If you find yourself doing a lot of last-minute driving, Proxpro is running a closed beta of its travel app Prompt which determines where your next calendared appointment is, determines the fastest route based on congestion and your current location, ballparks when you should leave and gives an estimated travel time. The only downside right now is that it’s U.S. only, but it still sounds like a pretty handy app, and it’s hard to argue with free. Thanks Josep!
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Proxpro offering free GPS-based traffic info
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If BlackBerry Maps isn’t cutting it for your GPS-enabled BB, there’s some new navigation software from GPS giant Garmin available for a cool $99.99. You get the whole nine yards on this deal, including turn-by-turn instructions, points of interest, and traffic information. Generally these things have a monthly charge and deployed through a carrier, but a one-time, unlimited-usage model certainly has its charm. They’ve also got a pricier product available if you’re packing a BlackBerry sans GPS.
The Weather Network and French-speakering counterpart MétéoMédia have released WeatherEye Mobile and TrafficEye mobile, which do pretty much what you’d expect. WeatherEye offer current conditions as well as short-term and long-term forecast for cities in Canada and other locations. TrafficEye is currently only available for the Toronto area, but the two companies plan to expand the traffic maps, traffic camera images, and other features to more cities in Canada. Both apps are ad-supported and free, and available in English and French versions, so check ‘em out.
TrafficGauge has announced that they now support the BlackBerry Pearl, Curve, and 8800 for their eponymous traffic monitoring software. The app monitors freeway traffic, color-coding it for light, medium, and heavy traffic. It’s only available for select cities in the US, so if you live elsewhere you’ll have to use one of the other options.
After cruising BlackBerry Cool to Go today, we noticed that the US traffic alerts that were added not too long ago have been expanded to include the United Kingdom thanks to BBC and Highway.gov.uk. This update includes trains, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland and 6 channels for London alone. If you can find any reliable RSS feeds for traffic in your neck of the woods, drop a link here, and we’re sure the Viigo dudes will take a look.
MapQuest’s Navigator has been updated to version 5.0, including new features like gas prices and station locations, guides to what’s going on in your city, and live traffic updates. Audio turn-by-turn driving instructions is also new, along with a new interface that lets you switch between front-facing and above-ground views. Although that’s all sounding pretty old hat compared to the competition, MapQuest is also letting you search locations, plot routes and push them all to your handheld from the desktop. Not too shabby. They’re asking $4.99/month until the end of December, which is half off their usual rate. If you’re looking to try out the GPS on that newfangled BlackBerry 8130, you can sign up to Navigator over here, or get more details here.
