Garmin StreetPilot onDemand
By Garmin
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Description
Garmin StreetPilot® onDemand brings the power of Garmin navigation to your iPhone® with rich navigation features for walking or driving, a simple and intuitive user interface, and an amazingly low price. Using your data connection, StreetPilot onDemand always has access to the most up-to-date maps for the U.S. and Canada so you can navigate with confidence whether you’re on foot or in the car. Install the app while you’re on-the-go and begin navigating in minutes.
StreetPilot onDemand includes 30 days of access to Premium Navigation with Traffic. After 30 days, you can still enjoy many navigation functions, or you can opt for a monthly or yearly subscription via in-app purchase. This subscription includes voice-guided navigation with automatic off-route recalculation, integrated real-time traffic, photoReal junction view, 3D buildings and landmarks, lane guidance, speed limits and more.
StreetPilot onDemand is loaded with pedestrian-friendly options. With an active subscription, StreetPilot onDemand gives you precise directions using all the available public transit options, with a detailed itinerary of transit stops and walking instructions, so you don’t spend your time waiting.
StreetPilot onDemand provides a wealth of premium benefits with an active subscription:
-Navigate in the car with voice-prompted, turn-by-turn directions including street names
-Access real-time traffic updates and see the estimated traffic delay along your route
-View speed limits for most major roads
-Create, edit, and save multiple routes using Trip Planner
-Know the correct lane before it’s too late with lane guidance and photoReal junction views
-Navigate while walking with routes that integrate public transportation into your itinerary
-Detour around unexpected roadblocks or emerging traffic conditions
-See 3D buildings and landmarks for added awareness while navigating
-Download free voices from Garmin Garage
-Check-In On Arrival makes it easy to post your location to your favorite social network
Without a subscription, StreetPilot onDemand still offers many features:
-Get driving or walking directions to any destination and track your progress on the moving map
-Find new places to visit with suggestions based on your previous search history
-Explore with integrated Facebook®, foursquare®, and Wikipedia® locations
-Download free vehicle icons from Garmin Garage-Have the latest maps for the U.S. and Canada, downloaded to your device on demand
-Browse maps you've recently viewed, even when outside of data coverage areas
- Look up points-of-interest (POIs) such as restaurants, gas stations, hotels and more with Google local search
-Navigate to contacts in your address book
-Place calls directly from search listings
-Navigate in both portrait and landscape mode
-Pinch, pan, zoom, and rotate maps with full gesture support
-Listen to music while navigating with integrated iPod® music controls
-Access other apps on your device while navigating with multi-tasking support
StreetPilot onDemand lets you access your subscription on multiple devices using the same iTunes account at no additional cost. You can conveniently manage your subscription through your iTunes account and cancel at any time.
Map coverage:
United States, Canada, Puerto Rico, U.S. Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, The Bahamas, French Guiana, Guadeloupe, Martinique, Saint Barthélemy and Jamaica.
Public transit information is available in 31 metropolitan areas. Transit coverage varies by market. Please select the Garmin Web Site link below for more information.
Garmin StreetPilot onDemand has been designed to run on Apple iPhone devices with iOS version 4.0 or above and works in compatibility mode on the Apple iPad devices running iOS 4.0 and above.
Please note that continued use of GPS running in the background can dramatically decrease battery life.
What's New in Version 7.5.2
-Trip Computer provides interesting statistics about your drive. Just tap the speed field on the map page to see your details
-Minor bug fixes and performance improvements
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Customer Reviews
Best commercial app I
First, let me say that I'm a casual GPS/Navigation app user. I really need turn-by-turn navigation (maybe) four or five times a year, mostly when I travel. I don't use it on a day-to-day basis (been there, know how to get there again).
So I'm looking for a good, but inexpensive (free or pay-as-you-go), solution. I'm currently evaluating Waze (free), AT&T's Navigator, and Garmin's onDemand. So far, onDemand is the best pay-as-you-go app I've used.
The Good:
I love onDemand's graphics. The display is clean and easy to read. I really like the lane indicator that shows what lane I need to be in (invaluable when navigating foreign freeways), and the photoReal junction view is fantastic.
The navigation quality is very high, in the routes I've tested so far. The suggested routes made sense and were easy to follow. I also really like the ability to create a multi-point route and save it. This is really handy when traveling, where I've plotted out a route of places I want to visit.
It's also just about the least expensive solution. I had been using AT&T's Navigator because the app was free and the service was only $7/month. I could turn it on when I went on a trip and turn it off again when I got back. Garmin's $10/year in-app purchase makes this even less expensive, and I'll probably just subscribe to the yearly service.
The Trade-offs:
While onDemand is a solid app, I do like features of Waze a lot too. Mostly, Waze seems to be more responsive to real-time traffic congestion (assuming you live in an area with plenty of other Waze users).
While onDemands graphics are better, Waze automatically scales the display based on your speed, which I find very appealing.
As others have pointed out, it would be really nice to have an independent volume control for the onDemand voice (in Waze you can set a lower/higher volume for the voice). I listen to audio-books while driving and the onDemand voice always scares the bajeezus out of me and my passengers when it cuts in.
Waze is also a social/community app, and as such you get a lot more real-time feedback and information from other drivers, such as cars on the side of the road, sudden traffic stoppages, police, and what not. This is dependent on the number of other Waze users in your area, but it makes Waze feel more "immediate".
Also, a lot of people make a big deal about the "real" human voice option in onDemand. But that option won't speak street names, which I find essential. So I leave it set to the "robot" voice, which isn't any better (or worse) than most of the other navigation apps I've tried.
The Bad:
The only real problem I've had with onDemand is address lookup. While routing is excellent, finding the address has been problematic.
In two cases, it couldn't find the address at all (and these are not obscure locations - one was a street in Tempe AZ that's been there for 40 years, and another was in San Diego that I've been to dozens of times). In other cases, I enter an exact street address and it presents me with 20 or 30 alternative addresses, like it can't quit figure out which one I mean. Most of the suggestions were not even close to the address I entered. I had this happen for an address in downtown LA, and I swear that, when I finally found the correct address in the list of suggestions, it was exactly the one I entered, making me wonder what the other 19 addresses were all about.
In contrast, while address lookup is great in Waze, sometimes the navigation suggestion are just bizarre. This is the reason I'm much more likely to trust onDemand in a location I've never been to before.
Overall:
Even with the negatives, onDemand is still my choice for the best navigation app for my needs. I'll probably continue to switch back and forth between it and Waze for now, but I have two trips coming up and onDemand will be my app of choice. If Garmin fixed a few of the interface issues and made address lookup a little smarter, that would really put it over the top.
Garmin onDemand
the first day the app worked perfectly, the next day after a day of driving to multiple locations, the app started to display the waiting indicator and then crashed regularly after that. The application needs to run in the foreground, all other location based apps needs to be disabled, sms and email needs to be closed. There appears to be a memory allocation issue and a app interrupt thet needs to be looked into. For the price the app works great, although getting a home location programmed seems to make the app crash. If Garmin is looking for good QA peolple you may want to offer a fremium version with advertisements until the bugs are identified
Great except entering coordinates
Forgot to take my real Garmin on a very complicated rural driving trip, do tried this app and had great success.
Potential cons:
I was enjoying the free 30 days of full version.
If you want directions to play out of car stereo using Bluetooth it depends on the car: toyota worked great; new ford seemed impossible.
Can't find a way to ENTER lat/long coordinates to navigate to!! Anytime you touch map it OUTPUTS coordinates. But no way to input destination as coordinates! I could find no work around. Like you can't edit the coordinates associated with a "favorite" waypoint.
- $0.99
- Category: Navigation
- Updated: Apr 09, 2012
- Version: 7.5.2
- Size: 18.7 MB
- Language: English
- Seller: Garmin International
- © Garmin International, Inc. 2011
Requirements: Compatible with iPhone 3G, iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, iPhone 4S, iPad Wi-Fi + 3G, iPad 2 Wi-Fi + 3G and iPad Wi-Fi + 4G.Requires iOS 4.0 or later.
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