"Turn Your Cellphone Into A GPS!"? Not Exactly, But Still Kinda Cool

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Leszek Pawlowicz

at July 30, 2007 in GPS. 4 Comments

DialDirections is a new cellphone service where you:

1. Call their number 347-328-4667 (spells DIR-ECT-IONS)

2. Speak your current street intersection, and where you want to go (address, street intersection or chain store name)

3. Get back directions to your desired destination via a text message.

“Available in the greater metro areas of San Francisco, New York City and Los Angeles”; additional metro areas coming in the future. Free except for your cellphone service’s standard charges, which for many plans will be zero.

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4 Responses to “"Turn Your Cellphone Into A GPS!"? Not Exactly, But Still Kinda Cool”

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1 Tuyen Ho
Jul 30th, 2007 at 9:40 pm

Thanks for writing about Dial Directions. Just wanted to confirm that the phone number is 347-328-4667 (and not 4677 for the last four digits).
2 Leszek Pawlowicz
Jul 31st, 2007 at 8:11 am

Sorry – fixed.
3 askan
Aug 1st, 2007 at 11:33 pm

Hi Lezek

It sounds like a nice service, I wonder how long the text messages can be. Are navigation tools not working in these areas, or are they just not widespread?

Cheers

Askan.
4 Leszek Pawlowicz
Aug 2nd, 2007 at 8:54 am

GPS works everywhere, but not everyone has it. This just provides a useful alternative if you don’t have it.

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