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.
$10 a month? I'll stick with GoogleMaps on my G1 (Rooted, Cyan3.6.8.1+PalmPreTheme) because it's free. Turn by turn directions are cool, but not $10 cool... Too bad it's service based or else I could just ADB push the APK file. haha
Sidenote, how does this fare to similar products? e.g. Garmin?
+1. No way am I spending $10/mo for that.
what's so funny about adb pushing an apk you didn't pay for?
Most people pay 2K for the GPS option when buying a new car, you can get a nice stand alone GPS for 200-400 range.
Also Google Maps is not the same as GPS, GPS tells you where to go, where to turn, a great product, Google Maps is more like a paperless map.
Agreed and chalk up another reason to go with Sprint and the Everything Data plan...It includes TeleNav GPS. :D
Is that a new color?
Or is it just Merlot under the sun?
i was actually kinda thinking about getting this in merlot until i saw these pics. Im settled on black
wait why is this a different release than the G1? is it just because the G1 was on 1.0 and now the mytouch 3G is on 1.5?
It's just "official support"
I've been running Telenav on my Google Ion for about four months now.
I'm not fond of the xx/month plans. I rather pay a one time fee and get maps preloaded and not pull them don from the network. When I most need GPS is when I don't have cell signal.
Ya, this has totally been available for weeks.
Longer than that -- it's been available since February for the G1. myTouch availability is, of course, new.
Calling myTouch availability "new" is a bit of a stretch, since it's the exact same program and the only thing that's changed is a stamp of approval from Telenav saying that it does indeed work.
I still don't really like the idea of using GPS navigation on a cellphone. What if I'm approaching a sophisticated roundabout and someone calls me? Should the phone carrier or the software company cover my car insurance fee?
i think you'd be responsible for not keeping your eyes on the road ;)
Supporting another (identical) handset is meaningless...
What's slightly more interesting is this marks the release of European support.
Wow $10month is kinda pushing it. I love how Sprint is the only company that includes a decent GPS app in their plans. I have no complaints with it on my Pre. Just wish I had a screen that size.
That is a nice perk, especially when you consider that the free one that comes with sprint is literally the same Telenav program that I'm paying $10 a month for on Android.
Just another example of how they've blown it, with all of the Android phones, by using a non-smartphone 3.2" screen instead of the much needed 3.5" screen. I'm curious to see if this proggie will even be readable in person since the text in the photo isn't readable now & it's already enlarged.
I'm going to give you the benefit of the doubt and assume that you're joking.
I would only pay a monthly fee, if I can turn on and off the gps from month to month at will as if I do not need to use the gps I do not pay the fee and when I need the gps app then I pay for the month and they better have the most up to date maps available at all times. But I do agree a monthly fee is stupid.
10$ a month ? what ? When are we going to have TomTom on android/iphone btw??
The best of both worlds, HTC Sense + WinMo (xda FTW) http://www.mobiletechworld.com/2009/08/04/htc-sense-ui-ported-to-windows-mobile-phone-video/
This is an extremely terrible and weird looking shot that does not represent what the phone actually looks like. The Hero would probably look crappy in awful lighting conditions, too.
Its actually already available just download the G1 version and it will work. Ive had it on my Mytouch for about a month now and it does work nicely.
There's already Copilot 8.0 for Android, which downloads the maps to your phone and doesn't need a network connection. Looks better and runs smoother than Telenav, and NO monthly charge.
Why would anyone want this when the CoPilot app is a one time fee of 35 and the maps download to your SD card?