The growth of cell phones with global-positioning technology is making life uncertain for the makers of personal navigational devices that help drivers figure out where they are and where to go.
Manufacturers of standalone GPS products will have to move quickly and smartly to transform their dumb map readers into intelligent devices that can provide a host of services such as traffic avoidance.
The photo shows Verizon’s VZ Navigator on a Blackberry.
We have been using VZ Navigator for nearly three years. We don’t use it often but it has never let us down.
As a test I compared VZ Navigator to Sprint Navigation. We entered the same address in our phones. I used the voice recognition feature, which works great and is much faster than using my qwerty keypad.
Both VZ Navigator and Sprint Navigation took us to the right place. Only problem was, Sprint Navigation took us on a couple of side streets. VZ Navigator had us stay on arterial streets.
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