Sprint debuts TeleNav Traffic with intelligent rerouting

by Chris Ziegler posted Jan 8th 2007 at 7:50PM

Sure, you can get all fancy and download your traffic reports via MSN Direct straight to an appropriately equipped Garmin, but Sprint and TeleNav have a slightly older-school idea (if you can really call EV-DO old-school) in mind. TeleNav Traffic supplements the company's phone-based GPS navigation software with traffic data updated every five minutes; problematic situations on your route can be delivered both via voice and on-screen prompt. Best of all, it'll route around jams, fiery wrecks, and other disasters automatically at the user's whim. Right now, availability is limited to Sprint's RAZR, KRZR, and Katana -- that's the bad news -- but the good news is that it's free for folks who pick up the basic GPS Navigator between now and June 30. After that, $3.99 / month is the magic number.

Filed under: Software, Motorola, Sanyo, Sprint

Tags: gps, sprint, sprint nextel, sprint-nextel, SprintNextel, telenav, telenav traffic, TelenavTraffic, traffic

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Marco Adragna @ Jan 9th 2007 9:59AM

As crackberry users know, Telenav works wonderfully well on BlackBerry 8700 and 8100 too. On the other hand, an external Bluetooth modem is needed on such models.
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John @ Jan 9th 2007 9:13PM

How do you get this for free?

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