Garmin Mobile™ Turns nTelos Phones into GPS Navigators
Garmin International Inc., a unit of Garmin Ltd. (NASDAQ: GRMN), the
global leader in satellite navigation, and nTelos Wireless, a leading
provider of wireless voice and data services, announced today that
nTelos customers can now begin navigating with Garmin Mobile. This
announcement also marks Garmin Mobile compatibility with BREW enabled
devices. Garmin will display Garmin Mobile on an nTelos handset at its
CTIA Wireless trade show booth (#6639) in Las Vegas, Nevada, April 1-3,
2008.
“This is an important win for Garmin and we are particularly excited
about it because it’s our first placement of Garmin Mobile for BREW,”
said Charles Morse, Garmin’s director of mobile and online marketing.
“Garmin Mobile is designed to be intuitive and will give nTelos
customers the tools they need to navigate their day with ease.”
“Customers want to talk, text, browse the web, listen to music and more.
Now nTelos customers have access to the leader in satellite navigation
with Garmin Mobile,” said Rob Cale VP of Wireless Marketing at nTelos.
“We are committed to providing state of the art service and features
while always providing the best value in wireless.”
Garmin Mobile is based on Garmin’s popular stand-alone automotive GPS
devices, and gives customers premium navigation features on their phone.
Garmin Mobile is a subscription-based, feature-rich application that
delivers maps, directions and turn-by-turn navigation on mobile phones.
It includes highly detailed street maps of the entire United States,
Canada and Puerto Rico. The database features over six million points of
interest, including hotels, restaurants, gas stations, ATMs, attractions
and more. Garmin Mobile’s “find along route” feature makes it easy to
find alternate destinations along the current route. For additional
customization and route optimization, users can select how they are
traveling – car, bicycle or foot – and Garmin Mobile will calculate the
most efficient route based upon the mode of transportation. Map data is
provided by NAVTEQ™ – a world leader in premium-quality mapping. Garmin
Mobile maps are server-based and give consumers the most recent mapping
available.
In addition to navigation, Garmin Mobile includes free access to
constantly-updating information like real-time traffic, fuel prices,
hotel prices and discounts, and weather forecasts. The real-time traffic
service identifies accidents, road construction or other incidents
affecting traffic, and navigates users around the congestion. Thanks to
the fuel price information, nTelos customers can navigate to the filling
station of their choice based on the filling station’s name, fuel price,
type of fuel, or distance to the station. Hotel information features
hotel ratings and discounts. Real-time weather information lets users
see weather conditions and forecast at their current location or
anywhere in the world.
Garmin Mobile is available on a number of nTelos handsets and customers
can download the application to their phone from the nTelos Brew Shop
for $9.99 per month. For more information, visit www.garmin.com/mobilephones
or www.ntelos.com
About nTelos Holding Corp.
NTELOS Holdings Corp. is an integrated communications provider with
headquarters in Waynesboro, VA. NTELOS provides products and services to
customers in Virginia, West Virginia, Kentucky, Ohio, Tennessee,
Maryland and North Carolina, including wireless phone service, local and
long distance telephone services, IPTV-based video services, and data
services for internet access and wide area networking. Detailed
information about NTELOS is available at www.ntelos.com.
About Garmin International Inc.
Garmin International Inc. is a subsidiary of Garmin Ltd. (Nasdaq: GRMN),
the global leader in satellite navigation. Since 1989, this group of
companies has designed, manufactured, marketed and sold navigation,
communication and information devices and applications – most of which
are enabled by GPS technology. Garmin’s products serve automotive,
mobile, wireless, outdoor recreation, marine, aviation, and OEM
applications. Garmin Ltd. is incorporated in the Cayman Islands, and its
principal subsidiaries are located in the United States, Taiwan and the
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