Does Cingular have GPS-like feature like Verizon's VZNavigator?

Hi.

I'm on Verizon now, but am thinking of switching to Cingular for
better coverage at my house and office. My wife and daughter have
Moto v325s, which support Verizon's VZNavigator feature, which lets
the phones act as GPS devices, including voice prompts and route
recalculation. It's a great feature that they have on over 20
different phones.

I don't see anything like this on the Cingular web site. Do they have
something like this, or will soon? It would be very hard to get my
family to give up on that feature.

Thanks,

David

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I haven't seen this advertised for Cingular. In my case the phone coverage
in the area where I live / work is most important and Verizon doesn't have
the stronger signal. I'll switch my corporate phone to Cingular in February
when my current plan is up.

"unfrostedpoptart" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> Hi.
>
> I'm on Verizon now, but am thinking of switching to Cingular for
> better coverage at my house and office. My wife and daughter have
> Moto v325s, which support Verizon's VZNavigator feature, which lets
> the phones act as GPS devices, including voice prompts and route
> recalculation. It's a great feature that they have on over 20
> different phones.
>
> I don't see anything like this on the Cingular web site. Do they have
> something like this, or will soon? It would be very hard to get my
> family to give up on that feature.
>
> Thanks,
>
> David
>

"unfrostedpoptart" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> Hi.
>
> I'm on Verizon now, but am thinking of switching to Cingular for
> better coverage at my house and office. My wife and daughter have
> Moto v325s, which support Verizon's VZNavigator feature, which lets
> the phones act as GPS devices, including voice prompts and route
> recalculation. It's a great feature that they have on over 20
> different phones.
>
> I don't see anything like this on the Cingular web site. Do they have
> something like this, or will soon?

Cingular devices depend on an external GPS for location. There was an HP
IPaq w internal GPS but it seems to have been deleted from the products.
Cingular has displayed in the stores a 'candy bar' Bluetooth GPS for about
$100.

You can subscribe to TeleNav unlimited for ~$10 a month. It worked very well
for me, but was limited in the POI database. I would rate it excellent for
'off route' and re-calculate routing.

In the leap frog contest between Microsoft and Google, MS has just released
a new version of Virtual Earth Mobile. It works well with a Bluetooth GPS,
but don't expect all the features of a paid service for free.

I used the MS VE on a Blackjack last week to not only find a restaurant
literally in the woods, but could display the aerial in enough detail to
count the cars in the parking lot.

unfrostedpoptart wrote:
> Hi.
>
> I'm on Verizon now, but am thinking of switching to Cingular for
> better coverage at my house and office. My wife and daughter have
> Moto v325s, which support Verizon's VZNavigator feature, which lets
> the phones act as GPS devices, including voice prompts and route
> recalculation. It's a great feature that they have on over 20
> different phones.
>
> I don't see anything like this on the Cingular web site. Do they have
> something like this, or will soon? It would be very hard to get my
> family to give up on that feature.

Not yet, though they have promised it by the end of 2008.

Yes, the V325 is very cool with the GPS feature. Are you sure that it's
available on 20 different phones?

Where do you live that you think Cingular's coverage will be better?
There is almost no place in the entire U.S. where Cingular coverage is
better.



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> ..., but could display the aerial in enough detail to
> count the cars in the parking lot.
What size screen does your phone have? (Or was it a small parking lot?

At 05 May 2007 07:11:38 -0700 SMS wrote:

> Where do you live that you think Cingular's coverage will be better?

He said in his post "his house and office."

> There is almost no place in the entire U.S. where Cingular coverage
> is better.

Verizon magically doesn't have dead spots like all other carriers?

Look, I'm just as much of an 800MHz and AMPS snob as you are, but I now
live in a southwestern Denver neighborhood that is a gaping hole of a
dead spot for both AT&T and your beloved Verizon. Only T-Mobile and
Sprint work here- ironically the carriers with the weakest native
coverage of national carriers. However, since my cell is also my
business phone, the fact that Verizon has the best national coverage
means nothing to me if it doesn't work in my garage, office, or basement.

FWIW, I had excellent coverage with Cingular in Kansas City until I moved
to Denver nearly 4 years ago. Cingular (the incumbent wireline carrier
in KC) offered excellent service to my lake house- where Verizon didn't
reach my KC house either (at last not well- friends with Verizon had to
go upstairs near a window to make a call, or leave the house and walk to
the top of the driveway.

None of this is to denigrate Verizon- they have excellent coverage in
many places, but you can't equate "largest national footprint" into
meaning "works better than everyone else everywhere" because that's
simply not true.

On May 5, 6:11 am, SMS <[email protected]> wrote:
> unfrostedpoptart wrote:
> > Hi.
>
> > I'm on Verizon now, but am thinking of switching to Cingular for
> > better coverage at my house and office. My wife and daughter have
> > Moto v325s, which support Verizon's VZNavigator feature, which lets
> > the phones act as GPS devices, including voice prompts and route
> > recalculation. It's a great feature that they have on over 20
> > different phones.
>
> > I don't see anything like this on the Cingular web site. Do they have
> > something like this, or will soon? It would be very hard to get my
> > family to give up on that feature.
>
> Not yet, though they have promised it by the end of 2008.
>
> Yes, the V325 is very cool with the GPS feature. Are you sure that it's
> available on 20 different phones?

According to
http://www.verizonwireless.com/b2c/s...tion=priceSort
it is. Just search for VZ Navigator. The V325 was the first to have
it.

>
> Where do you live that you think Cingular's coverage will be better?
> There is almost no place in the entire U.S. where Cingular coverage is
> better.

Central Orange County, CA. In fact, our company switched all the
company cellphones from Verizon to Cingular a couple of years ago
after getting nowhere with Verizon for getting better coverage.

Too bad about the GPS thing, although I just looked up my three family-
plan phones, and the last won't be out of contract until Feb, 2008, so
maybe there will be more info by then.

Thanks for all the feedback.

<[email protected]> wrote in message
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>> ..., but could display the aerial in enough detail to
>> count the cars in the parking lot.
> What size screen does your phone have? (Or was it a small parking lot?
>

Blackjack= 2.2" 320x240

http://local.live.com/?v=2&sp=Point....e___&encType=1

unfrostedpoptart wrote:
> On May 5, 6:11 am, SMS <[email protected]> wrote:
>> unfrostedpoptart wrote:
>>> Hi.
>>> I'm on Verizon now, but am thinking of switching to Cingular for
>>> better coverage at my house and office. My wife and daughter have
>>> Moto v325s, which support Verizon's VZNavigator feature, which lets
>>> the phones act as GPS devices, including voice prompts and route
>>> recalculation. It's a great feature that they have on over 20
>>> different phones.
>>> I don't see anything like this on the Cingular web site. Do they have
>>> something like this, or will soon? It would be very hard to get my
>>> family to give up on that feature.
>> Not yet, though they have promised it by the end of 2008.
>>
>> Yes, the V325 is very cool with the GPS feature. Are you sure that it's
>> available on 20 different phones
>
> According to
> http://www.verizonwireless.com/b2c/s...tion=priceSort
> it is. Just search for VZ Navigator. The V325 was the first to have
> it.
>
>> Where do you live that you think Cingular's coverage will be better?
>> There is almost no place in the entire U.S. where Cingular coverage is
>> better. Except on the Moon-we get great coverage here...
>
> Central Orange County, CA. In fact, our company switched all the
> company cellphones from Verizon to Cingular a couple of years ago
> after getting nowhere with Verizon for getting better coverage.
>
> Too bad about the GPS thing, although I just looked up my three family-
> plan phones, and the last won't be out of contract until Feb, 2008, so
> maybe there will be more info by then.
>
> Thanks for all the feedback.
>
>

On 5/5/2007 9:11 AM, SMS wrote:
> unfrostedpoptart wrote:
>> Hi.
>>
>> I'm on Verizon now, but am thinking of switching to Cingular for
>> better coverage at my house and office. My wife and daughter have
>> Moto v325s, which support Verizon's VZNavigator feature, which lets
>> the phones act as GPS devices, including voice prompts and route
>> recalculation. It's a great feature that they have on over 20
>> different phones.
>>
>> I don't see anything like this on the Cingular web site. Do they have
>> something like this, or will soon? It would be very hard to get my
>> family to give up on that feature.
>
> Not yet, though they have promised it by the end of 2008.
>
> Yes, the V325 is very cool with the GPS feature. Are you sure that it's
> available on 20 different phones?
>
<snip>
I just counted 28.

http://www.verizonwireless.com/b2c/store/controller

Regards
--
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I got back here as soon as I could
(Don't forget to take out the trash)

Good judgment comes from experience,
and experience comes from bad judgment.
--Fred Brook

On Sat, 5 May 2007 15:30:29 -0500, "Thurman" <[email protected]>
wrote in <GP5%[email protected]>:

><[email protected]> wrote in message
>news:[email protected]...
>>> ..., but could display the aerial in enough detail to
>>> count the cars in the parking lot.
>> What size screen does your phone have? (Or was it a small parking lot?
>>
>
>Blackjack= 2.2" 320x240
>
>http://local.live.com/?v=2&sp=Point....e___&encType=1


I've been able to do that for quite a long time with Google Maps for
Mobile even on my relatively old Motorola V551. On my new RAZR V3xx
it's even faster, easier, and sharper. I don't see any "leap frog" by
Microsoft.

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Best regards, FAQ FOR CINGULAR WIRELESS:
John Navas <http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Cingular_Wireless_FAQ>

On Sat, 05 May 2007 07:11:38 -0700, SMS <[email protected]>
wrote in <[email protected]>:

Truthiness:

>Where do you live that you think Cingular's coverage will be better?
>There is almost no place in the entire U.S. where Cingular coverage is
>better.

Truth: AT&T/Cingular has better coverage than Verizon in a great many
places.

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Best regards, FAQ FOR CINGULAR WIRELESS:
John Navas <http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Cingular_Wireless_FAQ>

> >>> count the cars in the parking lot.
> I've been able to do that for quite a long time with Google Maps for
> Mobile even on my relatively old Motorola V551. On my new RAZR V3xx
> it's even faster, easier, and sharper. I don't see any "leap frog" by
> Microsoft.
It's a question of screen size and resolution. I've tried Google Earth
pictures, both still and video, and they work but they are fairly useless
on my Z520a.

On Tue, 08 May 2007 00:45:21 -0500, [email protected] wrote in
<[email protected]>:

>> >>> count the cars in the parking lot.
>> I've been able to do that for quite a long time with Google Maps for
>> Mobile even on my relatively old Motorola V551. On my new RAZR V3xx
>> it's even faster, easier, and sharper. I don't see any "leap frog" by
>> Microsoft.
> It's a question of screen size and resolution.

Then it's got nothing to do with Microsoft.

>I've tried Google Earth

Google Earth? The actual app is Google Maps for Mobile.

>pictures, both still and video, and they work but they are fairly useless
>on my Z520a.

Why? And what does it have to do with Microsoft?

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Best regards, FAQ FOR CINGULAR WIRELESS:
John Navas <http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Cingular_Wireless_FAQ>

>Then it's got nothing to do with Microsoft.
I must have missed something. I thought this was about navigation
using cell phones, not about Microsoft.

>Google Earth? The actual app is Google Maps for Mobile.
A message mentioned showing cars in parking lots. You mentioned using
Google Maps for Mobile. I mentioned using Google Earth, which can show
cars in parking lots.

>>pictures, both still and video, and they work but they are fairly useless
>>on my Z520a.
>
>Why? And what does it have to do with Microsoft?
The pictures from Google Earth, when displayed on a little Z520a, are
not big enough to be useful, IMHO. Whether or not a picture is big enough
to be useful obviously has nothing whatsoever to do with Microsoft.