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TeleNav Shotgun connected GPS

November 10, 2008 by Rich Owings  
TeleNav Shotgun

Despite the demise of Dash and the suspension of Magellan's connected GPS, another entry into the market appeared this weekend — the TeleNav Shotgun. Known more for their cell phone navigation product, TeleNav has jumped fully into the PND market with a product that costs $299 and comes with a three month trial subscription. After that, connection fees run from $11.99 a month to $239 for two years.


The Shotgun carries a healthy 11 million POIs on board, should your subscription expire or you find yourself out of cellular range. Traffic data is provided by INRIX and maps by Tele Atlas, but I haven't seen anything yet that indicates if the live search function is powered by Yahoo! or Google.

GPS Review has posted a review, and says in part…

"TeleNav is off to a good start with the Shotgun. While I ran across a
decent list of things that needed to be touched up, most of those were
relatively small issues that can be addressed through software updates."

Meanwhile, Engadget has a nice gallery posted.

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