AT&T to follow Verizon's footsteps, self-brand navigation service?

by Chris Ziegler, posted Mar 31st 2008 at 7:38PM

Love it or hate it, AT&T's been offering TeleNav navigation services on a number of devices for a while now -- but it looks like the carrier's trying to up its clout just a smidge by rechristening the service with its own name. We've been hearing that TeleNav will become AT&T Navigator tomorrow -- on AT&T, anyway -- and to commemorate the occasion, the Motorola Z9 slider will be launched as the inaugural device to use the rebranded service. We should be able to validate or debunk this in just a few hours now, so stay tuned.

[Thanks to everyone who sent this in, with special thanks to Rick for the image]

Filed under: Software, ATT

Tags: att, att navigator, AttNavigator, moto, motorola, nav, navigation, rumor, slider, telenav, z9

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fyreblazer @ Mar 31st 2008 7:59PM

Yup, tomorrow's the day.

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Gib @ Mar 31st 2008 8:08PM

Nice Job ATT. What's next!

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VZWguy @ Mar 31st 2008 8:25PM

I love how for the longest time as verizon has been selling it's VZnavigator, all the people on ATT were yelling about how could verizon charge for such things, and that ATT would never go to locking GPS down unless you use their service.

well here ya go.
it will eventually extend to their smartphones, and they would be ignorant to not do it.
verizon makes a good chunk of change form VZnavigator, and ATT knows it. they aren't the biggest carrier in the country for no reason, they know what works and what doesn't.

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helixtimestwo @ Mar 31st 2008 11:31PM

AT&T does not lock down their GPS. I've been using TomTom 6 and Google Maps (w/GPS) since I've had the device.

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CB17 @ Mar 31st 2008 11:20PM

No one's locking anything down. I'm sorry to leave you all alone in your restricted world "VZWguy" but all they did was take an optional service that is available on several phones and rebrand it as their own.

Better luck next time though.

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Dave @ Mar 31st 2008 11:38PM

Yeah VZW fanboy (almost didn't think they could exist!), ATT has never LOCKED down ANY of their phones' GPS capabilities. Nice life, ass.

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fyreblazer @ Apr 1st 2008 8:27AM

Not to pile on but AT&T Nav is already on smart phones. The Tilt is capible of running Telenav and it's GPS is not locked down like oh say the BlackBerry 8830.

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