twice per year take a drive to a vacation?
What do I use a GPS for THEN?
No kidding - whenever I travel from point A to point B I ==always== preplan the trip. Don't you? With Google Maps, etc, I can even print out maps showing the key locations - which I do if I'm driving on vacation any distance.
If I'm "going downtown" and thinking I might want to eat then I'll find all those places BEFORE I get in my car and make a decision on the type/price I might want to spend - and that's a rare event ANYWAY.
So what's a GPS =good= for, in GENERAL?
RE: Serious question - of what use is GPS for Joe Normal?
For a vacation, sure you can plan your route to the desired destination, but what about when you get there? Surely you have to figure out how to get to that restaurant or beach or whatever it is you want to visit. Having a GPS makes it easy to get where you want to.
If you approach use of GPS for your normal daily commutes, work, store, etc, then it has little non-gadget value. However, if you think about all those times you go to a new place that you don't know exactly how to get to it becomes an invaluable time saver.
RE: Serious question - of what use is GPS for Joe Normal?
ditto. a good, Japanese built-in factory NAV is a beautiful thing. you don't realize what you're missing until you have one.
RE: Serious question - of what use is GPS for Joe Normal?
The time I like having the GPS is for hiking, trail running, training, that kind of thing. I developed some crude software that runs on a Garmin iQue and lets me set up training courses and track my times on them. One of these days I need to clean it up and release it.
David Beers
Pikesoft Mobile Computing
www.pikesoft.com/blog
RE: Serious question - of what use is GPS for Joe Normal?
Exacto-mundo. Not to mention it makes it a lot easier to stay focused on the road if you don't have to peer over at a hastily hand-written list of directions every other minute - especially in city traffic!
It'd also be invaluable for courier drivers and delivery people who were unfamiliar with the area, I reckon. Personally, I would have killed for my current GPS setup when I was delivering pizzas. (of course, had I been able to afford it at the time, I probably wouldn't have been delivering pizzas in the first place, but that's beside the point....)
Tim
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Treo 270 ---> Treo 650
RE: Serious question - of what use is GPS for Joe Normal?
I guess some ancient pilot-training I underwent set my own preferences in cement - I =always= pre-plan. Lol!
YMMV indeed!
RE: Serious question - of what use is GPS for Joe Normal?
I would guess that it varies by locality--it's easy for me out here to know almost all the roads within 15 miles of my home, but if I lived in a city I might find it harder to navigate by the seat of my pants.
RE: Serious question - of what use is GPS for Joe Normal?
David Beers
Pikesoft Mobile Computing
www.pikesoft.com/blog
RE: Serious question - of what use is GPS for Josie Normal?
You MUST be kidding, hengeem. Or else you've never used a GPS. Do you know how anxious some people get over the possibility of getting lost when driving in unfamiliar territory? A GPS frees them of that (oft-overwhelming) fear of being lost. It also allows users to become a LOT more spontaneous in their travels, knowing that they can wander around as much as they want to, yet will be able to get back on track to a destination with a touch of a button.
The abilities to accurately calculate time-to-destination and find nearby gas stations, etc. can be extremely helpful as well.
I had hoped Garmin's GPS PalmOS models would have evolved to integrate data from applications like Zagat To Go and the Address book to allow instant creation of user-definable Points Of Interest and allow for tap-and-go mapping, but now that Garmin is dumping PalmOs it looks like that will go down as even more unrealized potential of the PalmOS platform. Oh well.
Cellphone, PDA and GPS are probably the 3 most useful gadgets I've purchased over the past decade. In an ideal world one could combine them with few compromises. Unfortunately, for now it appears that a dedicated GPS still makes a lot more sense than a PDA or cellphone-based GPS. Of course, Google's gonna change all that in 2007...
TVoR
RE: Serious question - of what use is GPS for Joe Normal?
Indeed. Were I running a company that sold maps, I'd be afraid of Google Maps. Very afraid.
RE: Serious question - of what use is GPS for Joe Normal?
> of getting lost when driving in unfamiliar territory? A GPS
> frees them of that...
No argument from em there!
In fact, my question explicitly (well sorta) said: "In a strange area, great!"
My whole point was a GPS appears to be a VERY intermittently-"great"-aid and an almost-always redundant and useless - but still cool! - toy for Joe Normal.
RE: Serious question - of what use is GPS for Joe Normal?
Obviously, how useful GPS is depends on where you live + how much you travel to unfamiliar areas. Here in The Bay Area GPS is extremely useful for many people. On the other hand if you live in Backwoods, Georgia or Dumba$$, North Dakota or Banjo, Kansas GPS may indeed be practically useless.
TVoR
New GPS Software for PALM OS
Take a look here:
http://www.emtac.com/index.html
Gil
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Nice, but...
That said, dynamic map updates and the other features this has sounds really nice. The GUI looks as good as TomTom and the subscription is somewhat reasonable but odd - what constitutes a "trip" and if you reroute or get a phone call is the restart another "trip" (some shareware trials like CSFAX do this).
This program is a start in the right direction - adding live dynamic updates to GPS - but it does not belong on a cell phone given the present technology. Too many pedestrians are maimed and die in my city because of distracted drivers, this technology will only increase the carnage.
And have they even noticed the "slight" lag on the NVFS Treos which sorta puts a damper on any sort of practical use of this on the device even if it WERE safe...