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that's bogus... I should pay a monthly fee AND buy a piece of hardware???

No freaking way. No one is going to buy that, especially when you can get bundled software that will do the same thing for free with most external receivers, not to mention GOOGLE MAPS which is free and probably more accurate (although turn by turn is sort of in its infancy with google right now, I'm sure they'll add more support for it soon- watching your route plotted and a blinking "you are here" dot on a satellite image map with live traffic info is something way cooler than telenav can offer).

Now, the fact that its not using AGPS is starting to make me think... The device does have AGPS for e911, I know because I've disabled it always being on to save battery power. And doesn't the AGPS need to function in order to pass legally mandated standards for CDMA networks? Why would they opt to write TeleNav for an external receiver unless:
a) The AGPS driver was unstable at release (as the first set of rumors go), and when it is fixed the Telenav will be able to use it as it does all other phones.

b) The AGPS driver is actually FINE, but TeleNav might know that soon we will get our stand-alone GPS functionality working, so the software was written to use a standard WM GPS port instead of the AGPS signals. Unfortunately, they might have jumped the gun in releasing the Mogul version, and the standalone mode of the GPSone chip hasn't been enabled yet. So they are requiring that you buy the external receiver if you want to use it now!

Both are just theories, although I'm leaning more towards b... I know, it might be wishful thinking, but doesn't it seem odd that this is the first device that TeleNav supported an external receiver for? Doesn't the AGPS on the phone work for e911 and sprint family locator (I checked, the mogul is listed as compatible devices)? If so, why else wouldn't they use it?

Makes you go hmmm....