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.
google navigation
Oct 29, 2009 gps navigation, phones, software
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:
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more TeleNav giveaway
Oct 22, 2009 GPS giveaways, gps navigation, phones, software
As you know a few months ago we gave away free subscription to TeleNav’s GPS navigation software. Now we’re doing it again. The only difference is that we’ve upped the prize. Instead of three 6 months of service, now we’re giving away three 1 year subscriptions.
What’s the occasion you may ask? Well, just recently there was an update for AT&T Navigator, and now the GPS navigation software from TeleNav has a new look and some new features.
Check out the video here which demonstrates support for landscape view while navigating, integrated iPod controls and improved audio. The video is for iPhone but you can still win if you’re using another device.
Here is how you can get your hands on one of these free 1 year subscriptions.
First make sure you have a compatible phone here. And then subscribe to our feed and leave a comment below with an email address we can reach you at.
The giveaway is open to U.S. residents only. Sorry rest of the world. Also 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.
Good luck.
Zenrin GPS navigation on Sony PSP
Oct 8, 2009 gps navigation, software, sony
Remember that Zenrin GPS navigation for PSP?
It looks like they were demonstrating their late comer GPS navigation software program Sony PSP. It does 2D maps most of the time, but at complex highway intersections it switches to 3D mode even showing the surroundings…
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Sony Ericsson K850 + HGE-100 GPS accessory
Oct 4, 2009 fitness, gps navigation, software, sony, tracking
Remember that Sony Ericsson HGE-100 we talked about long time ago? Well we just came across a video of HGE-100 being used with Sony Ericsson K850. There’s an application called tracker that can show your route’s overview, replay your progress, calculate calories consumed depending on your weight, and a lot more.
It’s not the latest news.. since now most higher end Sony Ericsson’s come with an embedded GPS receiver making the HGE-100 obsolete.
MotionX-GPS Drive
Oct 1, 2009 gps navigation, phones, software
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:
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.
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