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SPOT Connect review
May 17, 2011 By 47 Comments
Garmin StreetPilot app for iPhone announced
January 4, 2011 By 8 Comments
Garmin has announced their long awaited iPhone navigation application, dubbed the Garmin StreetPilot app (iTunes link), and it is available now! As you can see from the screenshots at left and farther down this post, the interface will be very familiar to any nuvi owner.
The app will retail for $39.99 and include free traffic alerts, lane assist, junction view, and speed limits. According to Garmin, the maps are off-board, delivered over the air, assuring you of the latest maps. They also say that the app will integrate well with iTunes and contacts, allowing you to control music and take a phone call while navigation continues in the background.
Hit the jump for more pics.
Navigon MobileNavigator for Android review
November 16, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Here’s a brief video review of Navigon’s MobileNavigator Android app:
Navigon MobileNavigator for Android comes to US
October 27, 2010 By 23 Comments
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 juggernaut last week, but (as suspected) it turns out that they are only providing maps for HTC, and not navigation. So Navigon becomes the first top-tier navigation app maker to go mano-a-mano with Google, to see if folks will pony up or settle for what the search giant gives us for free.
Peak.AR review
July 7, 2010 By 7 Comments
Augmented reality for the backcountry
Peak.AR is a free augmented reality app for the Android and iPhone platforms, that allows you to identify distant peaks by simply pointing your phone’s camera at them. Pretty cool huh?
My Tracks for Android
May 17, 2010 By 19 Comments
My Tracks is a free Android app that allows you to record and share GPS tracks. Incredibly easy to use, it layers your track onto Google Maps or satellite view (as shown above). Getting the track off your phone is as simple as saving the track, selecting the drop down More button and then Share with Friends, which gives you the options shown below at right. The GPX and KML options attach the file to an email; I love how easy it is to send a track to my computer this way. You can also create waypoints (“markers”) with the app. My Tracks is not a navigation app, but it is a great way to share locations and check the GPS accuracy of your Android phone. I’ve included the QR code below, so you can use a bar code scanner to download the app.
Google Maps Navigation review
January 19, 2010 By 22 Comments
Not the nav app you’re looking for
Google Maps Navigation (referred to hereafter as GMN) is a free navigation app for Android version 1.6+ phones in the U.S. I bought the Motorola Droid
One important thing to be aware of — this is a beta application. Google has been known to keep their products in beta for a long time, but this one is pretty new and the beta label definitely applies.
The first part of my review is basically a tutorial, walking you through the interface, and offering useful tips. For my overall take, head on down to the conclusion.
Two free apps help name that peak
January 14, 2010 By 3 Comments
Hey What’s That goes mobile
It’s been quite a while since I wrote about Hey What’s That?, a website that helps you identify mountains on the horizon. Well, today comes news that they have a mobile app for Android and iPhone (here is their mobile FAQ). So I tweeted about it and @CompeGPS turned me onto…
Peak.AR
Peak.AR (iTunes link) is a free augmented reality app that looks much better. There’s a screenshot at the top of this post (note that both English and German languages are supported). It’s limited to the iPhone now, but an Android app is expected by the end of February.
We have our winners!
November 17, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Our contest has now wrapped up and the three winners should be getting set up with their TeleNav GPS Navigator apps, even as I write this. Congratulations go out to @MyBellaMia, @mazzmn and @madamerkf. And a great big thank you to the folks at @TeleNav and to all of our new followers too.
Here are the gritty details on the selection process for anyone interested. Our 72 entrants were assigned a number in sequential order, starting with 1 for the first entrant and 72 for the last entry received before midnight last night. Winners were selected using a random number generator (results and screenshot below). The first three numbers (15, 31 and 9) were our winners, who were notified by DM earlier today that they had won and needed to respond with a valid email address, which all three did, wrapping up the selection process.
Win a copy of TeleNav GPS Navigator
November 10, 2009 By 1 Comment
UPDATE: Contest now closed. Thanks for your entries; we’ll be contacting and announcing the winners shortly.
Thanks to the folks at TeleNav, we’re giving away three one-year subscriptions to GPS Navigatorvia a Twitter contest. To win, simply do both of the following steps:
- Follow @gpstracklog on Twitter (if you’re already following me, proceed to step two!)
- Tweet “Just entered to win TeleNav GPS Navigator. Just follow @gpstracklog and retweet. http://bit.ly/2hy43n”
The fine print:
- Check to see if your carrier and device are supported
- Contest runs through 11:59 p.m.on November 16, 2009
- Entry is limited to residents of the U.S. and Canada
- Winners will be selected at random
- Only one entry is allowed per follower
- Winners will be notified by direct message and will have 24 hours to respond with an email address; if you don’t get back to us within a day, we’ll pick a new winner
