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Originally Posted by MBW
I'm going to disagree.
And a fundamental reason for that is that they don't deal with static maps.
Each one gets up-to-the-minute server-based maps for the entire
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False. Neither the maps, nor the POIs on these services such as Telenav are "up to the minute" and often not even up to the year or the last 2 years. The maps are on their servers, but they choose to not update them very often. There is alot of very out of date data stored on their servers. I tried it and it was very annoying to have to frequently use other methods (such as Goog411) to find addresses not in their "live, up to the minute" database.
Some of these same addresses missing from TeleNav were in the year-old static Garmin maps.
The other major failings of Telenav-like services is not being able to start using them when you are not in the cell coverage area and some of them will drop the routing if you need to take or make a phone call.
Nasty experience.