AT&T Navigator gets ho-hum user responses..

 

 AT&T launced it's "Navigator" service at Wireless CITA 2008 and it's off to a rocky start. The new service features interactive speech recognition which seems to work well, but the GPS and routing configurations are getting some complaints already in popular user forums..

 

 It's a built-in feature for these AT&T handset models:

BlackJack™ by Samsung
BlackJack™ II by Samsung (Real-Time Traffic compatible)
HP iPAQ hw6510/6515
HP iPAQ hw 6920/hw6925
Palm® Treo™ 680
Palm® Treo™ 750
HTC Tilt 8925 (Real-Time Traffic compatible)
AT&T 8125
Nokia E62
BlackBerry® 8700c (Real-Time Traffic compatible)
BlackBerry® Pearl™ (Real-Time Traffic compatible)
BlackBerry® 8800 (Real-Time Traffic compatible)
BlackBerry® Curve™ 8300 (Real-Time Traffic compatible)
BlackBerry® Curve™ 8310 (Real-Time Traffic compatible)
Motorola L6
Motorola L7
Motorola v3i
Motorola v365
Motorola v557
Motorola MOTO Q™ 9h Global (Real-Time Traffic compatible)
Nokia 6682
Pantech Duo™
Sony Ericsson W300i
Sony Ericsson w600i
Sony Ericsson W810i
Sony Ericsson Z520a
Sony Ericsson Z525a

  and is available through AT&T to these devices, as an account add-on:

Palm® Treo™ 650
AT&T 2125
HTC 3125
AT&T 8525

  and/or other "AT&T Navigator approved mobile devices".

 Navigator also offers updated estimated arrival time(s) and traffic information.. but those services also appear to have a few inherent bugs, too.

 Another valid & common complaint we're seeing:
The product is obviously TeleNav, but Telenav refuses to support it and calls to AT&T offer no individual dept. for support, nor does AT&T Customer Service seem to be aware there is such a product, or where to direct calls.

 

Navigating with speech, a la AT&T

 

 Via SlashPhone.com:
"AT&T announced today at CITA Wireless 2008, the immediate availability of its company-branded GPS-enabled navigation service, AT&T Navigator. The AT&T Navigator service features audible and visual turn-by-turn driving directions, including full-color moving maps, using GPS directly from your wireless phone. Working with TeleNav, the service is available on GPS-capable PDAs and handsets."

 

 "The service also provides integrated speech recognition for address entry and points of interest search. You simply press a single button on your phone and speak the name of the business or address you want to find, and AT&T Navigator will provide voice and on-screen turn-by-turn directions to your destination. Integrated speech recognition is currently available on BlackBerry devices, but AT&T plans to make this feature, along with other value-added services, available on more handsets in 2008."

 Cool. Very cool.