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During the recently ended CTIA WIRELESS I.T. & Entertainment 2009, Verizon shared some numbers about its mobile navigation service – VZ Navigator. Here’s what we’ve learned:
- More than 65% of VZ Navigator customers use the service more than three times a week;
- So far in 2009, VZ Navigator users made 11.5 million more inquiries than in whole 2008;
- Searches for traffic updates and detours around traffic congestion hit more than 8.5 million per month, an increase of 93% from the previous year;
- VZ Navigator mobile consumers ran more than 480,000 searches to find gas stations;
- Searches for movie theaters were up more than 125% over last year, climbing to more than 1 million a month;
- Weather information was also popular with more than 1 million a month requests, a 128% increase from 2008.
And that’s about it. For the record, VZ Navigator is available for $9.99 a month for unlimited access or $2.99 for a one-day use on select Get It Now-enabled phones and select BlackBerry and other smartphones. VZ Navigator Global is available on the BlackBerry Storm, BlackBerry Tour and HTC Touch Pro2 smartphones for $19.99 per month…
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Dusan Belic
Dusan has been using smartphones since their introduction and is now following the latest trends in the industry. The "convergence" is what he's most excited about, and writing about it is the next logical thing to do. He thinks that using a smartphone is what everyone who cares about their time should do. In addition to his interests in mobile phones, Dusan also loves to experiment with the latest web and mobile 2.0 services. The idea of accessing and managing your information from any device no matter where you are simply amazes him. Whether it's an online to-do list, note taking service or a video sharing social network, he's there to try it out. He admits though, he's still searching for the ultimate web-based organizational tool, which "sings" perfectly with the mobile PIM application. Dusan used to run SymbianWatch.com which later became part of IntoMobile. He lives in Serbia, South-East Europe, from where he edits the site on a daily basis.
