European nav app first out of the gate for iPhone

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20 Jun 2009

This is a story about the European nav app first out of the gate for iPhone.

It looks like our European friends will get first crack at an advanced turn-by-turn navigation app for the iPhone/iPod touch. MobileNavigator Europe App Store requires the 3.0 software, and looks to be fully featured:

  • 2D and 3D map displays
  • Can be used in portrait and landscape format
  • Branded UI features such as Reality View Pro, Lane Assistant Pro & “real signpost display”
  • Speed Assistant with adjustable audio-visual warning
  • Direct access and navigation to contacts saved in the iPhone’s address book
  • The latest NAVTEQ maps, 2M+ European POIs (points of interest)
  • Navigation is automatically resumed after an incoming phone call
  • Quick access to user-defined POIs in the area and along the route
  • Take Me Home function with a single click

This software is the first of several apps coming for the iPhone. The TomTom app that will work in the U.S. has been demoed and coming soon. Garmin, one of the premier GPS manufacturers is going the other way, and will release their own phone with navigation built in, but the project has been troubled and much delayed. Telenav has pre-announced its iPhone offering and suggested that customers keep an eye on the company’s Twitter feed.

The Navigon app is US $94.99 (!) this month only, then the price goes up (!!!). The Navigon website doesn’t yet show a list of the supported countries, but it’s displayed in iTunes and is quite extensive (Albania to Vatican City with Estonia, Macedonia, San Marino & Slovenia + more in between). The app supports ten different languages and will automatically switch based on the selected language for the iPhone itself. The download weighs in at 1.65 GB.

This quick release of high quality navigation software should set mouths watering for a release over here, but I’m a bit troubled by the pricing, as you can buy a pretty fully featured low-end navigator for only a few more dollars.

Thanks to Gaspare for the tip!

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1 Response to European nav app first out of the gate for iPhone

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Northerner

July 2nd, 2009 at 9:05 pm

Avaod this liek the plague. This is a half-baked product which was rushed out purely to lock people out of the forthcoming TomTom.
Some nice features, but oh, some MAJOR shortcomings-

1. Audio is INAUDIBLE in a moving car even at low speed and radios off etc, with the iPhone at maximum volume,

2. No background running so program has to do a FULL restart after an incoming phone call

3. Single status display shows speed OR time to destination OR distance remaining – despite there being acres of space of the screen to show all 3.

4. Music played through iPhone isn’t faded during voice prompts resulting in an unintelligble distorted mess. Also means cannot be used as music source though car stereo or amp.

5. What SatNav program these days can’t navigate to post codes? Just this one!

6. No POI imports and provided POIs are minimal and well out of date.

7. No speedcam or traffic facilities

£40 or £60? This should have been a free beta, it is that unusable!

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