I figured finding a coffee shop would be a good test of a navigation and mapping program. Around here, there is a Dunkin Donuts on nearly every corner, so that's where we'll go. So we first select the Drive To button from the main menu.



You will then be given six choices for how you will find the place you want to go. We'll briefly cover them all, but for now lets concentrate on the Business option.



Once you pick Business, you are presented with nine ways to find the business. We will come back to Spell Name and Recent later, but the other options are subsets of the whole list of business categories available under Other. Since we want coffee, we'll take that quick path for Food/Coffee and press it. This will give you the first view of all the categories in an explorer style tree, with the food option open.



So we pick Coffee.



We are then asked where we want to find a Coffee shop at, defaulting to Current Location. If you chose Someplace Else, you can search using any of the six choices that was saw earlier. Since TeleNav does the search on its server, you can search anywhere... you aren't constrained here and can use this to find locations all over the country very easily. We will stick with Current Location and hit Search.



You will get a couple of different prompts here depending on what the current status of TeleNav is. If this is the first time you've accessed the GPS, then it will give you a prompt for "Finding Location". If you've just rebooted your PDAPhone, then you may need to hit this a time or two to get found... but once its running, this dialog won't come up again. In fact, I'm sitting indoors in my office in my basement using it right now, and no delay. I've never had a Bluetooth GPS work in my office, but this one does. Assuming it knows where it is, you'll then get the "Searching Prompt" while it finds the locations you are looking for. I have noticed a big difference in how long this takes using AT&T Wireless Edge vs. Sprint's EVDO. We are supposed to have 3G next month and then they should be similar. With Edge, it took about 4 seconds to return, while with EVDO you don't really notice any delay. This is a bigger difference when you are retrieving navigation instructions, with EVDO being a lot faster. But, they are both quite usable and rarely is the delay a concern.



The search results will always return 30 at a time, 10 to a page (on a Windows Mobile Professional device). They are ordered by distance. You can use the right arrow button to move to the next 10. If you keep going past the last 10, it will retrieve 30 more results. Looking at this chart, I find that Dunkin' Donuts isn't categorized under Coffee, but I could get to Starbucks pretty quick! Rather than try to figure out how Dunkin Donuts is categorized, I'll use another tool to find it quickly (Note: I have found the categorization of TeleNav to be pretty good in most cases, and I chose the one exception I've found... I don't believe that Dunkin Donuts is in any of the food categories, but not to worry... we'll still find it easily... and I'll have to report this to TeleNav for correction).