Sprint customers soon will have a new GPS-enabled navigation service included in select Sprint data packs. Powered by TeleNav, Sprint Navigation will give customers the power to explore local restaurants and shops, or look for the lowest gas prices. Sprint Navigation will include the following features:

- Voice-guided and on-screen turn-by-turn GPS-enabled driving directions, which speaks street names for each turn
- 3-D moving maps similar to an in-car navigation system or personal navigation device
- Real-time intelligent traffic alerts and one-click rerouting
- Local search with more than 10 million points of interest
- Lowest price gas finder
- Interactive voice response for destination entry by speech instead of text or phone number
- Pedestrian mode
- Spanish-language option
- Pre-trip planning site at www.sprint.com/navigation

The Sprint Power Vision Navigation Pack will include unlimited use of Sprint Navigation, along with unlimited data access and Web browsing, Sprint Mobile Email, Sprint Picture Mail, Sprint Radio and Sprint TV, costing $20 per month.

Unlimited access to Sprint Navigation also will be included in the existing Sprint Power Vision Ultimate Pack and Sprint Power Vision Business Pack, both priced at $25 per month. All other Sprint Vision, Power Vision and PowerSource packs will include pay-per-day access to Sprint Navigation for $2.99 per 24-hour period of use.

Sprint Navigation will be available in April on most Power Vision phones. Available Sprint Navigation features will vary by phone.

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1. Posted by blueshift	Tue Apr 24, 2007 9:16 am
Sprint's on-screen navigation works great, as expected. I was very impressed. But there is a lot of confusion as to what is (or is not) included in the unlimited Navigation vision package. One customer rep tells me everything (including Telenav account) is included, another tells me the Telenav account is an additional $2.99/day or $9.99/month. I've talked to four of them over the phone, and two reps in a sprint store and they are evenly split (3-3). Sprint hasn't figured this out, and their online documentation does nothing to clarify this. Either they need to create accurate pricing tables, or publish some clear disclaimers.
2. Posted by blueshift	Sat Apr 28, 2007 7:50 pm
Got it straightened out. The Sprint PV Navigation pack includes Sprint Navigator (powered by Telenav). Though not 'officially' TeleNav, it actually is. And it works remarkably well (except near the white house, capitol hill and the pentagon, where the gps signal gets jammed). But it was nearly flawless on my round trip between Boston and Washington.

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