Comments on: RIM quietly acquires Dash Navigation?

By: phoebusboy

phoebusboy — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 19:08:56 +0000

Dash made a great product, highly customizable and functional- too bad no GPS company can figure out how to integrate a radar detector into these dashboard units. I have no interest in plugging in three devices into the cigarette lighter. Maybe RIM will look at what drivers want from their navigation units now.

By: shilpa

shilpa — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 19:58:12 +0000

Do u still have it? If so,how much are you selling it for?

Shilpa

By: kulkulkan

kulkulkan — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 21:47:52 +0000

I think this was purely financial transaction to buy tax-losses of Dash for cheap (Dash had raised $70M). The technology/IP is a throw-in/bonus.

If they wanted make a strategic acquisition for GPS, there are much better companies still available. This ain’t it.

By: travis

travis — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 04:40:55 +0000

Watch out! Nokia’s got Navteq!

By: phillip82

phillip82 — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 23:27:49 +0000

Probably it helps RIM to compete more head-to-head with Nokia in Europe. I can’t imagine RIM wants to compete on navigation with AT&T and Verizon who are content with their own navigators. I noticed that Nokia Maps is missing from Nokia E71 on AT&T network – instead, AT&T Navigator is preloaded.

By: Beeve

Beeve — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 20:58:09 +0000

Following in the footsteps of other handset manufacturers(see Nokia’s acquisition of NAV this past year). This is just to keep pace. BB are a bit behind in NAV.

By: bonesb

bonesb — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 20:02:48 +0000

The acquisition of Dash makes for a pretty cool new application one of these days. RIM needs to license Navteq data here in the US. Teleatlas data in the US blows chunks.

By: Justin

Justin — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 19:47:17 +0000

AT&T would block it anyway…

By: kenny817

kenny817 — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 19:35:56 +0000

Sprint Tour to be released mid-July!

By: grrr

grrr — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 18:45:31 +0000

@stevieG tuh tuh tuh tuh TOUR.

By: CTSLICK

CTSLICK — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 18:23:51 +0000

The concept behind the Dash was solid and I absolutely loved the sending addresses to my Dash over the internet. The online services they were integrating we almost enough to make we want to buy the wireless service for it. But the hardware was a bit bulky for my taste, They might have used a little help there. So maybe I’ll hold onto it instead of selling it, though I doubt RIM’s interest will have much to do with hardware.

By: jazzyl

jazzyl — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 18:23:29 +0000

Nice can’t wait to see what RIM wants to do with all that hardware!!! Hey @ boygenius nice photoshop “RIMDASHBERRY” I like it!!!!!!!!!!

Sent via BlackBerry.

By: mike

mike — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 18:19:53 +0000

I still have my beta test unit, they never asked for it back or sent anything else other than the brand new unit in a retail box with no return label. System worked great BTW esp. the traffic updates and warnings.

By: Nick Bostic

Nick Bostic — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 18:18:35 +0000

I really hope something good comes out of this. I love my Bold, but AT&T Navigator isn’t very good and Google Maps doesn’t help with turn-by-turn, so I could definitely see myself using this. Maybe from the App World?

By: C Jizzle

C Jizzle — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 16:43:28 +0000

The best-selling GPS Navigation apps today on BlackBerry are the White-labeled carrier versions (VZ Nav powered by NIM), AT&T Nav and Sprint Nav (powered by TeleNav), as well as the TeleNav, Garmin-branded GPS Nav apps. This move seems to be RIM’s play to increase it’s revenue by selling its own GPS Navigation, probably thru their new apps store. Smart move!

By: David Thande

David Thande — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 16:35:59 +0000

If this is true. I’m excited! Storm 3!!

By: Austin850

Austin850 — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 16:32:12 +0000

This could be really nice. Can’t wait to see what happens.

Posted from BGR Mobile (iPhone).

By: Fahad

Fahad — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 16:29:10 +0000

smart move on RIM’s part, lets see how all this plays out

By: Perspective

Perspective — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 16:23:41 +0000

The key line here is “lack of user adoption.” After all, there is a reason Dash discontinued its hardware manufacturing.

By: veks

veks — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 16:18:04 +0000

Bis or bes on a dash system… I look forward to seeing what comes out of this.

By: sean

sean — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 15:55:56 +0000

HA…I have a Dash. Its actually really cool but I don’t use it cause I moved back to my home city. Only Gps with yahoo search…you can find anything while driving around. Anybody wanna buy it?? I love it but I don’t need it anymore.

By: StevenGlansburg

StevenGlansburg — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 15:48:25 +0000

cue the Tour Trolls….

By: Nerdherder

Nerdherder — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 15:46:38 +0000

Hmmmmmm, the possibilities. BB certainly needs an upgrade to BB Maps, maybe this will be it?

By: Colin

Colin — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 15:37:58 +0000

Lots of room out there for integration of in car gps with phones (specifically appointments and their locations). For the right price this could be a good move.