Verizon VZ Navigator Review
PC Mag has a good review up on one of the more popular navigation applications for the mobile phone crowd, the Verizon VZ Navigator. As more and more mobile phones hit the market that are GPS enabled, wireless companies are hitting the market with navigation services, and according to the market insiders I talk to, mobile phone based navigation is going to hit hard in 2007.
The timely review walks through the capabilities of the system, and hits on the highlights, including the easy to use interface, the good text-to-speech capabilities and as a result of the information being stored on Verizon's computers, the POI database is robust. Many value level stand alone GPS units rely on "[low] millions" of POI, but the original databases have more than 10 million POI. With the large capacity and ability to stream the data to your phone, Verizon can offer the bigger dataset easily. The downside is that you need to keep in contact with cellular towers, which may be sparse in some rural areas.
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Posted by Scott Martin at March 2, 2007 8:34 AM
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