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AT&T launches AT&T Navigator
AT&T has teamed up with TeleNav to launch a branded GPS service on a wide range of smartphones. It comes with everything you’ve come to expect from a GPS suite: written and spoken direction, access to points of interest, even gas prices and traffic information. Uniquely to BlackBerrys, speech recognition is also available, allowing you speak the name of a business or address for turn-by-turn directions. The whole thing comes with a $9.99/month price tag, and is available on the 8310, 8800 and 8820. They’ll be demoing the whole deal in booth #3428 at CTIA, so give us some impressions if you get a chance to check it out.
Posted by Devin Kent in News, Software Release
Comments [5 Responses]
April 2nd, 2008 at 2:16 pm
Is this different that the TeleNav service that’s been on the Blackberries for some time now?
April 3rd, 2008 at 12:23 am
This is available right now as an OTA.
It is a substantial upgrade to the 5.1 Telenav software.
It includes a day/night mode.
The option of selecting different voices (at a cost) for your turn-by-turn directions. The Swami voice i’m sure is going to piss some people off.
A business ratings system
The ability to send your GPS location to other Telenav users.
A greatly improved interface with automatic and very intuitive 2D overhead and 3D map switching
The ability to avoid HOV (carpool) lanes. I thank you, my wallet thanks you
Press the space bar and the voice navigation directions are given to you again
Voice destination selection without having to make a phone call. It actually works pretty damn good. I’ve programmed the side button to perform this function.
Basically a whole bunch of changes you might not have thought you really needed, but actually do.
I’ve been pretty hard on AT&T as of late, but this sofware really surprised me. Great job AT&T and Telenav. Highly recommended. The GPS software to beat, period.
April 9th, 2008 at 7:35 am
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April 29th, 2008 at 8:11 am
I have a Blackberry with AT&T Navigator 1.5.1 installed. It has been working fine until the last two days and everytime I try to access it I get “Network Error” or “unable to reach server, please try again later.” The accuracy level says 13 miles. This is not the kind of problems I need with this device when I rely on it for accuracy and locations.
Are you having some kind of problems that I am not aware of? Please answer my email ASAP.
Thanks
May 5th, 2008 at 6:48 am
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