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Best Navigation app for iPhone 4s ?
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Standalone (priciest): Navigon gets my recommendation.
Connection required (very inexpensive): MotionX
Fun, connection required (free!!): Waze
Waze is awesome, by the way. It uses crowd-sourcing, has free turn-by-turn voice guidance, and just received a complete rewrite with iOS 5 (it's very nice in my opinion). There's also a gaming component to it where you receive points. It is worth checking out at least, because it's FREE. However, it is not the most accurate always, it has to learn. The other two apps up there will get you where you need to go.
Connection required (very inexpensive): MotionX
Fun, connection required (free!!): Waze
Waze is awesome, by the way. It uses crowd-sourcing, has free turn-by-turn voice guidance, and just received a complete rewrite with iOS 5 (it's very nice in my opinion). There's also a gaming component to it where you receive points. It is worth checking out at least, because it's FREE. However, it is not the most accurate always, it has to learn. The other two apps up there will get you where you need to go.
Navigon. Did this last night, music + navi. Navigon lets you adjust volume of guidance so you can get it to be right when listening to music at the same time (it softens the music and does the announcement)
I'm sure others work fine but I use Navigon all the time and have never had issues with it. Yes, it does have a few quirks but overall it's fine.
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I've tried them all. MotionX GPS Drive is by far the best.
I've tried them all. MotionX GPS Drive is by far the best.
I find TomTom to have the best routing, incredibly accurate traffic and the most up to date maps (UK version).
okay I forgot to mention that I'm looking for app that will work with least amount of data connection and reason behind it is (if I'm understanding correctly) without data connections this connected apps wont know where you are as they do live data connection to update location. If there is data connection app that basically brings down whole route before you start trip so that way it is not constantly consuming data and you wont be out of luck if data connection is lost while you are routing.
I'm going to assume since it costs $60.00 that you haven't tried Navigon. It's by far the most complete GPS app and doesn't rely on a constant data connection.
Navigon stores maps locally on your phone. No data connection is required (unless you're going a Google search or something similar within the app). You can get wherever you need without having service with Navigon. I recommend it if that is a requirement.
