No hint about pricing? Or release data? Is it gonna overlap with Google maps or their own map versions. How big is the app gonna be (size on hard drive)?

CoH

@Chester_Copperpot: There is no pricing for the iphone on that website.

SilenceisGolden

I thought Apple forbade using the iPhone 3G GPS for real-time route guidance...?

UnnDunn

@friedgold: Apple supposedly does to, so it doesn't really answer if this app is definatively coming or if its definatively coming like Adobe said Flash was and Tom Tom said their own navigation app was.

[gizmodo.com]

tande04

I just checked the Telenav website and their service is $10 a month/$100 year/$250 4 years.

Chester_Copperpot

Voice Guidance?

SilenceisGolden

I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that I'm not surprised, but mostly because I never understood that whole ban on turn-by-turn.

mildretard

I'm glad I returned that Nuvi I got for birthday last month.... This was a MUST HAVE on my list for mah JesusPhoneah......

future-proof

SSSHHHHHWWWWIIIIIIIIING!!!!

SilenceisGolden

That's awful interesting seeing as how AT&T bought the rights to call TeleNav AT&T Navigator on their phones right before Mother's Day.

Conflict?

shorty63136

NICE!
the only reason the 3g iphone as it is now can't do turn by turn is that google maps can't download the images fast enough over EDGE/3G. that, and google maps has some clause disallowing turn-by-turn.

friedgold

They couldn't give you any hint about when it will be released? I don't see what harm that would do.

itchytooth

Will this work for the original iphone????

wmchiefs

Sweet. Digg this here: [digg.com]

aseideman

YES! I was getting worried for a minute there. *phew*

rockstarjoe

Eat it! everyone that said the iPhone GPS sucked because it didn't have turn by turn!

ajlafontaine

Score!

leetXcore

Please please can it have a British accent so that I can feel bad about how I drive.

Or maybe Jessica Rabbit's voice?

Chester_Copperpot

I wonder how they'll handle map updates? POI updates?

JEmlay

I wouldn't be surprised if this has a $100 price tag and will loose connectivity to the maps a year after you activate unless you re-activate.

tblain

Wow, so many people will be so lost with this thing that it will be quite funny to watch.

People just don't seem to realize that it's difficult to develope good GPSs that don't direct you down a one way dead end.

Noobs-R-Us

@wmchiefs:

If it DID work, it would work really really poorly given that its only directions would be coming from cell tower triangulation :)

gregorypierce

@wmchiefs: No, sadly.

wild homes is being recast!

@SilenceisGolden: Yes but for all AT&T phones it's the price points that I stated.

Chester_Copperpot

@wmchiefs: The 1st gen iPhone doesn't have a GPS chip, so no. However, a GPS radio attached to the 30-pin connector could work.

@UnnDunn: Me too.

Leonard Nimrod

It's spelled "TeleNav"

guru_ck

Awesome...this is one of those big things I was hoping for, along with MMS, and Video recording...

...any word on those yet?

Chromeo

What will be really cool is when a GPS program for iPhone out-Dashes Dash with feedback from drivers. Dash's idea is great, but it needs critical mass to fly, the kind of critical mass that already exists and is growing with iPhone.

frigg

i'm holding out for the tom tom version

=opportunityfanboy

Well now, two of the latest major complaints against the iPhone 3G have just fallen with the opening of the app store. "turn by turn" GPS will soon be available and iPhone users (with a Me.com account) can have their corporate exchange mail right alongside their personal mail pushed to their phone immediately.

THe next few months should get very interesting as a broader assortment of apps become available.

Brau

Awsome! This would replace any stand-alone GPS device for me. I just ask, since the you will download the app how are maps handled? Will it be able to work in the car regardless of wifi or cellphone signal?

Quicksilver4648

During my 4/7 weekend in LA, I used the navigation function on my Sprint Instinct. It worked like a charm! Should work superbly on the iPhone. My only complaint on the Instinct, is that you can't use navigation in landscape mode.

logikgr

@SilenceisGolden: Unless teleNAV plans to offer a flat fee for unlimited use all AT&T phones you can rest assured that this will be a per month, subscription based service.

doublehelix

@doublehelix: Is there a method in which they can offer a monthly fee via the App Store? I don't know of anything in place to support that.

Leonard Nimrod

@Leonard Nimrod: they might just give you the app for free or for some nominal see, and then prevent you from using it without a subsciption password.

they can sell or give the app through app store, and sell the subscription on their own website.

unless apple threw something into the T&C's, then i can definitely see telenav doing that.

...that aside, where's the tomtom version at? my dad has the tomtom go 720 and it has a much nicer interface than telenav...isn't apple a fan of really nice interfaces?

rimplestultskin

@logikgr: The ladnscape mode is a Sprint choice not TeleNav. Check out all the apps on the Instinct, the only one that works in landscape is the web browser.

Illithid

garmin and tomtom are the best nav companies...

i had the treo650 running tomtom navigator... on the 2GB SD card i had europe and north america... now i'm on the iphone, hoping to get a quick update for the navigator s/w... i was deeply sad when months passed and tomtom noe garmin released an app for the iphone....

also the iphone 2G needs a bluetooth stack for an external bluetooth GPS mouse, then the iphone 3G and the iphone 2G can run those navigation turn by turn apps!!! there's no need to shut out the iphone 2G!!!!!

smokeonit

Current iPhone SDK license forbids real time navigation. If they don't have a special agreement with Apple, you will not see this on the App Store. :(

flibbles

Gizmodo - The company name is spelled "TeleNav".

cksv

@flibbles: From indie developers: because you wouldn't want them writing apps that makes customers drive into a ditch. And then they sue.

dagamer34