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what's up everyone jon rettinger here one of the big knocks on the iphone 3g when it was released was that it lacked to turn-by-turn navigation option to really take advantage of the built-in gps you're limited to just using google maps but with the release of OS 3.0 for the iphone 3g and the iphone 3gs that has been rectified so let me show you one of the rec defers if that's a word this is AT&T navigator for the iphone 3g or 3gs which gives you full turn-by-turn navigation with voice guidance so this application is free to download from the App Store but it is going to cost you nine ninety-nine a month it is a little bit expensive but if you're like me you get lost trying to drive home having your turn by turn navigation system always in your pocket is a well worth the price you know certainly would be nice it was bundled but for me at least 999 is a very worthwhile price let me show you what it looks like go ahead and fire it up AT&T Navigator and it's powered by TeleNav which is really the same system that powers a lot of these cell phone navigation systems like the ones found on sprint I know uses it I believe that powers verizon's navigator t-mobile really anything with the GPS odds are you're going to see something from TeleNav now this is just one of the first turn-by-turn options that's going to be available as we saw a few months ago TomTom is going to be releasing their own turn-by-turn navigation option i'm sure other companies will follow suit ones that won't have a subscription model like this but for right now this is the best available and you get your nice warning when you open it up don't attempt to use this while driving we're not driving so first let me talk about some of the negatives about this and i get into all the good thing because really are a lot of good negatives certainly the price and i also don't like that you can't type in landscape and the last really knock on this is that you do need a data connection for it to work so if you're lost out in the middle of the booties and need to fire this thing up and going to work for you so your agreed with a very familiar navigation option this is very intuitive to navigate drive to you can select a ton of favorites that you want to put in their recent places address business airport intersection if you want to do an address you can type it or call it which is silly i'll call it does is just call a number which you can just do using your phone but if you want to type it you can go ahead and type the house number the street the city the address it really is quite easy so let's go ahead and go back you can do business you can search for local businesses airports value intersections and again you can type it or call it so let's go ahead and pick airport there's an airport right by me for those who have been watching my videos for a while you know before I moved you knew very well there is an airport buying because you heard a plane fly by every four minutes and let me tell you I pretty much lived in the airport it sounded like I did so we'll go ahead to Orange County Airport you can see what the routing looks like so you actually will say the street names too so right now it's saying quail ridge so it's a right turn on quail ridge as you're driving up to it in that very and the next thing I was going to say is this also gives you real-time traffic and it'll rear out for traffic if you do have excessive congestion in a way you're driving and get a little symbol up here in the upper left-hand corner and if you tap it it will rear out you for the least traffic so that is actually quite nice so let me show you what your options are here when you're in the actual gps favors pretty straightforward navigation screen as i mentioned no support for landscape unfortunately you can get a summary of where you're going to go so you can get a route summary of traffic summary or map summary the route summary gives you a very simple route to go back in traffic summary it'll check traffic and they'll tell you how much crap if you have based on color see right there it says minimize all delays so it will rear out you to minimize delays and map summary pulls up a map very similar what you find on google maps you can search along the route for anything you're looking for you can and trip so let's go ahead and and trap a notch go through and show you the rest of the options and just know this doesn't work actually does work quite well so we just went through the search let me show you the maps and traffic option and it should look very similar to what you're used to with Google Maps you've got a 2d or 3d option so we'll go ahead and change 3d get some kind of cool navigation and you can scroll along and just looks and like it's in 3d and you hit the little gps button down there it'll pull up where you are nothing really that exciting so let's go back to the home screen tools & extras I'll show you what we have here you can set your favorites you can choose your preferences you can choose whether you want to route it fastest traffic optimized shortest prefer streets prefer highway or if you're walking if your pedestrian flows of you that are in big city it's like it free to New York and you need some pestering guidance that is always helpful traffic alerts on or off you can turn off the audio options with street names or no street names you really can customize this and make it really nice and easy to use so overall I've been very impressed with the TeleNav system I used it on the palm pre and really liked using it it really is this very same experience now for AT&T I can't tell you how happy I am to finally have navigation on my iPhone I said earlier I get lost really easily and having this little bit of a safety net is quite nice I would certainly prefer if it wasn't 999 but for me to have that safety net net convenience it's worth it certainly i'll look at other non subscription models when they become available and see if maybe that offers a better option so hope you enjoyed for exclusive content be sure to follow me on twitter twitter com / John for lakers i'll put a link up in the sidebar and i'll see you guys in the next video bye bye