Telenav is extremely slow.

T-Mobile is almost worthless if you leave any major city or major highway.

I recently went to 3 islands in Hawaii, and also drove from Memphis to South Mississippi. Both times I had friends who had Verizon. They almost never had any problems connecting with their service. With T-Mobile I almost never had any service outside of major cities or major freeways.

After 12 years with T-Mobile I am looking to switch to Verizon.

The GPS problem is common with HTC devices my Touch Pro 2 takes a while to fix even with WinMo’s quickgps page and it will randomly lose signal.

I wanted to try it but it does not seem available in europe. strange…
Does it
work in europe for US users ?

I can’t barely hear the voice prompts from my Telenav. How does one control the volume? Or is it possibel at all?

i totally love gmaps on my ocean cant wait to try out on the G1

Good points. I uninstalled TeleNav and went back to my TomTom. I’m interested to try it again after the Android 1.5 update. The GPS acquisition times are supposed to improve, but I don’t know what updates Telenav has made.

You forgot to mention that telenav software requires the data plan which not all users have. Futhermore, anyone with a data plan outside of 3G service will not be able to use telenav. Thus, if you’re lost in death valley and want to use your GPS to get you out of there, you can’t. You’re already dead.

Thus for the ultimate GPS solution, anything is better than Telenav. For city-only GPS (with data plan+monthly fee) telenav is like a regular GPS handheld (no service fee) with a few more features, but you’ll pay for them.

The one app that should exist for android (but does not) is something that uses a full local database of POI and maps that does not rely on wifi/3g for basic directions. Anyone with a 2-8gb minisd would be able to fit the database on there pretty easily with room to spare.

The best alternative I know of is AndNav2. It is much like google maps (but buggy), free, and is the only app that actually caches map information for offline use. It actually provides downloads of entire country maps cached if you don’t want to cache it yourself. I have the US cached at reasonable zoom, and my home city cached at all zoom levels. This ofcourse does not provide POI or directions offline. You need wifi/3g for that.

In short: Slow, Laggy, sluggish, did I mention slow?

Other than that, has some very nice options. lots of information and a easy to use interface.

When you hit traffic and need to re-route your out of luck. It takes so long for it to recalculate that by the time it has given you a new direction to go you will have already gotten lost and need to recalculate again. Oh and you have to force recalculate, it really does to do it on its own.

Actually I think the GPS taking forever is a telenav problem. Every other G1 app that uses the GPS finds the satellites pretty quick. When I open Google Maps or my other traffic program, or Tunewiki, its seconds before I have a fix. But like you said, It takes forever to find the sats in telenav. Even more annoying is that when I reach the biggest city in my area, there’s always traffic, so it tells you, then when you tap the icon to avoid the traffic, it has to look for the satellites again, so by the time you get a new route, it tells you to keep going the same way you’re going. I mean really, if the gps has tracked me for 20 miles already, why does it fail so bad on a reroute.

Funny thing. We have tunnels here, and the satellite is lost when you enter one, but found almost instantly when you exit. Yet it takes 5 mins of sitting in the cold car waiting for the software to find the sat and give me a route. Why?

Another issue. I think telenav anticipates traffic no matter what. There is one major city in my area and I know that the interstate through its downtown is a bad idea at certain times, but I work overnight, so why does it tell me to take the long way and bypass downtown at 10pm on a Sunday night. The software also doesn’t like to give up on a route. With my garmin I would start out headed in the general direction and if I went the wrong way, it would find an alternate route. Not Telenav, it will keep telling you to make a u-turn or take a side street back, even though it could just tell you a route based on the way you’re headed.

The Garmin I have (nuvi 250) was only $60 and the only shortcomings are lack of an ability to use custom voices, and lack of traffic info. I may have to switch back after my telenav trial ends because $60 versus $9 a month for software that can’t adjust to one missed turn is just a fail. Telenav doesn’t even tell me I’ve missed my exit until I’m 1/4 mile past it. Wow. Just not ready for prime time.

Happy to say that at least the Tier-3 Tech support staff at TeleNAV are on top of things. They were able to get me up and going within 3 minutes after being transferred to them.

Used the app to get turn-by-turn directions on my way back to the office. The routing gave me a correct route but not the shortest route. I guess I’ll look into adjusting the settings for this app to achieve more accurate routing.