The latest and greatest version of VZ Navigator (4.0), which tosses in traffic avoidance for 75 cities, along with 3D view plus some other stuff is live right now. $10 a month or $3 to check it out for a day. [Verizon]
VZ Navigator Update with Traffic Avoidance and 3D View Now Available
11:15 AM on Thu May 8 2008
By matt buchanan
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Maybe if it was like 4.99 a month....but still expensive.
Decent deal at 10 bucks a month. Too bad the verizon phones don't have much to offer right now.
Why are these GPS services so expensive? $10 a month? Seriously???
If iPhone 2.0 tries to charge $10 for GPS, I will erupt with rage.
If iPhone 2.0 doesn't have GPS at all, I will also erupt with rage.
people say $10 is too expensive, but they will often drop $400+ on a Garmin or Tom Tom.
Live traffic? Can already do do that on my iPhone........ For FREE!
405 on light traffic? HA! I call BS. unless, of course, you're looking at it at 3am. and even then, if you get lucky.
If you have certain plans, it's free, so check your plan details. You may already have this and not realize it. pretty good GPS all around, although I obviously wish I had a bigger screen...
I've been using 4.0 for a week now and the traffic service is not as great as you might expect. Traffic announcements are often inaccurate and/or exaggerated.
There is a clever little traffic bar at the bottom of the screen now with green, yellow and red, indicating the appropriate traffic level, however it is more than often wrong. There are settings if you want the traffic info to affect your route, or just to be prompted, but either way, it doesn't accurately re-route you for the noted congestion.
The 3-D map views are cool but are you really going to harness all that added aesthetic and so called advanced convenience on a 2 inch cell phone screen?
Most of the time I just use the voice prompts and occasionally glance at the phone sitting right under my car's radio. The VZ navigator is not a true GPS and therefore cannot harness the graphical accuracy of satelite based Navigation devices. It's a bare bones, point A to B application that does what its suppose to do, and that's what I like about it.
Verizon doesn't need to add too many bells and whistles for it to sell.... at least the upgrade was free. I'm still a little upset that my upgrade wasn't as useful as I had hoped.
two drawbacks to VZNav:
1) it doesn't nav if you're on the phone - oops, you missed your turn!
2) it can be painfully slow to download the next bit of information. Not good when you're cruisin' looking for that turn to get to an appointment, and you're late.
It's included free if you're on one of their premium plans. And this version has been out for 2 weeks. A lil slow there..
And the version I got 2 weeks ago is 4.1
I've been checking the "Check for Updates" from within VZNavigtor for weeks - not there. After seeing this post I tried it again, then discovered you need to download it from GET GOING -> Get New Ap.
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