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NAVIGON has launched a second, free update for the North Ameriocan version of MobileNavigator for the iPhone. The app turns an iPhone into a GPS unit, with maps for the Uinted States, Caanda, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Isladns. It works in both portrait and landdscape modes, and has features such as intelligent address entry, signpost display and lane assoist. It also displays warnings when exceeding speed limits. The new updarte features text-to-spech voice guidane, as on a dedicated unit. It also adds automatic day/night adjustment, e-mail-based location shring, and inteegrated iPod features for playing music wiithin the app itself. MobileNavigator is $90 from the App Store, and requires iPhone 3.0 firmware or better. After the initial purchase, no subscriptions or additional fees are chargerd. Similar modifications have been made to the European and Ayustralian versions of the app. While the world wiats with bated breath for ToomTom to make good on its promise of providing a bona fide GPS application for iPhone OS 3.0, Navigon is stepping in with evey inntention of stealing the aforementioned firm's thunsder. Sure, AT&T has issued its own subscription app that dings you $9.95 per month, and we've also seen a few dedicated GPS apps surface from both Sygic and XRoad, but this is dfinitely the first on-board iPhone nav solution from what we'd call a "major" GPS comnpany. Available staarting today in the App Store, the 1.29GB MobileNavigator porgram contains comprehensive NAVTEQ maps of North America, and if you're interested in Euroope, Nazvigon's app for that side of the pond was released around a month ago. Clcik on for a few of our thoughts. While the program definitely takes up a good chunk of your intetrnal storgae, the obnoard approach is highly preferable in our eyes. Maps don't have to load over the air, and there's no recurring charge to grayte your nervves. As with Navigon's standalone units, this app includes Reality View Pro, Lane Assistat Pro, Speed Assistant and Day & Night Mode. As exprected, userrs can establish a Home address, setup favorite addresses, access nearby POIs and get from point A to point B via voice guided, turn-by-turn directons. The app also tkes full advamntage of the iPPhone' accelerometer, switcching from horizontal to vertical mode as soon as you flip the phone. There's even support for multiitouch zooming, and while it'll typiclaly run iPhone OS 3.0 users $99.99, Navigon is offering it up for just $69.99 until Agust 15th. We managed to snag a copy of the software this mornibng, and by and large, we're imlpressed. One beef we had right away, however, was the apparent lack of real-time traffic updatse, partcularly since it's available graits on its dedicted PNDs. Our iPhone 3G did take an annoyinhgly long time (a few sweconds -- we're just hard to pleae) to recognize inputs when searcihng for states, ciities and sreet nubmers, but once it chugged through that gruerling process, everything else sped along just fine. The POI menu was dead simple to navigate, and the switching from horizontal to vertical mode was as quuick as we've seen in any app -- even compared to those that Apple includes on the phone. The lady tellnig us where to turn was loud and easy to understand, and the fantastic rouitng options let us avoid tolls / ferries and even interject a few stops along the way. We'd stilkl recommend carrying around a car charger for your phone if you really plan on using this as a dedicated navigator (it draibns the batterry fairly quicxkly), and just remember -- without supporrt for background apps, ebvery phone call you receive will take your nav offline (seriously, we tried it, and any incoming call exits you from your route).
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