Posts Tagged ‘iPhone’
Magellan Makes it Official: iPhone App Available Now, Related GPS Car Kit on the Way
Here’s an interesting thing: while Garmin is pushing its Nuvifone, rival Magellan has just announced a navigation app for the iPhone, along with a forthcoming car kit. The RoadMate app with turn-by-turn navigation and spoken street names is available now for a cool $79.99; the vehicle mounting cradle — which includes its own GPS reciever — for the iPhone and iPod touch will be available in December for $129.99, Magellan says. The car kit cradle also features its own speaker and Bluetooth.
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TomTom Adds Text-to-Speech, iPod Controller and Other Goodies to Its iPhone App
TomTom has released a free upgrade to its iPhone app for North American and European users — as well as the Kiwis and their neighbors Down Under — apparently adding a bunch of things that users had expected from it in the first place, such as text-to-speech functionality with spoken street names and places. Other new features include lane guidance, TomTom’s Help Me, iPod player control, and updated maps – but notably no traffic data feature.
Apps Alert: Google Maps Navigation Hack for G1 … Waze Goes Worldwide … WinMo Sto’ Gets a Nav App … Navigon iPhone App Gets Traffic
Today seems to be a day for mobile navigation app news — WinMo, iPhone, and some Android related app-hacking news, even. Where to begin? Let’s talk about crowd-sourced traffic app Waze. The startup, which up until now was only available in Israel and the United States, has expanded to include the entire world. Now no matter if you live in North Piddle, United Kingdom or Timbuktu, Mali, you can report on and check out the local traffic conditions (although I’m guessing traffic in North Piddle may not be as problematic as it is in, say, London or Berlin).
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Google Announces Free Mobile Navigation App, Just in Time for Verizon’s Droid & Android 2.0
Your friendly neighborhood maniac has been preoccupied with a number of things of late, not the least of which is testing some gadgets — hence the lack of posts for a bit. Nevertheless this post and I are here to relieve the drought, and what a doozy to break the silence with. The Google announced today that it is getting into the mobile application software biz, announcing a beta Google Maps Navigation for Android 2.0 devices. TomTom’s, Garmin’s and everybody else’s stock immediately dropped (no really, I’m not joking for once). Google says it considers this part of its Google Maps offering, and as such, it is free, and will first appear on Verizon’s Droid handset, which will be the first phone to feature the 2.0 version of the mobile Android OS.
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