Cingular Unveils PDA-Based Wireless GPS Navigation System With 3D Moving Maps

Exciting name for a press release isn’t it! Yet tell me how having to carry a bluetooth GPS reciever is going to be fun? Doesn’t RIM sell a BlackBerry (NSDQ: RIMM) with GPS built in already? Nokia (NYSE: NOK) when will you learn!

Cingular Wireless
today became the first wireless carrier in the U.S. to introduce a
wireless navigation system with 3D maps and "fuzzy search" when it
launched an enhanced version of TeleNav GPS Navigator on the Nokia E62
device.

Using TeleNav GPS Navigator on the Nokia E62 device,
customers will receive turn-by-turn directions while driving and view
colorful 3D moving maps on the device’s large, high-resolution screen,
which measures 320 x 240 pixels. Just like an in-car navigation system,
the 3D maps turn, move and stop as the driver does the same, while also
displaying a realistic image of the streets the driver is approaching
and streets they are passing. Users can also pan and zoom the map to
view surrounding streets.

Source: Mobile Burn