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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.

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1 MaryBeth-TeleNav { 07.23.08 at 10:00 am }

Justin - let me know if you’d be interested in trying out TeleNav GPS Navigator (www.telenav.com) and comparing it with VZ Navigator or Dash. We have real-time content like traffic alerts and rerouting, speech recognition, gas prices, 3D maps, etc. We’d love to see what you think!

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