TeleNav Press Release

TeleNav Wins Two Gold Mobile Star Awards for Location-Based Services

Oct. 22, 2007

Receives top rating in consumer and enterprise software categories

Sunnyvale, Calif. – October 22, 2007—TeleNav, Inc., the first company to launch a GPS service for cell phones in the U.S., today announced it has won two Gold Mobile Star Awards™ from MobileVillage®, the 14-year leader in market development and news services about mobile technology.

The annual Mobile Star Awards aim to honor and promote the best companies, products, deployments and leaders in mobile and wireless technology. Winners are chosen by subscribers to Go Mobile®, MobileVillage’s free online newsletter sent to technology executives, mobile professionals, IT managers, developers and top tech journalists.

TeleNav has been recognized with the following awards:

Gold Star, Consumer Software: Navigation / Location-Based Services, for TeleNav GPS Navigator™ service
Gold Star, Enterprise Software: GPS / Location-Based Services, for TeleNav Track™ service

“Today there are more mobile and wireless products and more mobile users than ever before,” says MobileVillage Editor Gary Thayer. “So there’s a natural need for people to see and compare what’s out there. This year nearly 2,000 MobileVillage readers cast votes. These people have a great knowledge of mobile products and success stories, and are eager to share that knowledge with others.”

“The location-based services industry has seen tremendous growth and innovation over the past year, both in the consumer and enterprise markets,” said HP Jin, CEO and co-founder of TeleNav. “To be honored by MobileVillage readers for our innovation and leadership is testament to the creativity and dedication of the TeleNav team. We feel this award further validates our position as the emerging leader in consumer navigation services.”

TeleNav GPS Navigator provides turn-by turn, GPS-enabled voice and on-screen driving directions for mobile devices. The most recent version incorporates social-networking components such as location sharing and business reviews. The service also features real-time traffic alerts and one-click rerouting with an estimated time of arrival (ETA) always displayed.

TeleNav Track leverages GPS and wireless technologies to provide a complete mobile workforce management system. It includes a variety of essential business management features, including GPS-enabled tracking / reporting and navigation, wireless job dispatching, flexible wireless forms and wireless barcode scanning.

This year’s Mobile Star Awards winners are posted online at http://www.mobilevillage.com/awards.htm.

Media Contacts

Mary Beth Lowell
Communications Manager
425-531-0122 phone
media@telenav.com

About TeleNav Inc.

TeleNav, Inc., a privately-held company headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, was the first to launch a cell phone GPS system in the United States. Deployed by 14 carriers in 29 countries, TeleNav is a global leader in wireless location-based services (LBS). Currently, the company’s solutions are available in four continents, including North and South America, Asia and Europe.

TeleNav’s solutions include GPS navigation, Mobile Resource Management (MRM), social networking and local search. The company’s flagship service, TeleNav GPS Navigator™, offers functionalities comparable to in-car systems and standalone navigation devices, such as automatically-updated maps and business locations, full-color 3D moving maps, traffic alerts with one-click rerouting, location-sharing, business reviews, speech recognition, Wi-Fi hotspot finder, gas price finder and more. TeleNav also delivers its award-winning navigation service on the TeleNav Shotgun™, a standalone GPS personal navigation device (PND) tailored specifically for business travelers. TeleNav’s enterprise application, TeleNav Track™, incorporates GPS-enabled tracking, time sheets, wireless forms and navigation. TeleNav Track is a widely adopted service with over 9,000 customer organizations using it today.

TeleNav services are available on more than 500 wireless devices and run on most major mobile platforms currently available. TeleNav’s partners include Alltel, AT&T, Bell Mobility, Boost Mobile, China Mobile, deCarta, Ford Motor Company, Hewlett-Packard, HTC, INRIX, LG, Motorola, NAVTEQ, NII Holdings, Nokia, Palm, Qualcomm, Research In Motion (RIM), Rogers, Samsung, Sanyo, Sprint Nextel, T-Mobile Austria, T-Mobile UK, T-Mobile USA, Telcel, Tele Atlas, Verizon Wireless and Vivo Brazil.

For more information on TeleNav, please visit www.telenav.com.

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