And folks without GPS can pay an additional $50 for a puck from Garmin Ltd.
Users with internal GPS pay $99 for access to Garmin Mobile for BlackBerry (that covers you for the life of the device) and $99 per year for TeleNav GPS Navigator. And the Garmin Online service provides traffic information, weather forecasts, local gas prices and more.īoth services are compatible with a variety of BlackBerry devices, including Pearl, Curve and 8800-series handhelds, and they can be combined with an external GPS "puck" to enable devices without built-in GPS functionality to utilize the service. It also has some 6 million "points of interest," or preprogrammed locales of note. Like TeleNav, Garmin Mobile for BlackBerry offers voice or text turn-by-turn navigation throughout North America. (For related coverage, check out our review of TeleNav's mobile workforce management product, TeleNav Track.) And TeleNav provides traffic alerts and rerouting information based on those notifications. It can also help you find and navigate to nearby restaurants, Wi-Fi hot spots or any other of the company's 10 million business listings. TeleNav's GPS Navigator offers users a choice of voice or on-screen driving directions. Global Positioning System-based apps such as TeleNav Inc.'s GPS Navigator for BlackBerry and Garmin for BlackBerry help him get where he needs to be on time and as painlessly as possible. Like many executives, Heit is frequently on the move, but he rarely goes anywhere without his BlackBerry.
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