TeleNav

TeleNav, Inc., is a privately-held company headquartered in Sunnyvale, California.

TeleNav has currently partnered with 15 wireless carriers in 21 countries.

TeleNav’s solutions include GPS navigation, Mobile Resource Management (MRM), social networking and local search. The company’s first product, TeleNav GPS Navigator™, is a mobile phone-based GPS navigation service. It includes functionality such as 3D maps, traffic alerts, business listings, restaurant reviews, speech recognition, Wi-Fi hotspot finder, and gas prices.

TeleNav’s enterprise application, TeleNav Track, incorporates GPS-enabled tracking, time sheets, wireless forms and navigation.

TeleNav products are available on more than 450 wireless devices and run on all major mobile platforms currently available. TeleNav’s partners include Sprint Nextel, AT&T, T-Mobile USA, Alltel, Boost Mobile, Qwest, SouthernLINC Wireless, Rogers, Bell Mobility, T-Mobile UK, T-Mobile Austria, China Mobile, Vivo Brazil, Telcel, NII Holdings, Research In Motion (RIM), Motorola, Samsung, Sanyo, LG, Palm, HTC, Hewlett Packard, Nokia, NAVTEQ, Tele Atlas, deCarta, INRIX, Qualcomm and SiRF Technology Holdings.

TeleNav or telenav, also known as TeleNav GPS Navigator or TeleNav Track, is a navigation system internally launchable from a mobile phone such as a BlackBerry 8800 [ [http://www.blackberry8800series.com/?CPID=KNC-SEMD_8800&HBX_PK=ggl,us_8800_brand_en,k5AB,s,&HBX_OU=50/ BlackBerry 8800 Series Smartphone Wireless Handheld Device | Sleek Design with High Performance Features ] ] or PDA. It was the first to provide a GPS navigation system on mobile phones in the US. [ [http://www.mywire.com/pubs/PRNewswire/2007/01/08/2467559?extID=10051 MyWire | PR Newswire: TeleNav Inc. Selects Inrix as Traffic Information Partner for TeleNav GPS Navigator(TM) and TeleNav Traffic(TM) ] ]

The TeleNav company was founded by a team of GPS experts in 1999.Fact|date=November 2007 The company was called Televigation until 2005. [ [http://www.telenav.com/about/pr/pr-20050923.html TeleNav Press Release ] ] Today, the TeleNav service is available worldwide. In February 2006 TeleNav established its European headquarters in the UK. disputed-inline [ [http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,139149-c,pdacellphonehybrids/article.html PC World - Review: A Motorola Q Smart Phone for Travelers ] ]

AT&T Mobility offers TeleNav software for several of its phones under the name "AT&T Navigator." [http://www.wireless.att.com/businesscenter/popup/telenav-gps-important-info.jsp AT&T Navigator Important Info] ]

Sprint PCS in addition to offering the TeleNav service for Nextel handsets also rebrands the TeleNav service as "Sprint Navigation." [http://navigation.sprint.com/snweb/]

ee Also

*VZ Navigator

References

www.telenav.eu TeleNav's European web site

External links

* [http://www.telenav.com/ TeleNav Official Web Site] [http://www.telenavtrack.com TeleNav Track Web Site]