TomTom car kit review
Nov 3, 2009 gps navigation, phones, reviews
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…
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Google Maps Navigation reviews
Nov 2, 2009 gps navigation, reviews, software
Google – master of the universe – as you know came up with their own, completely free GPS navigation program, Google Maps Navigation. There are a few reviews around and we thought we could share them with you:
gadgeteer: Mostly positive review but the down sides are screen size, voice quality, and of course data access…
A nice fix would be for the navigation to load in all the maps for the route, so I don’t need to sweat the connectivity. Every network has holes, I assume Verizon has far fewer, but it is still annoying.
pocketnow has an 8 minute video review:
gizmodo loves the voice search, and text-to-speech, but not that impressed with regular text search or the street view:
It’s an extremely powerful program, but the execution isn’t the best. Not by a stretch.
TomTom for iPhone review
Oct 19, 2009 gps navigation, reviews, tomtom
There’s a new review for TomTom’s GPS navigation app for the iPhone. It does not review the highly expected TomTom car kit though – only the software.
The review was mostly very positive. Here is the bottom line for you:
The TomTom iPhone App is a solid first step platform onto which TomTom can build a world-class navigation product. The application offers a lot of capabilities that are damn convenient to have right in your iPhone. The trusted TomTom performance and ease of use is in there, as is the familiar layout. It is a simple navigation product that is a great addition to anyone with an iPhone who wants navigation
NYTimes review for iPhone apps
Oct 18, 2009 gps navigation, phones, reviews
New York Times’ Eric Taub just recently reviewed four iPhone GPS apps.
TeleNav’s AT&T Navigator, Alk’s CoPilot Live, Navigon’s MobileNavigator, and TomTom’s iPhone app. I know we’ve talked about all these many times here on Navigadget before but maybe you just want to hear it all over again from NYTimes.
…According to a report from the iSuppli research firm, GPS applications for smartphones are about to explode, growing from 2.5 percent of users today to 10.5 percent in 2013. And half of those will be iPhone owners…
nuviphone G60 reviews
Oct 7, 2009 garmin, gps navigation, phones, reviews
A couple of reviews already came out about the nuviphone G60 we waited for years. One from pcmag, and the other one from Gizmodo. Neither of them look that good but if you have your heart set on this device you should really read the reviews and look for specifics that would actually change your mind.
pcmag: You can search for points of interests with your voice, great map detail, no DC power adapter for charging, voice directions not very loud, comes with document viewer, no MMS, bad camera, no video recording or playing, good battery life.
Still, the G60 is the best cell-phone-based GPS navigation device I’ve ever tested.
gizmodo: bad touchscreen, bad camera, bad accelerometer, $5 extra to check weather, traffic, etc, no car chager, good navigation.
I didn’t mean to be this harsh, but I also didn’t expect the G60 to be so bad.
Have you seen any other nuviphone G60 reviews? Please share URLs in the comments section.
UPDATE (Oct 14th 2009):
Engadget: Great for navigating but not as capable as a smartphone.
At $299 on contract, you’ve got a lot of smartphone options, and unless navigation is your number one priority, almost any of them are superior to this. This phone just isn’t a smartphone; it’s an amazing navigation machine that makes calls and attempts to browse the web / dabble in integrated apps.
David Pogue: A video review. He calls it “too expensive two trick pony”
Telenav on Motorola Cliq
Sep 30, 2009 gps navigation, phones, reviews, software
We just mentioned Telenav on Samsung Instinct HD. Now check out the same GPS navigation application work on Motorola Cliq. Motorola Cliq will be ready for order on October 19th. It comes with a two week trial, and after that it is $10/month. In case you haven’t heard of Motorola Cliq just yet.. it will be available on T-Mobile and is powered by Android OS.
TeleNav on Samsung Instinct HD
Sep 30, 2009 gps navigation, reviews, samsung, software
TeleNav on Samsung Instinct HD. In case you were curious…
waze demo video
Sep 30, 2009 gps navigation, phones, reviews, software
As you know we talked about Waze a while ago – and if you read that review you might know that our trial didn’t go that well. Well they now have a demo video up and of course it works flawlessly there. Waze provides crowd sourced maps, and traffic information. Of course it provides voice guided GPS navigation too.
Check out the video if you want to know more about Waze.
iPhone GPS apps comparison part II
Sep 29, 2009 gps navigation, phones, reviews, software
A couple of months ago Gizmodo did a comparison of different GPS navigation applications for the iPhone. They now have a part II for that. This time they’re covering more of the “second tier” applications – just because they’re a bit cheaper, and not as well advertised. Anyhow – we have all the iPhone GPS navigation apps listed here.
The GPS navigation apps reviewed are CoPilot Live from ALK, Gokivo GPS Navigator from NIM, and Sygic.
CoPilot Live for iPhone review
Aug 26, 2009 gps navigation, reviews, software
We have already announced the CoPilot Live for iPhone a while ago, and even recently here but never had a chance to talk about its performance.
There’s a review of it here which says it is really really worth the £25 in the UK. The app is just super easy to use, every thing works the way it is supposed to, and the maps and ETA estimates were dead on.
I’d heartily recommend this App based on basic usage, and I’d suspect the more advanced features will be good too…
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