Telenav On G1

TeleNav just announced that their popular GPS navigation software TeleNav GPS Navigator for T-Mobile G1. It will be available starting February 24th. The software will support both landscape and portrait modes and will provide 3D turn-by-turn navigation, speech recognition, traffic alerts with rerouting, weather updates, restaurant reviews, gas prices, and over 10 million business listings. It also lets you preplan your trips online through My TeleNav and use their browser plug-in to save addresses directly from other web sites.

First month free and then it costs $10/month. More live pics here.

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Ad Supported Gps Navigation Out In Portugal

LocatioNet Systems teamed up with mobile operator Optimus to launch the “amAze” service in Portugal.

amAze is an over the air GPS navigation service that will be offered to the Optimus users in Portugal for free but supported with ads.

It seems to offer all the features you’d expect from a paid service such as full navigation and mapping, local search, weather, speed traps alerts, traffic and more. It works on all Java phones as well as WinMo devices. Apparently support for Android and iPhone platforms is to follow.

Check out all their short demo videos here.

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Becker Traffic Assist Pro Z 302 Truck Navigation

Our European penpal Becker has come with a new GPS navigation system for trucks. It is called Becker Traffic Assist Pro Z 302.

Becker Traffic Assist Pro Z 302, is their first mobile truck navigation system. The truck drivers can define profiles that are tailored specifically to his/her vehicle and payload. This profile includes details such as height, width, length, axle number, and weight which is then analyzed to calculate the optimal route. Impassable roads, tunnels and bridges are excluded depending on the profile data and possible, alternative routes are offered for selection in a map view so that the driver can choose the best route for him.

The device also includes a remote controller (see photo above) which would especially be helpful if you were not able to reach the windshield. In case you’re not following – this is a GPS navigation system for trucks. Other features include bluetooth connectivity, 3D buildings and landscapes, text-to-speech, TMC traffic updates, and of course a relatively large 4.3″ touch screen.

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Tele Atlas Adds Reality To Navigation With 3d

Tele Atlas announced this morning that it will be adding 3D Advanced City Models to its portfolio of mapping innovations. Advanced City Models use BLOM aerial imagery to create a photorealistic map that crosses over more accurately to the real world, in essence making navigation simpler. For now, it looks like Tele Atlas will focus mainly on big city centers with a release in Europe next month, followed by more cities in subsequent quarterly releases.

The TomTom-owned digital mapping powerhouse says it expects to cover hundreds of cities with Advanced City Models in Europe, North America and Asia Pacific by 2010. Tele Atlas maps are used on TomTom, Mio and Pioneer portable navigation devices, as well as Sony’s PSP and Google’s navigation products.

Tomtom Xl 340s Live

TomTom just announced TomTom XL 340S Live. This is a mid-range GPS navigation system from the company with connected services. It will go for $300 which will include 3 months live connected services which we just mentioned. These include things like local search from Google, real-time traffic updates, weather information, and the cheapest fuel prices around.

TomTom XL 340S Live has a 4.3″ touch screen and is quite similar to the TomTom XL 740 Live. However it lacks bluetooth connectivity for hands free calling – and the live services are on AT&T’s network.

Another cool feature with this new GPS navigation system is that it uses TomTom QuickGPSfix which utilizes A-GPS to get a satellite location fix faster.

The connected services for TomTom XL 340S Live will cost $10/month after the first month.

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Pioneer Avic-z3

Pioneer AVIC-Z3 is a double DIN in-dash HDD based GPS navigation system. It is the most expensive from the manufacturer, with an MSRP of $1800 (however Amazon has Pioneer AVIC-Z3 for $1310). It has some impressive navigation features, so let’s go over those in more detail:

• point addressing: many destinations are geocoded to a precise point instead of an address range.
• 3D landmarks
• high resolution display of traffic conditions
• voice recognition of POIs without having to choose a category
• text-to-speech
• compatible with XM NAVTRAFFIC for live traffic updates

That’s all for navigation but that’s not what Pioneer AVIC-Z3 can do. The device is bluetooth capable so you can pair up a compatible phone. There’s a 30GB HDD, 10GB of which is dedicated to your tunes; and can be accessed with your voice. You can also bring your iPod in and control it using the 7″ touchscreen. Optical drive allows you to play DVDs, rip CDs, and play bunch of other media formats.

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Samsung Highlight Does Gps Navigation

T-Mobile and Samsung just recently announced the T-Mobile Highlight – a pretty sleek phone with GPS navigation capabilities.

That’s not all though – one of the smallest 3G touchscreen devices on the market – the Highlight T749 offers high speed connection (HSDPA) , 3MP camera, bluetooth, and a microSD card slot.

For only $150 – after a 2 year contract and a $50 mail in rebate – you can browse the internets with a full HTML browser on T-Mo’s 3G network and use the pre-installed GPS navigation software from TeleNav.

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Samsung Highlight Does Gps Navigation

T-Mobile and Samsung just recently announced the T-Mobile Highlight – a pretty sleek phone with GPS navigation capabilities.

That’s not all though – one of the smallest 3G touchscreen devices on the market – the Highlight T749 offers high speed connection (HSDPA) , 3MP camera, bluetooth, and a microSD card slot.

For only $150 – after a 2 year contract and a $50 mail in rebate – you can browse the internets with a full HTML browser on T-Mo’s 3G network and use the pre-installed GPS navigation software from TeleNav.

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Nokia 6710 Navigator

Nokia just added the new Nokia 6710 to its Navigator series phones. 6710 uses the new integration of Nokia Maps with Ovi which allows users to pre-plan their journey on a PC and sync with their device.

Nokia which currently owns Navteq - one of the leading digital mappers in the world - is pretty much competing with stand alone GPS navigation systems with Nokia 6710, offering drive and walk navigation, full regional maps, a dedicated navigator key, a touch area for easy zooming, and a large 2.6″ that’s bright enough to be visible under sunlight.

Other features of Nokia Maps, which is now at version 3.0 include high-resolution aerial images, 3D landmarks for over 200 cities, terrain maps, weather service, premium travel and events content and traffic and safety warnings.

Nokia 6710 Navigator will be available starting third quarter of this year for about 300 €.

Here are some specs for the 6710:

• Dimensions: 104.8 x 50.1 x 14.9 mm
• Resolution: 320 x 240 pixels (QVGA)
• Ambient light detector
• 2 GB MicroSD card (with pre-loaded mega region maps)
• 950mAh battery
• Bluetooth version 2.0 (A2DP/AVRCP)
• A-GPS
• Nokia Maps 3.0 with: Drive, Walk, and Traffic (license for device lifetime)
• S60 3.2

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