iPhone Navigation App Comparison Chart

MaFt

When OS3.0 was released for the iPhone earlier in the year Turn by Turn Navigation apps were finally allowed by Apple's sometimes very restrictive rules. Since then, a steady stream of navigation apps have been appearing in the AppStore but with no demo's or 'lite' versions it is rather difficult for users to make decisions about which to buy. In an aid to help iPhone users in their quest PocketGPSWorld.com have put together this comparison chart highlighting the main features of each app that is currently available. As new apps are released we aim to keep this as up to date as possible.

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bedbug · Posted: Mon Aug 10, 2009 11:33 pm Post subject:

pgpsw rocks! Thanks MaFt - great work!
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iPhone 4/4S (iOS 5.1.1); TomTom Western Europe (1.10)/USA & Canada (1.10); CoPilot for iPhone (8), UK mapping, Mac OS 10.8/XP Pro/Win7; Tongue firmly in cheek!

bedbug · Posted: Mon Aug 10, 2009 11:49 pm Post subject:

How about a 'querks' category?

For Co-Pilot, I'd suggest:

• enable 'show more options' to access all preferences
• the need to create a custom routing profile, otherwise routing not reliable.
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iPhone 4/4S (iOS 5.1.1); TomTom Western Europe (1.10)/USA & Canada (1.10); CoPilot for iPhone (8), UK mapping, Mac OS 10.8/XP Pro/Win7; Tongue firmly in cheek!

mikealder · Posted: Tue Aug 11, 2009 6:20 am Post subject:

I like the idea of a "Querks" category,

For I-Go "Igo / settings / sounds and warnings / key presses" otherwise the software beeps everytime you touch the screen - drove me nuts for a few days last week - Mike

alan_dr · Posted: Tue Aug 11, 2009 6:32 am Post subject:

Great - thanks for that!
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Alan - iPhone 5 64GB, with CamerAlert, TomTom Europe & CoPilot

MaFt · Posted: Tue Aug 11, 2009 7:10 am Post subject:

"Quirks / Tips" section added - feel free to post your own!

i also just realised that of the 3 i own (sygic, igo, copilot) igo has, by far, the smoothest transition between landscape and portrait modes!

MaFt

SSR · Frequent Visitor Joined: May 26, 2005 Posts: 432

Very useful! Now hurry up TomTom...

sui · Posted: Tue Aug 11, 2009 10:59 am Post subject:

Woww... what a nice review! Some comments about iGO:

- Text-to-speech: coming soon
- Navigate to contacts: coming very soon (next update)
- Waypoints: 1 via point, coming very soon (next update)

Suggested new row:
- Traffic (TMC): coming soon

( Source: http://www.igomyway.com/en/features.html )

SSR · Frequent Visitor Joined: May 26, 2005 Posts: 432

An important thing with traffic is to cite the source, if known. There's good traffic and bad traffic info!

MaFt · Posted: Tue Aug 11, 2009 12:39 pm Post subject:

3 new fields added:

iPod control
traffic
QWERTY keyboard

updated the 'coming soon' bits for igo too. ta for link!

can someone tell me if navigon has a qwerty keyboard?

MaFt

MaFt · Posted: Tue Aug 11, 2009 12:53 pm Post subject:

mikealder · Posted: Tue Aug 11, 2009 2:29 pm Post subject:

vlak · Posted: Tue Aug 11, 2009 8:00 pm Post subject:

For Sygic's

MaFt · Posted: Tue Aug 11, 2009 8:11 pm Post subject:

cheers vlak - added this as one of the tips for sygic Very Happy

MaFt

phil_12345 · Occasional Visitor Joined: Aug 11, 2009 Posts: 1

There are a few errors in this, Google gets its map data from TeleAtlas - it says at the bottom right corner of google maps

You have also included a UK app but not UK versions of others. For example, Navigon (apart from in the US) has Text-to-Speech coming in the next update, along with live traffic updates.
It also states that Navigon has an update coming that has multi-point route planning and call POI, but that it currently lowers the iPod music volume when there is voice guidance, yet these features are not yet available in the US until the update is released. Both these features, are, however, available in all other localisation's.

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