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By: Luba V. Babe

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By: Travis Ehrlich

Travis Ehrlich — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 17:12:15 +0000

I couldn’t see using this as my primary GPS solution. It is handy when I do not have anything else with me, but not an every day app. While I’m on a school bus and looking for directions it might prove to be handy. I plan on waiting to see what other options come available and at what price before I try another though.

By: Dan Cohen

Dan Cohen — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 15:54:51 +0000

Rod-
I’m with you. The convergence is key for me. I don’t mind if the app has to stop while I make call. I might find it to be problematic but I am willing to give it a shot in order to not need yet another device with me. At $69 the Navigon offering looks good… I just wish I knew when TomTom was releasing and what the price point is first…

By: pradley

pradley — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 15:28:50 +0000

The Navigon app is much better than G-Maps, and it mimics the Navigon receiver (which I own) well. The G-Maps gui is inferior and entry of addresses is, I found, simply awful. You must choose a state and city from a dropdown list and then enter a number, but this is explained nowhere since the online manual is for an earlier version of the app. The whole app smacks of too hurried development. Navigon, on the other hand, gives you the entire US (and Canada), links to the built-in Contacts, and allows you to play your ipod. The voice is also louder. I think G-Maps is a waste of money.

By: thehotrod

thehotrod — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 13:56:24 +0000

It may not be perfect, but it is the BEST Smartphone I’ve ever had. Windows Mobile doesn’t hold a candle to the iPhone. The Palm Pre may have more ability to run background apps, but it doesn’t have the PLETHORA of apps available to it that the iPhone has. Just because it can run multiple apps doesn’t win me over since there aren’t multiple apps to run. (yet)

But still it is about convergence. It is one less device I have to carry. I have a MP3 player, a Garmin, and a Treo700wx. And really I had to use my Laptop for any real internet browsing. (The internet experience on the iPhone is simply amazing. I use 20 times the data over 3G and Wifi that I ever used on my Treo700wx. Now I can just carry my iPhone. I don’t have to carry all that stuff. I just need my iPhone.

Thanks for the review. I’m really leaning to Navigon right now, but I’m digging through the couch to come up with $69.

By: mchinsky

mchinsky — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 12:19:07 +0000

I don’t get it. All of these are hobbled with the inability to have the whole country all at once. For what they charge, for a few bucks more you can get a dedicated GPS with a much louder speaker. The demographic of the average reader of geardiary can easily afford the dedicated unit or have one built in.

Unless you are walking the streets of a city, I don’t see the value on an iphone. Since the darn thing can’t do any background applications, what happens when you get a call or an email, you lost the ability to be routed and can miss your turn.

About the only device I see this viable in is a Pre and considering its meager 8gigs of RAM, unless it’s over the air (it might be, I don’t own one) you would tie up too much memory for just the maps.