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Navigon announces Traffic Live for MobileNavigator North America

by Jake Gaecke on Nov 9, 2009 at 11:01 PM

The best GPS app on iPhone just got a little bit better. Navigon’s MobileNavigator is already an amazing GPS routing app with its voice prompted directions, smoothly animated maps and excellent everything-I-can-think-of, but Today they’ve added Traffic Live for North America. Continue Reading »

Google Maps Navigation to make its way to the iPhone?

by Jake Gaecke on Oct 28, 2009 at 11:27 AM

Today, Google released their free GPS guidance app for Android 2.0, called Navigation. But rumor, or CNET, has it that the app will make its way to iPhone at some point in the future. Many first time users guess, erroneously, that the iPhone has a GPS navigation app built in.… Continue Reading »

TomTom cradle to enable GPS for iPod touch and other apps

by Jake Gaecke on Aug 17, 2009 at 12:58 PM

According to Yann Lafargue, PR for TomTom, the much anticipated TomTom iPhone cradle will do more than just keep your iPhone’s battery topped off. Its GPS enhancing abilities seem to take advantage of the dock connector on not just the iPhone, but also the iPod touch to enhance (or to… Continue Reading »

Appletell reviews G Maps GPS app for iPhone

by Jake Gaecke on Mar 7, 2009 at 07:06 PM

If you’re looking for turn by turn, voice prompted, GPS directions on your iPhone, you won’t find it here. You will find real time tracking, continuously updated directions, points of interest, route optimization, location based route recalculation, Navteq maps etc. Simply put, G Maps is as close as it’s going… Continue Reading »

TeleNav bringing GPS navigation to iPhone 3G

by Jake Gaecke on Sep 12, 2008 at 10:12 AM

Since the day I first got my iPhone, the maps feature has taunted me. It can find businesses, identify locations unknown to me, visualize traffic and give decent directions. More recently, even my original iPhone can figure out where I am within a reasonable distance without any GPS. But there’s… Continue Reading »

What Apple should allow with the SDK, but won’t

by Josh Holat on Jun 22, 2008 at 04:53 PM

Let’s face it, when it comes to the iPhone and its SDK, there are some types of applications Apple isn’t going to allow. Many of these will be expected, and I certainly don’t care if Apple blocks access to all the applications containing porn and other naughty things. However, some… Continue Reading »

Update: TomTom does have an iPhone navigation prototype

by Josh Holat on Jun 13, 2008 at 05:00 PM

Remember Thursday when sources close to the TomTom navigation company said they had no prototypes of an iPhone navigation application, nor did they even have plans to make one? Well, it seems as if TomTom has changed their mind. A French representative named Yann Lafargue has come forward and said… Continue Reading »

TomTom supposedly stops work on iPhone navigation software

by Josh Holat on Jun 12, 2008 at 12:40 PM

TomTom, a popular GPS navigation company for cars, is reportedly not making any navigation applications for the upcoming iPhone 3G. If you’ll remember, there were rumors floating around a while back that TomTom was, in fact, going to develop for the iPhone, but the company says these are all false.… Continue Reading »

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