SA GPS traffic service pricing comparison

[jes]

SA GPS traffic service pricing comparison

The prices of traffic services offered by personal navigation device vendors compared

 

[astrauss]

HD Traffic in the iPhone app is $38 (approx R260) per year

 

[LCBXX]

I reckon if TomTom goes for the standard RDS traffic receiver solution as opposed to their HD(GSM) product, it can be cheaper.

 

[ThatOtherGuy]

Didn't Nokia SA talk about live traffic services last year sometime? I wonder what's the progress on that

 

[tRoN]

Noob question...

How does the data get updated on the non-cellphone devices?... via GPRS, RDS or what?
My car radio always had the TA/TP settings for traffic alerts, so does this mean we will have this facility available now?

 

[xrapidx]

TomTom might be the most expensive, but I found it to be the most accurate.

 

[Mouse]

http://www.alk.com/copilot/

 

[astrauss]

http://www.alk.com/copilot/

...still a bit limited in SA :-(

 

[devilfp]

Noob question...

How does the data get updated on the non-cellphone devices?... via GPRS, RDS or what?
My car radio always had the TA/TP settings for traffic alerts, so does this mean we will have this facility available now?

The TP/TA setting in cars radios works like this: A radio station sends out a certain action ping on all frequencies and that activates on your radio which wil make it switch to the sending radio station frequency so that you can listen to a traffic update which is only for a big accident or something like that.

The only station that I know that does this is Classic FM.

 

[bekdik]

What is the situation with Ovi?