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AT&T launches branded navigation service – AT&T Navigator

Categories: Announcements, AT&T,
By: , IntoMobile
Tuesday, April 1st, 2008 at 11:06 AM

AT&T Navigator

AT&T is taking what seems like a Verizon-like route by launching a carrier-branded navigation service. However, they went one step further making the so called AT&T Navigator the “only mobile phone-based GPS service that provides integrated speech recognition for address entry and points of interest search.” In addition, the location service offers other features like real-time traffic updates, ability to compare gas prices and get directions to the nearest gas stations, and mobile access to YellowPages.com.

AT&T Navigator is designed to provide you with clear and precise audible and visual turn-by-turn driving directions, including full-color moving maps, using GPS directly from your wireless phone. Working with TeleNav, whose navigation service has been available on AT&T PDAs since 2006, AT&T is now introducing its own branded next-generation GPS navigation service for all consumers. The service is available on GPS-capable PDAs and handsets, including the new consumer-focused Motorola Z9.

AT&T Navigator is already available for Windows Mobile and select BlackBerry (8310, 8800 and 8820) smartphone owners, as well as for the newly launched Motorola Z9. Monthly subscription costs $9.99 while the “Day Pass” is available for $2.99… AT&T’s release has more information.

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  • John Parker

    I am having problems getting my gps to open on my z9 phone. It loads up to 96% after a long time and then stalls. Sometimes it tells me that the gps signal is weak and sometimes it doesn’t. But it is not working. What can I do?

  • Doc

    I have found a way around this … you have to shut down the ATT app and wait a few minutes (while you drive around LOST) and then restart and resume your trip.

    Sometimes it can take a bit of travel to get the trip resumed … however it does come back.

    Keep in mind that Telnav does not use Sattelite for its GPS system … as I have been told … it uses cel towers and triangulates your position … I suspect the reason my approach works is that by restarting the app, I connect to new towers (kinda like when ATT drops your voice call because they are so heavily over subscribed – when you re-dial your voice call you get s new tower connection – because ATT is nice enough to have sufficient capacity for new calls … just not enough to continue your call).

    Would love to hear from a cellular expert (even from ATT) on all this.

    Regards
    Doc