Comments on: GPS Players Aim to Navigate the Mobile Market

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Fri, 05 Sep 2008 22:05:55 +0000

[...] GPS Players Aim to Navigate the Mobile Market [...]

By: chris

chris — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 18:24:53 +0000

I’ve used both and, in my opinion, TeleNAV is crap compared to the standalone GPS navigators.

By: charlie

charlie — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 20:39:03 +0000

wow. This article isn’t worth the paper it is printed on.

TeleNAV was the leader in getting US mobile companies to bring nav to mobile users (albeit at strange fees). TomTom doesn’t support its Nav system on new mobile systems and hasn’t since last year. Who knows what the real deal with TomTom and iphone will be — somewhere there with Duke Nukem, I supose. Yes, Garmin has been good about getting software out to mobiles. But that is worth one sentence rather than one paragraph talking about the imaginary nuviphone.

By: Jack Johnson

Jack Johnson — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 15:44:01 +0000

I agree with this article that the future of GPS depends on wireless internet services. The equipment itself won't sell, but if services that use GPS start to become more mainstream (as they already are), GPS will son become a "standard feature" in every mobile phone. I've liked the applications that integrate social networks with GPS (such as Loopt), it adds even more value to the user.

By: Mary Beth-TeleNav

Mary Beth-TeleNav — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 14:47:03 +0000

One company you didn’t mention is TeleNav. We were the first company to launch a phone-based GPS navigation service back in 2003 and our service is now available on phones from all of the major US carriers as well as many in Canada, Europe, Latin America and China. It is just like having a standalone GPS device with features like 3D maps, traffic alerts, gas prices and 10 million business listings. To your point, many analyst firms (Canalys, In-Stat, IDC, etc.) are monitoring the growth of GPS phone navigation.