I hear they'll be adding the ability to modify routes within the app and do voice turn-by-turn -- but there's no telling when that'll be available.

I would say it's not ready for full release yet, but if they think they'll expand the beta to everyone through App World, ok.

Why is it that I'm surprised 'again' that this app is not available in the UK?

Maybe one day....

It looks like an Atari game...

Does this require BB Maps to function? I D/L'd it and tried to run it but received an error.

I'm getting really annoyed with RIM; here's another app that we can't use in the UK. Just the other day we had the podcast app and now we have this. Do RIM think we don't mind them releasing apps for North America only. We pay a lot of money for our Blackberry phones, why can't we access all the apps?

Yet another app I don't get to try out.

Glad to see it works in Richmond :)

Not available for my device or carrier!! 9800/ATT

Cool. I was in the beta. Used it a couple times. It worked most of the time. Remember getting errors other times. Unfortunately my berry is out for repair and Im stuck using android(its not bad, prefer bb though).
I think this app will be integrated into bbmaps. If they do that and add voice turn by turn, they got a winner, though still not as good as ovi maps from nokia.

sucks i have to install crapworld to test this

Oh Dash... how do I miss you...

Blackberry Maps doesn't work with 5.0 and higher, so I don't think blackberry traffic will either.

This app would be cool but it only works with BB maps!

Been in on the beta and it just lacked so much for me to use it as a GPS assistant. Not having turn-by-turn, and the dependence on BB maps, it makes no sense to me except that it's free. But... I can get everything this offers plus turn by turn voice directions in a free app called Waze. www.waze.com

This could be a nice app for showing traffic, but you need BB Maps and the two of them just take up too much of the already limited application memory. Time to delete.

not available for the 9800??? come on

Just my luck,no OS6 love.

is this any different than the traffic delay readout that comes built-in to google maps? i.e., the program shows you traffic, and your eta, when driving to a destination *within* the mapping app, not separately.

Not for Mexico as well :( it would work a lot in Mexico City :(

there's not much to it graphics-wise (at the moment), but once you get used to this app & its features it is quite useful...and once they fully integrate it with BB maps it will be even better.

also, in the beta zone they indicated that it WILL be available for the Torch and 6.0 sometime within the next couple weeks.

Someone?

I beta tested this, and it's as good as it looks. I input an adress and it made me drive past my destination, then turn down this street, that street, then eventually get there. In reality it added time to my drive. There is no change route option, there is no turn-by-turn directions. That picture is basically all it is. You can change it from: distance to go, speed, and street name directions. Thats it, plain and simple. Literally.

This app works pretty good comparing to waze. Anyone complaining about small amount of rerouting and recalculating should try waze. U will be loving traffic in no time. It's pretty accurate and don't keep taking me in circles. I can only talk for Toronto area, but ETA and traffic info is surprisingly very accurate. BTW, what's wrong with bb maps. I use it all the time when stupid google maps can't find it.

This really shows how far in the past RIM is actually living in. Pathetic.

I installed and tried it out. It was really good. At one glance, you have all your needed information right there, nice and big.

For sole driving purpose, it's better than g**gle maps.

This is a great app, although its a beta version. I tried it on my cousin's unit and made him happy. I'll get one blackberry phones one of these days...:)..

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What is happening here? People advertising shoes and clothing? Is it time to go somewhere else? BGR maybe?
I thought we were discussing Blackberry Traffic beta,
well it works on my Sprint 9650.
Thank you for the info. (BB Traffic..)

Don't tell me, let me guess.. It doesn't work outside the U.S. right?! Ho Hum :-(

I tested it very lil but it worked great in the little amount of time

a world wide device but nothing worth mentioning ever works for other countries e.g UK, other than the US and Canada.

March 2011, hurry up and get here so I can ditch RIM and this phone once and for all.

Looks like I better re-load BB Maps on my unit and download this app. I usually use Google Maps to get my directions to certain places, but maybe this'll be worth a try. How is it on battery life?

Works well, simple (very simple) & straight forward. It would have been a great app 1-2 years ago, in 2010 it seems dated. But it works and I found it to be very accurate. RIM aquired DASH GPS and correct me if wrong, but wasnt DASH unique because it allowed users to report traffic issues as they happened in real time and then relaying that to other DASH users. One would think having an app like this, constantly connected and data being updated in real time (like BBM always connected) would be an unique in the current gps app market place. But I would still would like the ability to shut the app down.

i dont understand the point of an app with such a narrow purpose

great app. extremely accurate over the last month.

I've been playing with it a bit and kind of like it - narrow purpose well done apps are a GOOD thing on a phone in my mind. Two thoughts come to mind...

1.) a bit of flexibility in the screens would be nice so I can set one up that has the combination of pieces of information that I like without changing screens

2.) emailing a trip detail CSV to myself (not a GPS track, but the info gathered/processed/logged by the app during the trip) when I've arrived would be really nice so I can build up my own library of alternate routes and see how long _I_ take (not just the 'average of all traffic). What mind then be nice and/or scary is for the app to watch where I travel and when it looks like I'm taking the same turns to go to a particular destination pop up and suggest that as a possible/default route... something like "It looks like you are headed to X, if you are, your eta is 15min" (yes, shades of clippy, and certainly should be an OPTION).

ps. sorry to hear that folks outside of the US aren't happy that this exists. Of course, I'm annoyed that the GSM carriers here in the US suck and the US phone carrier situation in general is heavily anticompetitive (thanks FCC) and I can't just buy all the neat GSM phone gear that I read about online constantly, so maybe I'm not all THAT sad that other people get to share a bit of pain. Just kidding! Don't flame!

Anybody have any clue why I get an Error type 1: HttpAsnRequet IO Exception error?

I get Error type 1: HttpAsnRequet IO Exception error on my Bell 9700

Completely worthless...it couldn't find my home or work address. It suggested a different street in a town 30 minutes away.

. . . it eats battery power like crazy, I used it last night from work to home, about 32 miles and the batter drain was from 60% down to 23%, to me that is horrendous.

I can't get it to make nice with the "server". So for now it is just a vertual paperweight. I know it is in Beta, but nowhere to leave any feedback.

Looking forward to real live working release!

Does BB traffic run in the background if started then sent to the background?

IS this app no longer available?

anyone have an OTA for this... (not via appworld)