Increasing Safety and Improving the Navigation Experience
With this launch, TeleNav introduces single-click speech input which allows the user to press one button and use common phrases such as "Drive to 1130 Kifer Road, Sunnyvale, California," "Search for Starbucks," or "Show me a map of Sunnyvale, California." Customers can also say "Drive home" to launch directions to their home or use a new shortcut option, "Home" in the "Drive To" menu of the application.
Other new features include:
- Lane assist for major roads and intersections to help drivers perform upcoming maneuvers
- Audio alerts for upcoming intersections reportedly equipped with red light traffic cameras
- On-screen freeway speed limit information with visual warnings when drivers exceed the posted speed limit
- "Local Apps" option in the application's main menu, giving customers quick access to local movie information, weather and commute alerts
Navigation Out of Wireless Coverage
Using unique, patent-pending technology, the new release of TeleNav GPS Navigator now downloads the entire route and surrounding map data onto the driver's phone. This ensures users will continue to receive turn-by-turn directions to their selected destination if they drive out of wireless coverage -- even if they miss multiple turns along the way. In addition, the service will allow customers the ability to start a route back to their original location while out of wireless coverage. Once they drive back into wireless coverage, they will again have full service access in order to get directions to a new destination as well as receive real-time information such as traffic alerts.
Focusing on Customer Feedback and Innovation
TeleNav announces its new version after recently being recognized as the Top Handset Navigation Supplier by ABI Research(1). For the second year in a row, the firm has ranked TeleNav as world leader based on overall innovation and implementation.
"The most important thing we can do is listen to feedback from customers. This new version incorporates many features that they've asked for," said Sal Dhanani, co-founder and vice president, products and marketing for TeleNav. "Our team is committed to providing the absolute best in mobile phone navigation."
The new version of TeleNav's service will be available this Wednesday, March 24 on select devices.
About TeleNav, Inc.
TeleNav, Inc. is a leading provider of location based services, or LBS, including voice guided navigation, on mobile phones. TeleNav's LBS solutions provide consumers and enterprises with convenient and easy to use location specific, real time and personalized features and functions. TeleNav's flexible and proprietary LBS platform enables it to efficiently provide its LBS to millions of end users, across more than 500 types of mobile phones, all major mobile phone operating systems and a broad range of wireless network protocols. TeleNav's service providers include Alltel, AT&T, Bell Mobility, Boost Mobile, China Mobile, Cincinnati Bell, NII Holdings, Rogers, Sprint Nextel, T-Mobile UK, T-Mobile USA, Telcel, Telecom Italia Mobile, Verizon Wireless and Vivo Brazil.
TeleNav's other partners include Ford Motor Company, Hewlett-Packard, HTC, INRIX, LG, Motorola, NAVTEQ, Nokia, Palm, Qualcomm, Research In Motion, Samsung, Sanyo and Tele Atlas. TeleNav is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California.
For more information on TeleNav, please visit www.telenav.com. Follow TeleNav on Twitter at www.twitter.com/telenav or on Facebook at www.facebook.com/telenav
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(1) http://www.abiresearch.com/press/1612-TeleNav+is+Top+Handset+Navigation+Software+Supplier
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