Telenav Shotgun connected GPS launched, reviewed

It doesn't seem like the connected GPS market is the best place to be at the moment -- Dash just dropped hardware sales in a radical restructuring and Magellan's halted development of the 5340 -- but Telenav isn't shying away, throwing its hat into the ring with the $300 Shotgun. A $12/month GPRS subscription gets you the usual slew of web-enabled features like real-time traffic and weather, live POI searches, gas pricing, and online trip planning, all wrapped in the usual Telenav PND UI and bolstered by 11 million preloaded POIs. Sounds like an interesting piece of kit, and it's apparently well done -- GPS Review took an early look at the 4.3-inch touchscreen PND and found it to be a "good start," albeit with some minor annoyances that will hopefully be remedied in a future software update. Still, we're just not all that convinced that another subscription fee is going to appeal to many in this economic climate -- we'll see if the Shotgun manages to fire. Peep tons more pics in the gallery.

Gallery: Telenav Shotgun

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[Valicore @ Nov 10th 2008 12:32AM]

GPRS? How am I gonna do a live POI search with that? Too slowwwwww! And $12 a month? no.

[Anomoly @ Nov 10th 2008 12:44AM]

it would be cool but paying $12 a month just isn't worth it.

[BobFromVegas @ Nov 10th 2008 1:14AM]

I'd question if these things are actually worth it. Many people I know have them, and say they are life savers, but how many times do you actually need it? I can see if you travel often, but my friend has one and he rarely leaves the country.

I used OnStar for a trip to DC, worked out ok, but I don't know if I'd be willing to pay a price for this unit+the subscription.

[Corey O @ Nov 10th 2008 2:39AM]

$12 a month? You can just subscribe to an application on your cell phone for $10. Cell phones will one be made into life sabers.

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[Jon Nelson @ Nov 10th 2008 3:29AM]

For a moment, I thought you had just monstrously typo'd "lightsaber"

[Corey O @ Nov 10th 2008 6:49AM]

That darn space bar jammed again....honest....no, really.....

[betadown @ Nov 10th 2008 6:08AM]

Sorry..I'm NEVER paying a monthly subscription for gps navigation data.

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