The Associated Press has published a review of Traffic for Treo Smartphones.

EDISON, N.J. - Long Island looked as if it were on fire. That’s my view of the New York suburbs on the screen of a Treo Smartphone. A new piece of software gives me real-time traffic updates — flashing yellow, orange or red circles appear over a road map, depending on the level of hell they portend.

Meanwhile, my own turf — the much-maligned New Jersey — had never looked better.

With gas prices at eye-popping levels, Palm Inc.’s Traffic for Treo Smartphones couldn’t have come at a better time.

It costs $4.99 a month to get traffic updates for one city — a small price considering savings you’d get by dodging traffic jams and the stop-and-go nightmares that the radio reports euphemistically call “heavy volume.” You can get two cities for $7.99 a month, or all 10 for $14.99.

So far, the software covers metropolitan areas for New York, Los Angeles, San Diego, San Francisco, Houston, Atlanta, Detroit, Seattle, Chicago and Washington, D.C./Baltimore. You can download it from Palm’s Web site.

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