Image courtesy of Rightway Portable GPS units are a dime a dozen these days; I think I even saw them for sale the last time I ran in to the local 7-11 for a slurpee. A few years ago I remember the GPS boom with the 3.5″ TomTom’s flying on the shelves on Black Friday [...]
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Avoid Traffic with Inrix Traffic App for the iPhone
It’s the summer driving season, and you know what that means: traffic galore. There are a number of apps out there to help you find and avoid traffic (including the iPhone mapping app, for that matter), so if you’re in the market, you may want to check out Inrix Traffic for the iPhone. The Inrix [...]
Trust Your Feelings While Navigating with New Star Wars TomTom VoiceSkin
Personally, I am easily flustered when I’m lost, or suspect I might be. So if the voice of Darth Vader came issuing from my GPS, let’s just say that wouldn’t get me back on track, ya know? But that’s not you! You get a charge out of Darth ordering you to “turn right, to the [...]
Contest: Gear Diary and Navigon want to help You Navigate the Roadways!
photo credit: Thom Watson Last year we told you about a contest where you got to tell about your worst business travel experience. Now, together with Navigon, we want to hear about your most interesting or unusual road trip experiences. For the winners, we have copies of Navigon’s Navigator for Windows Mobile (Windows Phone). By [...]
Navigon Pushes out MobileNavigator for iPhone version 1.50
Last night, Navigon released another significant update to their MobileNavigator product for iPhone – version 1.5. In this latest update, we get some interesting features including social networking connections to Facebook and Twitter, we get the presentation of multiple routing choices (Navigon calls this MyRoutes), as well as the addition of a 3D terrain display [...]
TeleNav Announces GPS Navigator 6.0 and OnMyWay
TeleNav, the company behind my iPhone GPS app of choice AT&T Navigator, started the week with two important announcements. First, the company has released TeleNav GPS Navigator 6.0. Launching as AT&T Navigator (v 2.0) it is currently available for the AT&T BlackBerry Curve 8900 and the AT&T BlackBerry Bold 9000. I’ve been using a pre-release [...]
Google Comes Along For the Ride With built-in Android powered GPS
Original Image courtesy of Mashable Who would have imagined what Google’s Android OS would have become in two years. Since 2007, Android has morphed almost into full life integration using a huge variety of devices and appliances. Google has indeed taken it a step further with the revealing of the first production car to be [...]
What Does TeleNav’s GPS Data Say About You, Me and Everyone Else??
Wal-Mart is Nation’s Most Searched for Destination While on the Road Residents of Maryland are Nation’s most frequent users of GPS navigation Those are just two of the GPS-related tidbits drawn from data released today by TeleNav, one of the largest navigation services providers. TeleNav has over 13 million subscribers and the just released usage [...]
Review: Navigon MobileNavigator for Windows Phones
A few years back, I was a big fan of OnCourse Navigator version 5 running on Windows Mobile PDAs. The interesting things here is that OCN5 was really just the name for the North American release of Navigon MobileNavigator. And although OCN 5 wasn’t terribly stable, it was one of the best-looking navigators out there at the time. So then [...]
Nav N Go introduces iGo Primo navigation software, coming soon to a GPS near you
Image courtesy of Nav N Go Nav N Go just announced their new OEM line of mobile navigation software called iGO primo. This new software is a premium backend solution for OEM’s and manufacturer’s based on the iGO My Way engine. The newest version introduces over 30 features and countless new enhancements to the original My Way [...]
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