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Magellan RoadMate App for iPhone

Nov 16, 2009 gps navigation, magellan, phones 4 Comments

Our list of iPhone GPS apps keeps growing. Next in line is Magellan RoadMate App for iPhone. It works on iPhone 3G or 3GS and can provide spoken street names.

It is a one time purchase and there are no monthly fees involved. In addition to text-to-speech feature Magellan’s iPhone app also provides highway lane assistance, in-app music control, pedestrian mode, and onboard maps so you can use it without any data service.

You can already download Magellan RoadMate App for iPhone for US and Canada (iTunes) and on the way are other versions which include just Western US, Eastern US, and Europe.

Magellan RoadMate App for iPhone costs $80.

Thanks Allory.

G-Fi and navmii is go for iPod Touch GPS navigation

Nov 12, 2009 gps navigation 3 Comments

Just yesterday we talked about a GPS navigation solution for iPod Touch. Today we’ve got more news from Posimotion. Last time we mentioned G-Fi they were waiting for approval from Apple for their GPS navigation app navmii and it turns out they’ve got the green light already:

Navmii, the world’s first turn-by-turn navigation app for the iPod touch has been approved by Apple and will be available for download on 11/10/09. This first version contains UK maps, with US maps coming in the next couple of weeks and the rest of Europe coming shortly after. When paired with a G-Fi, the world’s first mobile network / GPS router, Navmii brings voice guided navigation to the iPod touch and classic iPhone, as well as the iPhone 3G and 3GS

TomTom car kit review

Nov 3, 2009 gps navigation, phones, reviews 1 Comment

Engadget has a decent review of the TomTom’s car kit for the iPhone 3G and 3GS. What they did was to use the iPhone 3GS with a regular car kit and let it use its own GPS receiver, and an iPhone 3G with the TomTom car kit.

In the end both iPhone’s performed very similarly suggesting it may not be a great idea to spend an $120 on the car kit on top of the $100 app… Read More …

MSN Direct service to shutdown in 2012

Nov 2, 2009 gps navigation, misc news 2 Comments

That MSN direct service you may have paid for (possibly with your Garmin Nuvi) will be shutting down on January 1 2012.

I guess in this era of 3G connectivity having to pay for a wimpy service over FM signals to get movie time updates and gas prices isn’t that lucrative. Of course there was the traffic service too.

For decent live traffic updates you can use crowdsourced Google Maps, Inrix apps, and probably bunch of other services.

google navigation

Oct 29, 2009 gps navigation, phones, software 5 Comments

Google – the supreme being of the internets – just announced their new GPS navigation application which will cost nothing. It will come standard on the Android 2.0 OS. And soon it will probably be offered on Blackberry, WinMo, and one day even the iPhone.

Before we go into the details of Google’s new turn-by-turn GPS navigation application – we would like to ask you? What do you think this will do to standalone GPS makers? Or more importantly what will all these iPhone GPS apps will do once it hits the iPhone? Do you think the stock prices changes of TomTom and Garmin were because of Google’s announcement?

Anyways – officially called Google Maps Navigation – the new application is an internet connected GPS navigation system with voice guidance. It will be part of Google Maps Mobile and will is already available on phone with Android 2.0.

Some features include ability to search by business name, search by voice, traffic view, search along your route, satellite view, street view, and finally a car dock mode for devices which support it.

A question that comes to mind is how will will caching of maps along your route will work – so you don’t have to rely on a 3G network. Can you get directions from LA to NY and have all the maps downloaded before you leave the Pacific?

On a separate note I would personally like to thank Google for not using Starbucks as an example destination. Instead they used In-N-Out :)

Check out all the videos: Read More …

MotionX-GPS Drive

Oct 1, 2009 gps navigation, phones, software 1 Comment

There’s a new GPS app from MotionX – MotionX-GPS Drive for the iPhone — a door-to-door navigation application that only costs $3/month. Can you beat that?

MotionX-GPS Drive offers turn-by-turn directions featuring always live and up-to-date maps, and points of interests.

It works on iPhone 3G and 3GS and the maps cover USA and Canada. It even has an interface to control the iPod music, and utilizes the iPhone 3GS compass.

Almost everything is over the air so its footprint on your iPhone should be minimal.

We’ll be sure update our iPhone GPS apps lists.

MotionX-GPS Drive Video:

nuviphone

Sep 30, 2009 garmin, gps navigation, phones Leave a comment

Couple of days ago we mentioned that nuviphone would cost $300 and be offered by AT&T. Well we were correct. The news is now official. Finally. It is here. Nuviphone is here!!!

AT&T Garmin announced the Garmin nüvifone G60 will be available beginning October 4.

Garmin’s president and COO Cliff Pemble said:

The nüvifone has Garmin’s easy-to-use interface, so navigating to a meeting directly from its calendar or contacts pages, or geotagging an email or photograph with a location stamp, is intuitive, useful and fun.

nuviphone G60 will be as functional as a high end Garmin nuvi, and will come with necessary hardware to be used in your car. The maps of nuviphone are locally stored which means you can still get directions in the middle of nowhere where there’s no AT&T. However if you’re somewhere near a cell tower it is almost guaranteed you’ll get a satellite fix sooner because the G60 utilizes A-GPS.

Other features of nuviphone include full web browsing via AT&T’s 3G network, or good old WiFi. There are connected services of course which include access to real-time traffic information, fuel prices, White Pages, weather and more. You’ve got a 3.2MP too which can automatically geotag your shots.

nuvifone G60 will cost $300 with a two year contract after a $100 mail-in-rebate. Nuvifone Premium Connected Services which includes traffic updates, white pages, weather, movie, local events and fuel price content are available for $6/month after a 30-day trial. This is on top of the data charges you’ll have to pay AT&T. What’s up with that….

TomTom iPhone car kit: $120

Sep 28, 2009 gps navigation, tomtom 4 Comments

As you may have already heard, the TomTom car kit for iPhone we’ve been talking about for months now has an official price. $120. This is obviously separate from the actual iPhone app which goes for $99. The new car kit will be compatible with iPhone 2G, 3G, and 3GS. Their short press release does not contain any other information and does not even mention iPod touch compatibility issues.

MotionX GPS giveaway

Sep 7, 2009 GPS giveaways, gps navigation, phones, software 15 Comments

Remember when we told you about the new version of MotionX GPS app for the iPhone? And if you read the whole thing you know we advised you to subscribe to our feed so you’d know when we would giveaway free promo codes for the app. Well the time is now. We’ve got three promo codes we would like you to have and all you have to do is leave a comment below.

If you haven’t heard yet MotionX is an app for iPhone 3G and 3GS (older iPhones do not have a GPS receiver). It is a great tool if you’re into biking, running, hiking, walking, geocaching, and sailing, or even driving. It uses MotionX open topographic and road maps to show your position and tracks and let you store up to 303 waypoints which you can email to share in Google Maps and Google Earth.

You can also save your tracks with MotionX – just like waypoints you can email them and your friends can look at them on Google Earth, Maps, and even Facebook. It has a stopwatch to record time, distance, speed and max speed and lets you add a photo to your activity.

Thanks to the compass in the new iPhone 3GS you can use MotionX to navigate and get an ETA (estimated time of arrival).

Once again to participate you need to subscribe to our feed and leave a comment below with an email address we can reach you at.

Duplicate entries, emails, IP addresses will be disqualified.

We’ll close this article for comments a week from today and after that we’ll announce the winners.

If you don’t win please do not whine. You can pick up the app from iTunes for only $3.

Good luck.

MotionX – new version is out

Sep 1, 2009 gps navigation, phones, software, tracking 5 Comments

Just following up on one of our favorite iPhone GPS apps – motionX-GPS – we saw that they just released a new version: V7.

This little app is very useful for outdoor activities such as cycling, running, sailing, etc… MotionX-GPS can save your tracks and lets you share them with your friends on Facebook or Twitter – overlaying where you’ve been on the familiar Google Maps platform.

Some of the new features on version 7 include:

• Direction-up maps and tracks utilizing the 3GS compass
• Support for new Bing map types — road, aerial and hybrid
• Optimized compass
• Auto compass for the iPhone 3GS
  switches automatically between magnetic and satellite mode.
• Save your travels via a track on the map page even if
  you haven’t used the stopwatch/track recorder feature.

You can get the latest MotionX-GPS app from the iTunes store for $2.99 – or stay tuned in case we do giveaway pretty soon ;)