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Navigon Offers Full-Featured iPhone GPS Navigation for a Single Upfront Fee
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Update is always free with Navigon. That is why I have bought one of their device in the past, which I still used and updated lately
No realtime traffic, gas prices, POI, or weather updates? All this 3G data service, and nothing to grab from the cloud when you're navigating?
Hmm...
I'll pull the trigger no earlier than August 12th, right before the price goes up.
Hmm...
I'll pull the trigger no earlier than August 12th, right before the price goes up.
True. I bought a Navigon 2100 Max [i think], off of ebay for $89. I really like Navigon's UI, and some of their features, but its to bad they closed shop in the US and aren't selling any more GPS's here. However, they have told me that they are going to continue to provide map updates, and support.
I just wish i would of knew about this or else that would of made me run out and switch carriers. but, oh well.
Go BG Falcons! [my Alum]
Is there currently any Turn-by-turn Text-to-speech navigation app for the US right now? I would love to get it if there is.
The Navigon app looks really awesome by I was really hoping to get one with text-to-speech.
The Navigon app looks really awesome by I was really hoping to get one with text-to-speech.
"MobileNavigator represents the first full-featured GPS application bearing a single upfront cost to reach North America, beating out the much-anticipated hardware/software combination coming from TomTom."
This is not true. I believe that Sygic was the first to market with full-featured Turn-By-Turn directions. That's not to say that Navigon's and Tom Tom's solutions wont be better. I'm waiting to see which one is the best and then I'll make my move.
~mullet
This is not true. I believe that Sygic was the first to market with full-featured Turn-By-Turn directions. That's not to say that Navigon's and Tom Tom's solutions wont be better. I'm waiting to see which one is the best and then I'll make my move.
~mullet
Very coolio and it's a good start, but the download is hefty at 1.3GB and doesn't include Text-to-Speech?
I watched the Video on YouTube from them. It had Text To Speech towards the latter part of the video.
what about G-Map?? they were the first full featured GPS app when they upgraded to voice turn by turn shortly after the release of the 3.0 firmware. FWIW... G-Map works really well and is cheaper than Navigon (well, same price at Navigon's introductory offer)
Garmin has a lifetime map update option now:
http://www.garmin.com/garmin/cms/us/maps/numaps-lifetime
G-Map has it and is priced at 1/2 this.... even lower for the specific states version.
gmaps works great. The article is wrong in saying it is the first full featured gps for north americal. Gmaps has been out for a while.
Ok, that article does mention traffic in a possible future update, as well as realtime gas prices available now.
Thanks for the info and yes, go Falcons! ('06 & '08 alum here)
I find it interesting that they include all maps in the download. 1.3GB is pretty hefty. Why not include zero maps and then just choose which states you want to download from within the app? I would typically only need 3 states so it just seems like a waste of space. A map manager would be perfect...
Depending on where you live, or park, some people have to remove or hide their GPS units every time they leave their car. Having it on your iphone saves this problem. Some people, like myself, like the fact that you have everything in one unit, rather than multiple units - cell phone, ipod, pda, and gps unit. Also it is easier to take with you if you are going to use it in friends car or something.
Personally I think the sale price is good value, but I am torn between this and TomTom.
just to clarify: the european version is already out and works very well! (at least for me)
It doesn't say this anywhere, but I'm curious does this integrate with music playing from the phone. The TomTom demo at WWCD said that if you were playing music it would fade out momentarily when there were directions to give. Will this one do the same?
I doubt that's it - TomTom has been selling their Navigator software for Windows Mobile and Palm OS for a while now, so I suspect they already have a good sense of basic pricing (when I bought TomTom for my Treo, I believe it was also around the $70 range).
As others have noted, the big question will be how they handle map updates - Navigon in particular should be disclosing that up front, rather than giving people the impression that they will get map updates for free for life (given that map updates are part of the lifeblood of these kinds of companies) - unelss they actually won't be charging for map updates, which would be remarkable.
-Zadillo
They wouldn't just say this to make you buy one of their cradles would they...
Do the cradles / hardware TomTom proposes to sell in addition to their software for the iPhone add any functionality aside from external speakers, I wonder?
I am tempted to buy the Navigon software ... but probably will wait til a few reviews trickle in. Best to wait and see really - as TomTom's own release is pending and consumers can make informed choices based on differences between the two packages.