Navigon’s Mobile Navigator is the GPS application for the iPhone, which might be as good as and even to replace the GPS device you have. The application costs $70, double the price of the Co-Pilot 8 GPS iPhone app that we’ve seen before.
The reviewer at MobileCrunch deems Navigon app on iPhone is as good as any hardware GPS device. The app presents a fully-featured North American GPS system with an intuitive interface and NAVTEQ maps. It has a fun UI which shows large, bold directions, upcoming street signs, and a little horizontal line as the representation of the direction you’re headed to. It’s also got a voice prompt to tell you how far you’re from your destination.
The application uses iPhone UI to select addresses but falls into Navigon UI to show the directions. The app has all the maps, which is great if you’re driving through a dead zone. This app works with the GPS chip of the iPhone 3G or iPhone 3GS. It also allows you to grab addresses from your contact list. In short, Navigon Mobile Navigator app makes your iPhone a GPS device. It’s also a hint that smartphones one day will take over every small device with dedicated function.
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August 24th, 2009 at 12:52 pm
Seventy bucks is rather expensive for a GPS app. I have CoPilot on my G1 and, like the iPhone version, it only cost $35. I can barely see much point in a dedicated GPS even now, the phones have caught up so much in the last 2-3 years.
September 23rd, 2009 at 7:05 am
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