TeleNav GPS Navigator comes to T-Mobile's myTouch 3G
By Chris Ziegler 
posted Aug 4th 2009 12:00AM
posted Aug 4th 2009 12:00AM
We've been playing with a cut of GPS Navigator on our myTouch recently, and it delivers a totally usable car navigation experience -- a perfect complement to the comprehensive pedestrian capabilities of Google Maps. Most of the warnings from our G1-based review of the application carry over here -- you need true GPS reception, not merely cellular triangulation, so your phone will need a view of the sky to have a shot at picking up satellites (this also means that getting a location lock is a more time-consuming process, though it typically didn't take longer than a few seconds to do its thing). We're not digging how the colored lines that convey traffic information on highways flash; we'd rather they just stayed a solid color, the way most GPS systems handle it. We also found that the menus are a little wonky -- bringing your finger in contact with a menu item and swiping up or down to scroll would occasionally trigger the first item you touched, which ends up being a fairly annoying bug in practice. All told, though, if you can justify the expense, your $10 a month is going to net you a genuinely reasonable way to consolidate all of your help-me-I'm-lost needs -- whether by foot or by car -- into a single device.
I realize that TeleNav has really nice features, but it seriously disgusts me that they charge $9.99 a month when dedicated GPS units go for $70-80 now. Oh and plus there're free GPS apps like amAze that do the job tolerably, if a little more involved.
I'm assuming that because you are paying for a subscription that you get map updates for as long as you are subscribed, something is extra with a standalone GPS.
Yeah, but if you keep the subscription for two years, let's say, that's ~$240. That's still much more than a standalone GPS unit and any updates and traffic subscriptions you need. Sure it's convenient for those who don't know any better, but it's just highway robbery, and it irks me.
Or you could switch to a sprint everything data plan and you get this free. Same program is on the Pre with no extra fee. It was even on my old Sanyo Kitana for free.
But if you have T-Mobile, you might as well just buy a GPS unit since they are so much cheaper then they used to be.
Woo hoo first post! :-) j/k, who cares.
Anyway, I had enough reasons I was thinking about picking up a MyTouch 3G; this is probably the nail in the coffin for my iPhone 3G--I'm over it.
Nothing should be a subscription service. It should be a one time fee. For the price of one year for this telenav.. I bought a Garmin Nuvi 780. An awesome GPS.
Not to mention the vastly superior ALK CoPilot app that's out on the android market now. It's 35 bucks with no subscription fees at all.
TeleNav GPS Navigator comes to T-Mobile's myTouch 3G ..Nice ..i am going to buy the Mobile..I am using the Unlocked Nokia N95 8GB Model Mobile..I used the site http://www.unlocking4u.com/ for the Mobile Unlocking process.