Nice review. Maybe you should also review the Garmin Mobile XT. In addition, you haven't reviewed an in-car navigation systemin a while. If you are considering reviewing a in-car nav system, may I suggest the Honda nav system? It is made by Alpine.

Regarding TeleNav, I've used it extensively and would NOT recommend it. I tried it for convenience purposes but gave up on it because of the host of problems it presented. Perhaps you were impressed with it because you only had it long enough to review it?

The software is buggy and often crashes. Also, their tech support is the least helpful, most uninformed group I've ever encountered.

If you look at their forum on TeleNav's website, you will find more dissatisfied customers than satisfied ones and similar complaints to mine.

quoted by RobGPS: "Also, their tech support is the least helpful, most uninformed group I've ever encountered."

Really, Rob? Even worse than Magellan? :-D ;-)

To Steve,

Close. Very close.

I am VERY pleased with my VZ Navigator, which I have had a little over one year. Maybe some settings are a little deep in the menu-tree, but these are not likely to be changed often. It is so handy to have the Navigator right in the phone. I've used it when a bunch of us were hanging around and wanted to go to a movie. I sometimes use it in other people's cars. Its extensive POI database seems to find everything! And when I demo finding the best price for gas, people go nuts.

It sometimes takes a very few moments to orient itself when starting a trip, and I wish I could increase the volume. I also had some frustration when using it in Pedestrian mode recently.

I tried a Tom-Tom for a month, and then a Magellin, but returned both once I learned of Navigator. I've recommended it to my friends and other people. With its many features, its portability (my phone is always with me) and its great price ($10/mo), I am totally sold! Give it a try for a couple of months; you can discontinue it at any time. (No; I don't work for Verizon!)

I have had VZ Nav for about a month. It is a pain. The search engine is horrible. It cannot find the easiest of location, (i.e. Macy's). When I do find a location, it does not give you the turns in advance of the turns.

The only other system I am familiar with is Neverlost, which I have always found to be a good system. Maybe my expectations are too high.

I have used VZ Nav for a couple of years. If anything, it has gotten more difficult to use and has been a hindrance rather than a help whether traveling locally (northern Virginia/DC/Maryland) or nationally (east coast, new England, Chicago, other midwest areas, etc.)

Am currently looking to replace it with another GPS device. I could go into depth regarding the various features, but all-in-all, I would not recommend it. It costs $9.99 per month and if it worked well, I'd be happy to keep it as it would save me from having yet another device to carry with me on travel. It's just not worth the inconvenience.

VZ Navigator is a fairly good service. It has come in the most handy when out with family/friends and a restaurant or movie theater needs to be located. This information can be retrieved quickly without having to lug another piece of equipment around.

However, there are a couple of problems that I have found. The first is one common to any of these devices, in that occasionally the database will not be entirely up to date, with locations found

The biggest problem that I have encountered concerns signal reception. On a trip into an area with spotty cell reception, VZ Navigator actually locked up the phone, to the point where the only way to get it to work again was to remove the battery.

Overall, the system works as advertised, but if you're out in the "boonies", I would strongly consider getting a dedicated GPS system