With the Consumer Electronics Show in Vegas right now, there are over a hundred thousand new people that have been unleashed on the city -- and finding your way to where you need to go can be a mess in a crazy mish-mash of people like that.No fear - GPS firms are everywhere this week at CES touting their hardware and software solutions. In fact, mobile carrier Sprint Nextel and partner TeleNav announced a GPS navigation service at the start of CES that features traffic rerouting features on a phone.
Now, for those of you that live in high-traffic areas with cabs-a-plenty, this may be a lifesaver. TeleNav's president says that the system keeps tabs on traffic ahead of a subscriber's vehicle and alerts users if there are traffic problems -- and then presents re-routing solutions. Think of that -- something that alerts you to traffic snarls up ahead (out of eyesight) and then suggests a different path. Now, that sounds like a very useful mobile tool to me -- among many others that seem like novelties.
