TomTom’s Map Share update brings crowdsourced navigation to iPhone GPS app
Buckled early and sprung for TomTom's iPhone GPS app , did you? If so, that very app just got a lot better today, as version 1.6 has brought TomTom's Map Share -- a crowdsourcing aspect that'll keep your maps more up-to-date than you ever thought possible. Map Share enables iPhone users to make changes instantly to their own maps and to benefit from free map updates made by the TomTom community and verified by the company itself.
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: app, engadget, excuse, iphone, iphone gps, iphoneapp, map, mapping, maps, speed, tomtom
NavFree launches free US iPhone navigation app with offline map data
There's no shortage of iPhone navigation apps out there, but we can't say we've seen too many that come with 1.6GB of offline map data -- especially for free. That's the hook for NavFree USA, which just went live in the App Store -- sure, it also has some interesting social features like crowdsourced map updates and navigating to friends, and you can buy add-ons like traffic and speed camera info, but we think most people will use the free turn-by-turn and call it a day. That is, until Apple builds navigation directly into the OS .
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: app store, apple, camera, gps, gpsapp, hilariously, info, ios app, iosapp, map, navfree, navigation-app, navigation-apps
Navigon’s MobileNavigator 1.7 update adds universal iPad integration, Retina Display support, and more
We've maintained for quite some time that Navigon's MobileNavigator app was leaps and bounds better than most of the similarly priced alternatives, and if you just so happen to already own it, you can look forward to a rather sizable update this morning.
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: entry, map, north, north-america, Notifications, parking, retina, retina-display, traffic-live, tunnels, zagat
Google Latitude makes brief appearance in App Store, gets yanked post-haste
Ah, the games that grown-ups play. It's a situation that's beginning to feel an awful lot like the Google Voice fiasco that made the rounds in mid-2009, but if it ends in a similar fashion , you won't find us kvetching about the teases
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: googlelatitude, googlevoice, iphoneapp, map, mapping, mountain, publicly-reveal, the-description, the-screenshots
Apple’s Find My iPhone / iPad service now free, doesn’t require MobileMe
We'd been sort of hoping Apple would just make MobileMe a completely free service, but it looks like we're taking baby steps instead: Find My iPhone / iPad is now free for iPhone 4, the iPad, and the fourth-gen iPod touch running iOS 4.2.1 .
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: apple, find-my-iphone, findmyiphone, ios 4.2.1, map, mobile, remotely-wipe, steps-instead
Bell Mobility hawking HTC Desire Z for $130 on contract
With the G2 floating around, it's easy for Americans to forget that a North American flavor of the HTC Desire Z does, in fact, exist -- you just need to run north of the border to get it.
Categories: Android, htc, Mobile Phone Tags: bell, bell-mobility, desirez, engadget, htc, illogical-ones, map, phone, quickly-scaling, result, someone-please, sun
ComScore: European cell phone navigation on the rise
In Europe, it was a good year for cell phone GPS -- ComScore , an organization that tracks painful sounding concepts like penetration and market share, just reported that an estimated 21 million Europeans stopped to ask their phone for directions last year. That's up 68 percent from the 12.5 million who did so in 2008. With two-thirds of mobile map users saying they accessed their phone GPS in a moving vehicle, ComScore thinks the stats suggest phones might replace standard PNDs as well
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: europe, europeans, gps, map, mobile navigation, phone, pnds, result, study
Dual Electronics iPod touch GPS dock ships at long last
It took a little longer than expected, but the first major docking solution to transform ones iPod touch into a full fledged navigating machine is now shipping directly from Apple . Dual Electronics' XGPS300 was originally announced way back in November of last year, and after a minor hiccup in January, we're finally able to plop down $199.95 to snag a window-sucking cradle with an inbuilt GPS receiver, rechargeable battery, amplified speaker and NavAtlas US / Canada map app
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: apple, dual electronics xgps300, dualelectronics, instock, ipodtouch, map, now shipping, onsale, result, transform-ones, xgps300
Vodafone’s Wayfinder is first victim of free smartphone navigation services
Back in January 2009, as Vodafone was preparing to close a
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: free-smartphone, google-maps, introduction, location-based-services, map, sweden, swedish, the-unfortunate, vodafone
Lost my Master account
Can I ever get it back? I have games and now I can't play them and Map packs. It wont let me log in it says e-mail or pass wrong