So here’s a nice treat for all of you on a Friday evening. We got our hands on an early version of T-Mobile’s upcoming BlackBerry Bold 9700 and took some time to shoot a brief, sneak-peek video of TeleNav GPS Navigator running on the phone. While there are a number of videos of the phone posted out there on that “series of connected tubes” the rest of us like to call the Internet, I think we’re the first blog to deliver this exclusive demo of our navigation app running on the phone. That’s right, consider it our little gift to you before you head out and pick up the phone next Monday, Nov. 16. If you’re thinking about picking up the phone, I can personally say that it’s a very impressive device. The folks over at RIM did away with the trackball and introduced a new touchpad, which worked very well for me while I was testing the device. The phone’s also very sleek in terms of design, so you can definitely count on it making your friends jealous when you pull it.
As you can see in the video, not only do I assume that all of you out there watching are “party people,” but TeleNav GPS Navigator does a great job of getting me and my camera man Ryan to the local Bank of America. Some of the features I bring up in the video include the ability to share addresses with your contacts, day/night mode, smart spell recognition and the quality of the text-to-speech function.
Enjoy the video and let us know what you think of TeleNav GPS Navigator on the new BlackBerry Bold 9700 or any of the other phones we support. We always appreciate your feedback. Have a great weekend.
I have to admit that I’ve barely paid for my Asian adventure, but I’m such a travel bug that I’ve already started planning for my next trip. I’ve always wanted to go to New Orleans and this December I’m finally going.
As always, TeleNav has been a huge help to me in planning my trip. Since I’m planning to stay in the heart of the French Quarter and I won’t be renting a car for the duration of my trip, I’ve been making good use of TeleNav Maps to scout out locations within walking distance from my hotel.
The thing I’m looking forward to most in New Orelans is definitely the food, so my first priority was to make sure I’d be able to walk to Cafe du Monde for their famous beignets and cafe au lait with chicory. From beignets to the French Old Market, TeleNav Maps has helped me find everything I need for a great food lover’s vacation, including a couple of restaurants by the famed Emeril Lagasse. I’m still on the lookout for the best gumbo in the French Quarter so please let me know if you have any suggestions!
Of course New Orleans has a lot to offer aside from the food. I’m excited to take a mule drawn carriage through the French Quarter, listen to jazz at Jackson Square, explore the bayous of Jean Lafitte National Park and soak in the history of Oak Alley Plantation, not to mention the fabulous NOLA night life! And who knows, maybe I’ll even see a ghost at New Orleans Cemetery #1. Be sure to check back in January to find out!
AT&T and Pantech launched a new device this week, the Pantech Reveal, which is Pantech’s first “single-slider” phone. Overall, the phone has a nice feel to it and the inclusion of two key pads, the number pad when the slider is closed and the full keyboard when it’s open, makes it very handy to use. You can quickly dial a number with the slider closed and easily slide out the keyboard for messaging purposes. But perhaps the best feature in our humble opinion is that the phone comes preloaded with AT&T Navigator (powered by TeleNav).
We decided to take the Pantech Reveal out for a little spin and test some of the features included in AT&T Navigator on the phone. And because sharing is caring, we thought we’d bring along a video camera to show you the application in action. As you can see, it was very easy for me to find the destination I wanted to drive to and head out on my way. Some of the features you’ll see in the video include onscreen and voice turn-by-turn directions, text-to-speech (i.e. turn right on Kifer Road, not just turn right), real-time traffic alerts and the ease in which the POI database can be used to find a location.
Enjoy the video and if you picked up a Reveal or are planning to, let us know what you think of AT&T Navigator on the phone.
Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past few months, you’ve probably heard a lot of talk about the HTC Hero on Sprint. With the number of mobile phones that come out each year, it seems like only a few phones generate significant buzz before they launch and the Hero is one of those phones. Sprint launched the Hero yesterday and you guessed it, Sprint Navigation (powered by TeleNav) is available on the phone.
I got my hands on the Hero prior to the launch and took it for a spin and I have to say, I was really impressed with the phone’s performance and overall look and feel. While I was giving the phone a test drive, I decided to shoot this brief video of Sprint Navigation guiding me around here in Sunnyvale. As you can see, the app looks great on the phone and got me exactly where I wanted to go.
In the video you’ll see me using and mentioning a number of features built into Sprint Navigation including a POI search to find the bank I was navigating too. I also mention some of the other categories available in the more than 10 million POIs including gas by price, air ports and Wi-Fi hotspots. I also used the app in landscape mode and decided to try and throw it off by missing some turns to show how quickly it was able to calculate a new route and get me heading in the right direction.
I hope you enjoy this brief video and if you’ve already picked up a new Hero or are planning to, be sure to check out Sprint Navigation. And when you do, don’t hesitate to tell us what you think.
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.
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!
If you live anywhere near the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge and have not already left town for the long Labor Day weekend, then you are likely going to be one of the thousands of people impacted by the Bay Bridge closure this weekend (follow updates on Twitter).
In what organizers are calling an “unprecedented construction feat,” the bridge is closed from now until 5am on Tuesday in order to bring the entire structure up to current earthquake standards.
While it’s closed, drivers are encouraged to drive alternative routes and/or take public transit. But do you know what the alternative routes are?
In order to help our customers get around this weekend, TeleNav has modified our routing so that you will automatically be directed around the Bay Bridge. Whether you are using TeleNav GPS Navigator, AT&T Navigator, Sprint Navigation, Alltel Navigation or any of our other connected navigation services, we will guide you around the bridge and hopefully help you avoid some of the traffic hassles of the closure.
We love that our connected GPS service allows us to offer these real-time modifications and updates so you don’t have to worry about accidentally turning down the wrong road and getting stuck in traffic. Let’s let the people with the standalone GPS devices or the basic map programs who are stuck relying on static maps sit and wait for the bridge to open.
If you’re in the area and use our service this weekend, please let us know! We love to get the feedback.
Are you a fan of TeleNav GPS Navigator? If so, here’s your chance to let the world know. TeleNav GPS Navigator is currently in contention for CTIA’s “Hottest Web Pick Award.” Share your love for TeleNav GPS Navigator by casting a vote.
All you have to do is visit the TeleNav entry on the contest page and select “Mark as a Favorite” in the top right. It’s that simple. Voting ends October 5, so cast your vote now and be sure to tell your friends (that is of course, if they are fans of TeleNav GPS Navigator too).
Thanks for your votes and we have fingers crossed that we’ll come out on top.
TeleNav GPS Navigator v5.5 on the T-Mobile myTouch 3G
We’ve had a great week giving away subscriptions to TeleNav GPS Navigator in support of our launch on the new T-Mobile myTouch 3G, but sadly, all good things must come to an end. If you haven’t been able to follow the blog this week, I’ll provide a brief recap. On Tuesday we announced that TeleNav GPS Navigator v5.5 would be available for T-Mobile’s myTouch 3G, an Android-based device that hit stores on Wednesday. Check out Mary Beth’s post from Monday night for details as well as a video demo we shot of TeleNav GPS Navigator v5.5 in action. To celebrate this launch, we’ve been giving away a six-month subscription to TeleNav GPS Navigator (or one of the navigation applications from our carrier partners) to one winner of our trivia contest each day.
For those of you who haven’t won the daily contest, the application is available now on our Web store for $9.99/mo. with a free 30-day trial. So, all of you who’ve already picked up your new myTouch 3G, head to the store and try the application for yourself. The application will turn your myTouch 3G into your very own personal navigation device complete with real-time traffic information, spoken directions, more than 10 million business listings with categories such as Wi-Fi hotspots, gas by price, ATMs and voice destination entry.
Here’s today’s contest question. The first person to comment on this post with the correct answer to the following question will win the prize. Previous winners from this week’s contest are not eligible for a second prize.
- In the video demo included with Mary Beth’s post from Monday, what is the name of the first street I turn on? I say the street name when mentioning that the application provides full text-to-speech with spoken street names. HINT: A well known NASCAR driver with the last name Sorenson shares the same name.
TeleNav GPS Navigator v5.5 on the T-Mobile myTouch 3G
We’re keeping the giveaways running here on the TeleNav blog in support of our recent launch of TeleNav GPS Navigator v5.5 for the new T-Mobile myTouch 3G which is in stores now. This is a great looking Android-based device and as you can see from the video included in Mary Beth’s post from Monday, TeleNav GPS Navigator looks great running on the phone. A free 30-day trial of TeleNav GPS Navigator for the T-Mobile myTouch 3G is available now on our online store. The trial provides you with turn-by-turn onscreen and spoken directions, voice destination entry, access to more than 10 million business listings, gas by price search and real-time traffic information with one-button rerouting. If you’re satisfied with the trial, after the 30-day period you can purchase the application for just $9.99/mo.
Here’s today’s contest question. The first person to comment on this post with the correct answer to the following question will win the prize. Previous winners from this week’s contest are not eligible for a second prize.
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