TeleNav launching free HTML5-based turn-by-turn GPS service
TeleNav, one of the largest back-end providers of GPS navigation services for smartphones and other in-car turn-by-turn navigation systems, has announced the upcoming release of a free HTML5-based voice-guided GPS navigation service that works on your iPhone through the Safari Mobile Browser.
“This is an enormous amount of added value for any mobile, location-based website or app focused on travel, shopping, local search, deals and more,” said Sal Dhanani, co-founder and vice president of products for TeleNav. “With one line of code, you can give your customers one-click access to premium, voice-guided turn-by-turn directions to any location, including hotels, restaurants, merchants or deal locations. Customers never need to leave your app.”
As mentioned, the service will be completely browser-based allowing it to run on just about any smartphone, including the iPhone 4 and iPhone 4S. Developers will have the opportunity to add just a single line of code to their existing website or apps, which will allow users to jump directly into the browser for turn-by-turn navigation from within any app, or directly from Safari itself.
If all goes according to plan, we should start seeing it in apps come 2012.
Source: TeleNav
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awesome with the functionality of HTML5 it will be really cool now.
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Can you imagine that written in Flash? It will take a MacBook Pro to run it...
i am really interested to see how they handle the audio playback for the directions, as the last thing i remember is that HTML5 audio playback doesn't work all that well and required direct user interaction for the audio or video to play.
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