iGo My Way 2009 NA and WESTERN EUROPE Released!,

[Ron21]

NA - http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=321933312&mt=8

W-Europe - http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=321933644&mt=8

Europe - http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=321933838&mt=8

Really excited about this one since they are including maps updates until Dec. 2010.

Video:

YouTube - iGO My way for iPhone (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymdZGw74V_I)

YouTube - iGO My way for iPhone (In the car) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1y-VxzI40F0&feature=PlayList&p=DEBCE06649A05072&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=1)

[lamadude]

In the description on iTunes it says that they will provide free updates untill December 2010, not eternally. (at least it does in my description, which is in dutch)

[Ron21]

In the description on iTunes it says that they will provide free updates untill December 2010, not eternally

Corrected, Thanks.

I misread what they said.

"This product contains a lifetime license and a FREE subscription to quarterly map updates until December 2010"

[lamadude]

Still, looks interesting, and cheaper than the other navigation app that was out there I think.

[avaloncourt]

Thanks for posting this. This has some pretty interesting features. $79.99 seems fairly expected as a price for the GPS apps these days.

[Rayfire]

Ah interesting, thanks for the heads up OP.

Now who's gonna take the first bite for the North America version? ;)

[Tunnelrunner]

Ah interesting, thanks for the heads up OP.

Now who's gonna take the first bite for the North America version? ;)

I'm very tempted...but I'm running out of space on my iPhone. I was hoping to save whatever I have left for TomTom! :D

I'm also not a big fan of the 3-D structures, but YMMV.

[avaloncourt]

I'm also not a big fan of the 3-D structures, but YMMV.

That seems to be the "next big thing" now. The newest hardware model from Navigon that was announced just before they decided to pull out of the US has the 3D structures and also 3D terrain on the display. I don't find that particularly interesting but someone must be interested in it or they wouldn't have gone to all that effort.

[m3coolpix]

I'm also not a big fan of the 3-D structures, but YMMV.

You can turn the 3D nav view off in Navigon, it's one of the options.

From just the description & screenshots of iGo My Way on iTunes, it does look to be interesting (not enough for me to buy another TBT app though). I like the look of their 3D interface.

One thing is that is encouraging though, is that the text on their street names is much easier to read with their use arrowed text boxes (vs. Navigon's white outlined overlayed text). Hopefully Navigon is taking notes!

It can only get better for all the TBT apps as they start seeing each other's implementation and features.

What will be also interesting is iGo's reviews about initial GPS signal lock (or loss while using).

[Novidia]

Ah interesting, thanks for the heads up OP.

Now who's gonna take the first bite for the North America version? ;)

Downloading Now i'll let you know...:eek:

[Novidia]

:apple:Downloading Now i'll let you know...:eek:

works very well except.... no sounds or talking... i will reinstall and we will see..


Reinstalled and it works very well.... app has no text to voice...

[Tiffy]

:apple:

works very well except.... no sounds or talking... i will reinstall and we will see..


Reinstalled and it works very well.... app has no text to voice...

Could you please give us some details ?
- Does it give the road numbers by voice ?
- Does it have radar info ?
- Does it have traffic info ?

If you have another GPS App (G-Map or Navigon), would you say that Igo is better ?

Thanks for your first feedback !

[fredf]

:apple:

works very well except.... no sounds or talking... i will reinstall and we will see..


Reinstalled and it works very well.... app has no text to voice...

The Hungarian video of the software demonstrated text to voice. Are you
saying that it is NOT in the North American package?

I was about to pull the trigger on Navigon but reading about the company's software (Amigo) makes me think that this could be the best package currently available.

I really look forward to others' comments.

[NotOwning]

If you could also let us know how it works with music, like when it gives a direction while music is playing does the music fade out to make the directions more clear, and can you change the song inside the app?

Are there multiple voices to choose from?

[Novidia]

Downloading Now I'll let you know...:eek:

iGO NA is very fast on my 3gs and i must say that it appears to be very accurate here in northern IL. I like it much more than G-map east... The 3D maps are better than my BMW in car system and the software is much easer and faster to use. If their is text to voice i sure can't find it .. it just says turn left in 25 ft. with a tone. There is no real time traffic and you will need a car charger if you go on a trip .. battery goes fast.. All in all I like the app i just wish it had text to voice included.. otherwise it's the real deal. i will play around some more and give some updates later.

[fredf]

From their website:

"GO My way™ 2009 North America edition guides you to your destination in the following languages: English, Canadian French, US and Mexican Spanish. "

They are clearly saying that there is text to voice in several languages, so hopefully you will find out how to get it going and let us know.

By the way, how is the GPS signal. Are you having any of the problems that were noted by others with Navigon?

[FearlessFreep]

Text-to-speech and voice instructions are two separate things.

Voice instructions tell you what to do in a generic sense - "turn left in 400 feet" and so on.
Text-to-speech takes road and place names and reads them - "turn left on King Street in 400 feet"

I would be surprised if this has text-to-speech.

EDIT: The screenshot clearly says "Street names are not announced"
http://www.igomyway.com/templates/images/desktop_feature_P4.png

[FearlessFreep]

Lots of information on their website: http://www.igomyway.com

Complete user manual available here (http://www.igomyway.com/downloads/user_manuals/iGO_My_way_2009_UserManual_NA_US.pdf)

I've got to say, it looks intriguing. Like the features such as automatic night mode, 3D elevation and landmarks, favorites and others..

Man, Tom Tom is losing a lot of potential sales.

(BTW I have no connection with these guys whatsoever).

[Rayfire]

So by the end of 2010 we have to pay for map updates for this app.. hmm

[BryanLyle]

Lots of information on their website: http://www.igomyway.com

Complete user manual available here (http://www.igomyway.com/downloads/user_manuals/iGO_My_way_2009_UserManual_NA_US.pdf)

I've got to say, it looks intriguing. Like the features such as automatic night mode, 3D elevation and landmarks, favorites and others..

Man, Tom Tom is losing a lot of potential sales.

(BTW I have no connection with these guys whatsoever).

I'd never even heard of this company until this AM and they have already exceeded what TomTom has on the iPhone.

[BryanLyle]

So by the end of 2010 we have to pay for map updates for this app.. hmm

I don't know of any GPS system where the map updates are free. Of course, I have only looked at TomTom and Garmin.

[fredf]

I had a skim of the manual and I like how it is written. Clear and to the point with excellent screen shots.

I haven't used either G-maps or Navigon (or this for that matter) but I certainly like the looks of iGo so far.

[Beefburga]

Really tempted to purchase this.

I've noticed with other turn by turn navigation programs a delay in your position on the road to your location on the map.

With this being new I think I'll hang fire and read some reviews of people who have purchased it.

What the hell, I'll get it anyway (i'm so weak ;) )

All the very best people

Beef

[NotOwning]

Really tempted to purchase this.

I've noticed with other turn by turn navigation programs a delay in your position on the road to your location on the map.

With this being new I think I'll hang fire and read some reviews of people who have purchased it.

What the hell, I'll get it anyway (i'm so weak ;) )

All the very best people

Beef

If you are seriously getting it, please post a review

I really want to know 2 things:

1. Obviously how well it works GPS wise

2. When giving directions and listening to music, does the music fade out?

[m3coolpix]

I'd never even heard of this company until this AM and they have already exceeded what TomTom has on the iPhone.

In case you aren't following the iGO thread in the iPhone News Discussion.

iGO My Way 2009 - iGO amigo Company details (http://forums.macrumors.com/showpost.php?p=8221701&postcount=31)

[lampcov]

iGO NA is very fast on my 3gs and i must say that it appears to be very accurate here in northern IL. I like it much more than G-map east... The 3D maps are better than my BMW in car system and the software is much easer and faster to use. If their is text to voice i sure can't find it .. it just says turn left in 25 ft. with a tone. There is no real time traffic and you will need a car charger if you go on a trip .. battery goes fast.. All in all I like the app i just wish it had text to voice included.. otherwise it's the real deal. i will play around some more and give some updates later.

Novidia,
How extensive is the POI database? There's not much mention of "how many" there are. For me, not a big deal, for my wife it'd be nice to know if she can find the more common things...Costco, Lowes, Home Depot, Macys, grocery stores, etc.

Could you run a couple searches and let us know your opinion?

Thanks!
Marc

[m3coolpix]

Is there a way to choose an address that already exists in your iPhone contact database as a destination? I don't see it in the PDF manual.

About the only features I see that would be nice in Navigon is the text box or GPS signal indicator. The other features look pretty on par.

[benfica88]

Text-to-speech and voice instructions are two separate things.

Voice instructions tell you what to do in a generic sense - "turn left in 400 feet" and so on.
Text-to-speech takes road and place names and reads them - "turn left on King Street in 400 feet"

I would be surprised if this has text-to-speech.

EDIT: The screenshot clearly says "Street names are not announced"
http://www.igomyway.com/templates/images/desktop_feature_P4.png

I see it in the PDf

http://img27.imageshack.us/img27/6845/testslr.th.png (http://img27.imageshack.us/i/testslr.png/)

[FearlessFreep]

I see it in the PDf

http://img27.imageshack.us/img27/6845/testslr.png

After looking at it more, yes, that appears to be the synthesized voice. If you select that voice in the voice selections settings, then it appears to indicate that you'll get TTS. The 'Natural' voice does not do TTS.

I'm up in the air about this - I wish there was some more info on POI depth, etc. The features listed are very attractive and there does appear to be a decent amount of attention to detail - usually important in these apps.

Frankly it's either this or Navigon for me. Both use Navteq for their maps. Both have "lane assist" and "reality view" features. The 3D mode for terrain is nice in IGo, as is the automatic day/night screen. And I do like the layout and use of buttons better. IGo says the following are coming in an update:
-Navigating to Contacts
-Controlling Music Playback from within IGo
-Waypoint or stopover support

Guess I need to make a decision prior to the 14th.

(And screw TomTom with their $150+ price tag)

[Rayfire]

A reviewer at the US App store says there is no TTS yet.

[Macintosh Sauce]

I purchased the program for my iPhone last night and I am just learning how to use the program right now. One thing that made me laugh is that you can actually choose what kind of 3D vehicle you want to represent yourself on the GPS map instead of the default blue arrow. Tank. hahaha

The GPS is really accurate because there is a street in front of my home (obviously) but there is also a street behind our home. It shows me as being closer to the street at the back - makes sense because my computer/study room faces the back street.

[Rayfire]

I purchased the program for my iPhone last night and I am just learning how to use the program right now. One thing that made me laugh is that you can actually choose what kind of 3D vehicle you want to represent yourself on the GPS map instead of the default blue arrow. Tank. hahaha

Bwahahahaha really?! :D FTW! That's a pretty neat idea :p

[Macintosh Sauce]

Bwahahahaha really?! :D FTW! That's a pretty neat idea :p

In the Settings go to 3D Vehicle Gallery to replace the current Vehimarker (position arrow) with a vehicle or pedestrian image (from PDF manual).

[danterner]

I originally posted this mini-review on another forum I frequent. Thought I'd share my initial impressions here, too:

Yesterday I bought the new "iGo My Way" GPS app for my (jailbroken) 3G. It's currently selling for $79 on the app store. I had been using the AT&T Navigator app, and I like it pretty well, but $10 a month adds up. Since my wife has an iPhone, too, and mentioned that she would like a GPS nav app on her phone, that would mean $20 a month. I figured a $79 flat fee (including free quarterly map updates until the end of 2010) was worth it since we can have the app on both of our phones. I had tried the Navigon Lite demo, but didn't really care for it. I had also used XGPS (the free jailbroken GPS nav app) for a while. I'm tired of waiting for TomTom, especially with the recent circulating price rumors.

So far, my feelings about iGo are mixed. It has an impressive feature-set. I very much like its "learning" system (it will rank your prior destinations by your current location, the time of day, and other factors - it basically tries to guess where you are likely to tell it you want to go, based upon what you have told it in the past, in an effort to help you do things in as few clicks as possible). Data entry is accomplished using a big-key keyboard, not the standard iphone keyboard, and impossible letters are eliminated from the keyboard as you type to help minimize typos. Everything is laid out intelligently and it is easy to use. It has automatic day/night settings. It calculates different routes for you (fast, economical, short, etc) and shows you each choice on a map, telling you how far, how long, etc, each one is. It has a lot of nice little bells and whistles. (And yes - you really can change your icon to a tank. Or any one of about 20 other different things - taxi, motorcycle, sports car, man, woman, ambulance, etc).

Yet I'm having problems. Most of the problems, I blame on the phone itself - the iPhone's GPS just isn't that great. Even when the app is showing full signal strength, the position marker lags behind current location. This is not bad enough to be a showstopper, but it does get annoying especially when making turns from a stopped position. It can take a while for the screen to jump ahead and show you your present location. This is something that happens for me with AT&T Navigator, too, but is something that I didn't see happen so much with Navigon - Navigon seemed smoother in that regard. However, more than just the GPS positioning seems laggy and slow to me. Press a button, and it can take a moment for the press to register. It just doesn't feel as 'snappy' as I'm sure it would on a 3GS.

There are currently three US voices to choose between (one female and two male), and they are serviceable but not fantastic. They are called "natural voices" but still sound digitized. The female one sounds the best. When driving to work this morning, the spoken directions were very laggy ("Turn...... left............ in100......feet.") The cadence was just off. It was like getting driving directions from the lovechild of William Shatner and Kirk Douglas. My 9 year old daughter said "It's a good thing we're not relying on this for our directions." At one point we deviated from our path and the app immediately tried to get us back on course. However, (and the timing of this may just be coincidental) from that point onward I got no further spoken directions - even after being back on course. I tried quitting out of the app and restarting it, but by the time it restarted and was up and running again (my course had been saved and it brought me back to it), I was already at my destination. Right now, there is no text-to-speech, which means that you don't get to hear "Turn left on Main Street," just "Turn left now" That's coming in an update. The audio guidance screencap posted above, that shows TTS choices, is not anywhere in the app I can see. TTS is not yet an option. The screenshot that they used for the PDF manual must have been taken from the update they are working on.

This app features two different 3D modes - one is the typical tilted perspective 3D mode, and the second is that plus 3D buildings that look like SimCity structures. Or at least that's how they look in screenshots and demos of the app. I didn't see a single 3D building during my 30 minute drive to work. Granted, I didn't drive past any famous structures.

The app took a LONG time to start up on my phone. And that's when it started - sometimes the app quits back to the springboard when trying to start. (And, yes, I did a full reboot of the phone after installing it). It doesn't label all streets (like Navigon), but rather attaches little tags to certain random streets (like AT&T Navigator). It doesn't provide traffic updates or give any information about gas prices or anything like that (Navigator does). It doesn't have a way to pre-enter trip information from your PC (Navigator does).

It's possible that some of my difficulty with the app may be related to my being jailbroken. Maybe background processes/things like SBSettings are interfering. I'll be able to test that out by using the app on my wife's stock 3G. But my phone isn't generally crashy or slow. It's jailbroken but other apps run stably and well.

I didn't have a chance to test playing background music yet. I'd kind of like to get things running well first.

I think that if the iPhone had just a bit more processing power, RAM, and a better GPS, this would be the GPS app to get. As things stand, I feel a bit like I'm trying to play Crysis on an old PC. Who's to blame - the game designer, for making a game that pushes the system to (or beyond) its limits? The PC, for having limits? Or the user, for not yet upgrading his PC? I suspect that when I get a 3GS, I'll be liking iGo much more than I do. At least for the moment, I have a bit of buyer remorse. But I'm not giving up on it yet - I'm going to keep trying it and maybe some of the initial quirkiness will work its way out.

[ksmith80209]

Great review. I'm glad I picked up Navigon.

[jimplay]

NA - http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=321933312&mt=8

W-Europe - http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=321933644&mt=8

Europe - http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=321933838&mt=8

Really excited about this one since they are including maps updates until Dec. 2010.

Video:

YouTube - iGO My way for iPhone (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymdZGw74V_I)

YouTube - iGO My way for iPhone (In the car) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1y-VxzI40F0&feature=PlayList&p=DEBCE06649A05072&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=1)

looks cool;) but is quite expensive