Verizon's VZ Navigator - directions from your GPS Mobile Phone
Verizon is launching a new GPS location based service, called the VZ Navigator. The service will deliver turn-by-turn directions with a voice interface for $10 per month, or $3 for 24-hour one-shot access (useful for travelers).
The service will launch on the new Motorola V325 phone (Right), but other GPS-equipped phones will follow. A major benefit of navigation services like Verizon's is the access to always-up-to-date map information. Integrated car navigation systems typically require the customer to purchase expensive update CDs or DVDs.
Analysts enthuse over the potential for GPS-equipped cell phones to get people where they're going, and provide incremental revenue to carriers, who already sell ringtones, MP3s, videocasts, and downloadable games. With 200 million cell phones in the U.S., every 1 percent of the market that signs on for cellular navigation at $10 a month provides companies with $240 million in annual revenue.
Not bad for something so small. while you'll always have the thing with you, it's still pretty small so use while riving down the road.
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Posted by Scott Martin at December 7, 2005 9:39 PM
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