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TeleNav GPS Navigator Comes to Motorola CLIQ – Video Demo!
Sep 29th
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Some of you may have seen the rumors floating around lately regarding the applications that will come preloaded on Motorola’s upcoming CLIQ phone, the company’s first Android device running on T-Mobile’s network. Well, today T-Mobile officially announced details surrounding the CLIQ, including the preloaded applications and the date you can preorder this very cool device. We’re happy to say that TeleNav GPS Navigator v5.5 will be one of the applications CLIQ owners will be able to fire up from the first day they get their hands on the device. The service will come with a free two-week trial so CLIQ users can try the application out first hand. After that, users can get turn-by-turn directions, real-time traffic information, more than 10 million points of interest and spoken address entry capabilities for $9.99/mo.
You can preorder the CLIQ starting Oct. 19 and it will be available in stores on Nov. 2, right in time for the holiday season. To give you a little taste of TeleNav GPS Navigator v5.5 running on the CLIQ, we took the phone out for a little drive around our headquarters here in Sunnyvale. As you’ll see in the video, the application for the CLIQ got us right to where we needed to go and did it in style, with cool features such as flipping to landscape mode when the physical keyboard slides out.
All of you T-Mobile subscribers be sure to check out the CLIQ and all of the preloaded apps including our TeleNav GPS Navigator v5.5. You won’t be disappointed.
Companies Use GPS to Save Gas
Jul 15th
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Author—Sal Dhanani – Co-Founder and Sr. Director of Marketing
As a consumer, you are no doubt feeling the hit to your wallet as gas prices continue to increase. But it’s not only consumers that have had to rethink their budgets – many businesses and government organizations have had to evaluate their operations costs in order minimize the impact of the "pain at the pump."
Believe it or not, many organizations are turning to GPS technology as a tool for saving gas. There are three main ways that GPS can help do this:
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Better dispatch/route mobile workers by knowing where they are all at during the day and optimizing their travel
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Give your mobile workers GPS navigation so they use the shortest routes and don’t get lost; our service also includes daily gas price listings so your employees can find the closest station with the cheapest gas
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Make sure your employees are not using company vehicles for personal errands
Newsday in New York ran an interesting story today on how some organizations in NY are using GPS to save on gas. Some of the customers profiled are TeleNav Track customers.
In fact, by using a GPS service like TeleNav Track, studies show that organizations can reduce fuel costs by an average of 13.2% (source: Aberdeen Group).
Motorola published a survey recently with similar findings. 50% of the organizations using GPS technology said that saving on gas was the most dramatic result of using the service.
If you’re a manager or business owner with a certain number of mobile workers, you should consider how GPS may help your company save on gas prices. As consumers, we will also reap the benefits since the price of gas for businesses impacts how much we pay for what those businesses produce.
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