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TechCrunch Giving Away Free Dash Express For Nothing But Creativity

by Justin

Interested in getting your hands on a Dash Express without forking out the cash? Head over to TechCrunch where a Dash is up for grabs, and for nothing more than a good idea. Submit your best app idea in the comments by midnight PST on Saturday; or if you really, really want the big prize submit a developed app to up your chances.

The device, provided by Dash and Trulia, isn’t the only prize though. A couple of runners-up will get TechCrunch t-shirts for their contributions, and hey don’t complain, you’re not paying for them.

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September 25, 2008 1 Comment

Trulia Launches iPhone App: Will This Piss Off Your Real Estate Agent?

by Justin

Just a couple of weeks after Frontdoor.com introduced an iPhone application that utilizes the smartphone’s GPS capabilities to locate New York-based real estate listings, Trulia has launched their own. Trulia’s new app covers all of the United States however, but tailors the listing to a user’s specific location. It’s convenient and free, and displays all kinds of information such as price, square footage, number of bedrooms, and pictures for each listing. From each listing, it’s only one more tap of the touchscreen to either call or email the property’s agent.

While Trulia’s new app may be useful for sellers’ agents, it definitely has the potential to be a disadvantage to buyers’ agents by effectively ‘cutting out the middle man’. But it all depends on its popularity. Judging by the 5000 downloads of the Frontdoor app in its first two weeks, Trulia will probably do okay. And it’s not going to be limited to the iPhone either. Trulia apps are coming for the Blackberry and BlackJack mobile phones and Dash Navigation’s Dash Express. Additionally, it will be programmed for various operating systems and devices made by Nokia and Sony Ericcson down the line.

via businessweek

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August 26, 2008 1 Comment

GPS Wars: Does Verizon’s VZ Navigator 4 Compare To The Dash Express?

by Justin

With GPS-enabled wireless devices throwing the PND market for a loop, it’s about time a standalone GPS unit was pitted against a mobile navigational app. Over at Laptop Mag that’s exactly what’s been done with the internet-connected Dash Express pitted against Verizon’s VZ Navigator 4, tested on the LG Voyager. So who took home the belt? In terms of maps, Dash took top spot mainly thanks to a bigger screen. But despite the fact that the maps looked better for this very reason, VZ Navigator 4 on the LG Voyager actually won the screen and interface category thanks to its ease of use and intuitive nature. Round three pitted voice directions on the two devices against each other and once again VZ Navigator won, but only because there are more voice options to choose from.

We though local search would be a sure bet for victory for the Dash Express. After all it’s an internet-connected device and search is supposedly one of its stronger points. But lo and behold, VZ Navigator wins again with more accurate and relevant results. When it comes to real-time traffic info there is no beating the Dash Express. It’s constant cellular connection both sends and receives data on local traffic conditions and historic traffic data means current traffic condition predictions are nearly spot on.

Overall things don’t look so good for standalone GPS devices as VZ Navigator won the contest. It actually beat the Dash Express at its own game. But we will say that for real-time traffic data, the Dash Express is still the way to go.