Garmin Fit Apps and ANT+ adapter announced
UPDATE: Looks like the ANT+ adapter for iPhone will be available later this week. Garmin has announced the Garmin Fit app for iPhone and Android this morning, and an ANT+ adapter for the iPhone (that link wasn’t live when I posted this, but it probably will be later this morning). This is Garmin’s first fitness [...]
Enter traffic circle and keep left?
Okay, maybe it’s unfair to call out Google Maps Navigation for this error. After all, every GPS can give you faulty directions, no matter what database they are using for road data. But I’ve never seen this type of error on a unit using NAVTEQ or TeleAtlas maps. Fail!
Google Maps Navigation to use onboard maps?
According to All About Phones, a Dutch website, Google Maps Navigation will soon have a full-blown offline mode. Late last year, with the introduction of Google Maps 5.0 for Android, GMN moved to vector graphics and improved route caching. But this new capability would allow you to plug in a destination while outside of cell [...]
Preserving cellphone battery life in the backcountry
I imagine that a lot of our readers are trying out their smartphones in the backcountry, using mapping applications for navigation. One of the problems with this (and there are several), is that few things will drain your battery faster than your phone searching for a signal where there is none, or where reception is [...]
SPOT Connect review
Hands on with the SPOT Connect The SPOT Connect allows you to communicate with loved ones and social media, or call out search and rescue, even from remote wilderness areas without a cell phone signal. Like the DeLorme PN-60w + SPOT Communicator, the Connect allows you to compose messages on the fly, but instead of [...]
SPOT Connect shipping (really, we mean it this time)
UPDATE: Read my hands on review of the SPOT Connect My bad, the SPOT Connect didn’t show up a month ago. But it’s finally here – both REI and GPS City have it in stock. And the SPOT Connect app (pictured above) is live in the Android Market and Apple’s App Store. So now you [...]
TeleNav comes to VZW Android phones (and its free!)
Good news for owners of Verizon Android phones today – Navigation by TeleNav is now available for download, with a free version that includes text-to-speech, traffic avoidance, multiple route choices (seen above at right) and 22 million POIs.
Navigon MobileNavigator for Android review
Here’s a brief video review of Navigon’s MobileNavigator Android app:
Garmin gives Asus exclusive on Android handsets
UPDATE: After noticing some very specific language from Garmin in news reports, I asked a contact there for more information on this subject. They said that ASUS will have preloaded Garmin navigation on their Android devices as an exclusive, and that Garmin isn’t working on a stand alone Android app at this time. Bad news [...]
Navigon MobileNavigator for Android comes to US
Wow, how much can the mobile navigation market change in just a couple of days? Following Garmin’s announcement yesterday that they will develop navigation apps for multiple platforms, Navigon reveals that they are bringing MobileNavigator to the US Android marketplace. I thought perhaps that TomTom had decided to take on the free Google Maps Navigation [...]
