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Pay it Forward: TeleNav Anniversary Contest Winners!
Oct 2nd
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Thanks to everyone who participated in our anniversary celebration by entering our Pay it Forward Anniversary contest. Below is the list of winners. They each will receive two free subscriptions of TeleNav GPS Navigator for one year – one for them and one for their lucky friend! We’ll reach out to the winners via email with information on claiming the prize.
For the rest of you, we will run more contests soon so please stay tuned here for another chance!
- Nathan Parker
- Michael Rose
- Jarrod
- Larry Flatt
- Cameron Smith
Big Contest Still Open . . . And an Inside Look Into TeleNav
Sep 24th
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Time is ticking away for you to win one of the biggest prizes we’ve ever given away here on the TeleNav Blog. You only have four days left to enter to win a full year of TeleNav service for you and a friend. The season of giving is quickly approaching, so why not get a head start and hook one of your friends or family members up with GPS navigation on their mobile phone. Just think, they’ll never be able to blame getting lost as the reason they missed your wedding again.
So how do I enter you ask? It’s very easy. All you have to do is click on THIS LINK and visit the original contest post. Leave a comment as to why your friend deserves (or in most cases NEEDS) TeleNav’s GPS navigation application on their phone and we’ll select the best five entries. As I mentioned above, the winners get a year of service for themselves and the friend or family member they nominated. To all of you couples out there, this is your chance to finally end one of the arguments that has plagued humankind for centuries.
But wait, there’s more. As part of our extended 10 Year Anniversary Celebration, we thought it would be great to give readers of our blog an inside peek into what life is like inside the friendly confines of the TeleNav offices. So, we took some time to visit with employees in our Seattle and Sunnyvale offices to shoot a brief video and ask them a few questions about what it’s like being part of the TeleNav family. Oh, and keep an eye out for a special edition of “TeleNav Idol” with our own versions of Randy, Paula and Simon (we later had our own Ellen announce that she was replacing Paula). We hope you enjoy this short video on life at TeleNav and if you want to see more, you can view some fun pictures of BBQs, team outings and other events at TeleNav here. Now go enter that contest!
Video: TeleNav GPS Navigator in 2002 – our first color version!; Contest Reminder
Sep 18th
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...This week, we’re continuing to celebrate our 10 year anniversary. If you haven’t already entered to win a year of TeleNav GPS Navigator for you and a friend, don’t forget! You can enter by adding a comment on this blog post about why someone else should win. It’s that easy!
In the meantime, we thought we’d share with you a video of one of the very early versions of TeleNav GPS Navigator. This is from our first color version (remember when most phones where black and white??) from 2002. It’s on a Nextel i95 phone and you can see the difference in our service from only a few years ago and now. Awww…we were so young then….
The audio is not good in this video so mute your speakers before you press play.
Win a Year of TeleNav for You and a Friend – It’s Easy!
Sep 16th
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TeleNav GPS Navigator on the T-Mobile myTouch 3G
We all know someone who seems to always be getting lost or arriving to events “fashionably late.” Well, here’s your chance to help that person out and give them the gift of GPS navigation right on their phone. Better yet, you don’t have to pay for the gift and you’ll even get it for yourself too! That’s right, we’re giving away a total of TEN (two for each winning entry) one-year subscriptions to TeleNav’s GPS navigation applications including TeleNav GPS Navigator and applications we develop for our carrier partners including AT&T Navigator, Alltel Navigation and Sprint Navigation. That means if your friend has an Apple iPhone, T-Mobile myTouch 3G or G1, BlackBerry or any of the hundreds of devices we support, you can hook them up.
It’s easy to submit as well. To enter to win, visit MONDAY’S BLOG POST and leave a comment explaining why your friend deserves to win one of the GPS navigation applications we develop. Full contest details are available for review in the post as well.
While you’re deciding which of your friends is most deserving of your generosity, here are a couple of fun mobile phone facts*. As you may know, TeleNav celebrated it’s 10th anniversary last week and we thought we’d show you how things have changed from the day our doors opened in 1999 to now. Enjoy!
- Top Five Carriers in 1999 – AT&T, Vodaphone Airtouch, SBC Wireless, Bell Atlantic Mobile, Bell South Mobile Systems.
- Top Five Carriers Today – Verizon Wireless, AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile, Alltel
- Total Wireless Subscribers in 1999 – 86 million
- Total Wireless Subscribers Today – 270.3 million (entering 2009)
- Total Wireless Revenues in 1999 – $40 billion
- Total Wireless Revenues Today – $148 billion
- Cell sites in the US in 1999 – 81,698
- Cell sites in the US Today – 192,068
- Average number of minutes used per month in 1999 - 242
- Average number of minutes used per month in 2009 – 800
- Average monthly mobile phone bill in 1999 – $41.24
- Average monthly mobile phone bill in 2009 – $50.07 (at end of 2008)
Cleary times have changed in the past 10 years. Now, go enter that contest and scoop up some free GPS navigation service for yourself and a friend.
* Data referenced from Telephony Magazine, the FCC, CTIA, RCR Wireless, IE Market Research and JD Power.
The TeleNav Anniversary Celebration Continues – It’s Contest Time
Sep 14th
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...As I mentioned in a post from last week, we celebrated our 10th anniversary last Wednesday and we just can’t seem to let the celebration end. We had a wonderful anniversary party over the weekend (stay tuned, video of the festivities to come) and are continuing to let the good times roll with a number of exciting videos, contests and fun facts over the course of the next week (heck, maybe even the next two!)
When we were deciding the best way to kick off our extended celebration, we thought there could be nothing better than hearing from some of our friends. So we put together this short video of birthday wishes from some editors and bloggers who’ve used TeleNav products over the years and have covered us during the ups and downs. It’s quite the assortment and very entertaining, so we think you’ll enjoy it.
We also wanted to kick off the celebration with one of the biggest contests we’ve held here on our blog.
It’s all about paying it forward, so we’re asking you to submit a comment below explaining why someone you know deserves to receive TeleNav service on their phone.
It could be someone who is constantly getting lost, a frequent traveler, or someone who is always arriving late. The comments will be evaluated by a team here at TeleNav and the TOP FIVE submissions will receive ONE YEAR OF TELENAV SERVICE FOR THEMSELVES AND THE PERSON THEY SUBMITTED. Check out the full-contest details here: telenav-blog-contest-rules_final We’re very excited to see how creative you can be with your submissions.
Good luck and thanks again to Todd Haselton (LAPTOP Magazine), Wilson Rothman (Gizmodo), Al Sacco (CIO.com), David Ciccone (Mobility Today), Nan Palmero (BlackBerry Cool), Matt Miller (ZDNet and Nokia Experts) and Greg Kumparak (Mobile Crunch) for sending us a Happy Birthday video!
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