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★★★★★ "hands-down my favorite navigator for the iPhone" -Andy Ihnatko, Chicago Sun-Times
★★★★★ "packed with features..." -Walt Mossberg, The Wall Street Journal
★★★★★ "MotionX-GPS Drive: Hands-Down the Best Value in GPS Apps" -Gizmodo.com
Always Live, Always Up-to-Date, a Fraction of the Cost
MotionX: Next-Generation Driving and Pedestrian Navigation
Included in MotionX-GPS Drive is 30 days of real-time routing with Live Voice Guidance.
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MotionX-GPS Drive turns any iPhone 3G or 3GS into the next-generation car and pedestrian navigation solution. MotionX introduces new features not yet seen on mobile devices, including “door-to-door” personal navigation tools, user interface innovations that greatly simplify the navigation experience, and integration of live search capabilities.
MotionX is committed to constant improvement. We listen to our millions of users and continuously add the most requested features. Of course all of our updates are free! Thanks for helping us constantly improve MotionX-GPS Drive.
Covers the U.S. and Canada. We are working on supporting Puerto Rico; we will have a solution soon. Thank you for your patience.
Exclusively designed for your iPhone 3GS and 3G. The 1st generation iPhone and the iPod touch do not have the necessary GPS chipset.
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MotionX: Live and Dynamic
Everything about MotionX-GPS Drive is dynamic including search, maps and routing. This fully-live, always up-to-date, connected experience leverages the full power of the Internet and the iPhone.
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MotionX: The Best at a Fraction of the Cost
With MotionX-GPS Drive you benefit from a fully-live, always up-to-date experience for navigation. Search, maps, routing, points of interest, and relevant destination information, such as phone numbers and addresses, are all up-to-date. This is a significant advantage over on-board solutions which are huge downloads (over a Gigabyte) and have static data which is outdated the moment it is loaded.
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MotionX: Designed and Optimized for the iPhone
✔ Full support for landscape mode.
✔ iPod integration: Listen to your music, playlists, audiobooks, and podcasts while using MotionX.
✔ iPhone 3GS compass: Know where your destination is. Even if you parked your car a few blocks away, MotionX will take you there. For the iPhone 3G, the compass uses GPS motion sensing.
✔ Address book integration: Find an entry in your iPhone contacts and MotionX will get you there.
✔ Phone integration: Place a phone call directly from search results.
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MotionX: Includes 30 Days of Live Voice Guidance
MotionX comes with 30 days of real-time routing with Live Voice Guidance. Afterwards, optional Live Voice Guidance Packages may be purchased anytime through in-app purchase. No subscriptions, no recurring fees.
Live Voice Guidance gives you:
✔ Voice guidance, fully integrated with the iPod.
✔ Live over-the-air maps and real-time routing.
✔ Cached routes and maps for optimal performance.
✔ Predictive live traffic data for optimal routing.
MotionX is committed to passing on to our customers the best possible pricing for guidance services and turn-by-turn routing. We ourselves must pay the data suppliers and therefore must charge a minimum fee for this service. We focus on providing the best value for quality information. Please note that MotionX-GPS Drive is fully functional as a standalone core solution.
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Drawing upon feedback from over 3 million iPhone users, MotionX has built a complete navigation solution specifically for the iPhone. MotionX-GPS Drive is state-of-the-art with a state-of-the-art business model. What this means to you is a better solution at a fraction of the cost.
What's New in Version 3.2
● Touch the street name in the navigation bar to make the name scroll.
● User interface improvements.
● Bug fixes and optimizations.
Customer Reviews
Outstanding at a reasonable price
This is an outstanding start and if my experience with Fullpower's other MotionX app is any indication, it will only get better.
That said, it's important you understand how a program that costs $2.99 can compete with the other GPS navigation programs that cost $90 or $100. The short answer is: It can't. Yes it's only $2.99 to get the program but that doesn't give you most of the "advanced" GPS Navigation features you might be expecting. For that you'll need to pay a little more.
For $2.99 you get what I would describe as an improved version of the directions provided by the Goggle Maps app that comes standard with the iPhone. It provides turn-by-turn directions similar to the way the Google Maps app does (i.e., you can advance from one turn to the next by manually by pressing a "next turn" button or follow the route by having it keep your current location centered on the map). GPS Drive gives you more information than Google Maps, like current heading, ETA, distance & time remaining. It also has other enhancements over Google Maps like the option to display a "course up" map which always orients the map in the direction you're going - something I always wished Google Maps had - and iPod integration. And the search feature is terrific.
So what about the advanced GPS features? They're there, but you don't get them for free. Well, you do for the first 30 days, but after that it will cost you (currently $3/month or $25/year). When you pay the additional fee, then GPS Drive becomes more of a full-featured GPS, complete with features like audio prompts, 3D maps, auto re-routing if you miss a turn, and the ability to take traffic conditions into account when calculating a route (something I haven't tested yet).
Basically Fullpower seems to have chosen a different model: Instead of making you pay up-front for the advanced features by charging $100 for the app, they simply charge you incrementally. From what I gather from their FAQ, they pay for the advanced navigation technology and must (naturally enough) pass that cost along. For $25 a year, it seems pretty reasonable to me, and the 30-day trial that comes with the $2.99 app purchase should give you enough time to try it out and see if you like it.
Likes: Even in "basic" navigation mode, having a "course up" map is a welcome change over Google Maps. The search feature is terrific, especially since it's all "live," and allows you to search for stuff "near me," "on route," or "at destination" (or, of course, "everywhere").
Issues: After using it for less than a day, the only "bug" I've noticed is the iPod integration went haywire when I was trying to select a playlist from within GPS Drive (it worked fine if I started a playlist before launching GPS Drive.)
Enhancements I'd like to see in future releases include: landscape mode, an option to cut down on the number of audio prompts, full screen mode, and more ability to customize the displayed data. I may find others after I've had a chance to use it more, but Fullpower has a great history of regular enhancements and updates, so I expect the program will only get better.
THE APP OF MY DREAMS!!!
I've used Magellon, TomTom, Garmond dashboard nav systems in the past... but lately when I travel it's just easier to use my iPhone. Only thing... I wanted voice directions! Was on a business trip recently & carpooled with a friend whose service provider had the voice direction thing, but it was so annoying we turned it off. MotionX is the answer to my prayers!! Love the features/options it offers, the maps and graphics are easy to read and follow - and the voice directions ROCK!! They not only get you there without staring at the phone... but I could listen to that voice all day. A couple of times on the road I've had to! Don't know how they're doing it for $2.99. Amazing. I'm in the free (for a month - woohoo!) voice directions test phase, but I'll be signing up for that continuing service with a smile on my face. Thank you, thank you MotionX!!!
!!! Read Before Buying !!!
For those of you out there thinking this $3 app will replace TomTom or Navigon; you may wish to reconsider.
First off; lets get a few things out of the way....the way the developers talk the app up is a bit shady. For one thing, if you want it to act as a traditional turn by turn navigation device, you'll have to pay some form of subscription. I haven't activated my "30 days free" and won't because I'll test it when I actually need it for thanks giving next month. As for now, I've been using it in the "free" mode. The good thing here is that the MotionX offeres a relatively cheap solution. $3/month or $25/year offers a decent value when compaired to the higher up-front costs of other solutions. If I wanted to; I could just pay $3 for each of the months I might require a turn-by-turn device. Its a flexible subscription. Unfortunately, like many people; I prefer a one-time-for-life-fees.
Secondly and probably the most important part of a road GPS: ROUTE RECALCULATIONS!!! Route Recalculations are the very most important part of a car based GPS. I miss exits all the time....sometimes by accident, other times because I want to see whats down some country road or inspect a road side attraction (Farm, lake, whatever...I love to explore).....whatever the case may be: MotionX doesn't seem interested in getting me to my destination if I take a detour. It offers a solution from where you are to where you want to go....if you mess up...tough nuggets, you have to tap through like 5 screens to recalculate. Pain in the butt while driving; not to mention dangerous.
Thirdly; the app uses the internet heavily. Not bad in the metropolitian town I live in....but I fear when I visit rural areas where I won't have any bars; that I won't have any visuals OR be able to recalculate a route. This completely voids the purpose of the GPS system...subscription OR NOT!
Now...what you do get for $3: This app is basically like "Maps" that comes built in....except it uses Bing rather than Google; and for that I don't feel entirely ripped off. Bing is more accurate in some instances in my state than Google is. It offers a highlighted route, and shows where you are on the route. Stray and the route doesn't update...just like "Maps". Some people say that the search integration is better....I guess; "Maps" is a little more clunkly but I prefer the spatial visualization of the push-pins.
So its a win-some/loose-some; search interface is only 5-15% of a GPS in my opinon. This thing doesn't recalculate and that kills 80% of the reason of having a car-based navigation system. On the one hand, its always calculating routes based on the latest info in their databases. But the loose-some is that should you need to recalculate a route where there's no internet; you'll be S.O.L. The win-some is that it's $3...and at $25/year would take 4 years before it's more expensive than the TomTom app. The loose-some is that as a car-based GPS, its lacking the built-in maps, the ability to recalculate in the boonies, and a decent interface (speed, overall distance, LANDSCAPE mode, night mode, and so on).
If you want a Bing version of "Maps" it might be worth your $3. If you want a dirt-cheap TomTom that MIGHT get you home....its' worth the $28 for this year. Otherwise I'd say just buy an older TomTom, Mio, Garmen, Magellian, etc on ebay for like $40.
- Category: Navigation
- Updated Feb 23, 2010
- Current Version: 3.2
- 7.5 MB
- Languages: English
- Seller: Fullpower Technologies, Inc.
- © 2003-2010 Fullpower Technologies, Inc.
Requirements: Compatible with iPhone. Requires iPhone OS 3.0 or later.
Top In App Purchases
- 1 30 Days of Live Voice Guidance $2.99
- 2 1 Year of Live Voice Guidance $24.99
