NAVIGON MobileNavigator North America
By NAVIGON AG
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Description
☞ Check out the new features of version 1.6!
With the NAVIGON MobileNavigator you can transform your iPhone into a fully functional mobile navigation system that is every bit as good as the multi-award-winning personal navigation devices from NAVIGON in terms of its user-friendliness and features.
Thanks to a faithful adaptation of the menu functions, the NAVIGON MobileNavigator fits in seamlessly with the operating concept of the iPhone. The application includes map material from the market leader NAVTEQ.
"I thought Navigon had the cleanest interface and the best 3D map view” - Walt Mossberg, The Wall Street Journal
"Right now Navigon MobileNavigator is the best choice available" - Macworld
"Navigon is still the best bet" - Gizmodo
"Personally, I prefer Navigon because it works with the phone's address book." - CNET
"Navigon is worth the investment ... The future of GPS is here." - MobileCrunch
Features and range of functions:
- Simple, intuitive user interface
- Can be used in portrait and landscape format
- Precise voice announcements
- Intelligent address entry
- Reality View Pro (realistic display of motorway interchanges and exits)
- Lane Assistant Pro
- Real signpost display
- Speed Assistant with adjustable audio-visual warning
- Day and night mode for map display
- Direct access and navigation to contacts saved in the iPhone’s address book
- The latest NAVTEQ map material
- Navigation is automatically resumed after an incoming phone call
- 2D and 3D map displays (bird’s-eye view)
- Quick access to user-defined POIs in the area and along the route
- Take Me Home function with a single click
- Automatic language selection to match the iPhone’s user language
- Route Planning
- Text-to-Speech voice guidance
- Automatic Day/Night adjustment
- Integrated iPod control
- Location sharing via Email
- Enhanced Pedestrian Navigation
- Google Local Search
- Coordinate Input
- SOS/DirectHelp
- Turn-by-Turn RouteList
- NAVIGON Traffic Live in US, CAN (In App Purchase)
- Panorama View 3D (In App Purchase)
- NAVIGON MyRoutes
- Connection to Facebook and Twitter
Included maps:
USA (incl. Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands), Canada
>>> IMPORTANT NOTE:
Unfortunately the automatic restoring of In App Purchases doesn't work properly when you delete the app prior to updating it. Therefore just click on the item and pretend to buy it. As long as you purchased it already with the same iTunes account you'll get a notification afterwards confirming your earlier purchase and you can activate it for free again.
IF YOU ENCOUNTER DIFFICULTIES REGARDING THE GPS RECEPTION OF YOUR IPHONE PLEASE CHECK THE FAQ SECTION AT OUR WEB SITE www.navigon.com/iPhone.
Whether in the car, by bike or on foot, NAVIGON hopes you have fun navigating.
www.navigon.com/facebook
www.navigon.com/twitter_us
What's New In Version 1.6.0
- iOS 4 support including Multitasking and FastAppSwitch
- Latest available NAVTEQ map data
- Live Weather information (at destination and on route)
- CleverParking (Parking spots around your destination and prior to arriving at the destination are shown)
- New destination overview screen providing weather, parking and POI information around your destination
- Refined RealityView Pro
Customer Reviews
you do NOT loose Live Traffic after Update
I cannot believe that there are so many morons out there. Once you purchase Traffic Live Updates, it is yours. EVEN IF YOU UPDATE Navigon AND YOUR EXTRAS DO NOT SHOW UP JUST REPURCHASE THEM. The app store will recognize that you already purchased them and ask you whether you want to download them for free again.
STOP giving this app lower ratings for YOUR STUPIDITY. Rate it based on its features or lack of features but for your stupidity and/or ignorance.
Also your contacts are under the "More" option on the bottom right. This is where Navigon could have done a better job to make it more obvious.
Great App
There appears to be a lot of misinformation about this app. I have just purchased Navigon MobileNavigator North America (version 1.5.1) and am using it on a new 16 GB iPhone 3GS. The app runs flawlessly. Download (1.47 GB) and installation took about 25 minutes (cable internet). I had bought the TomTom car kit since reviews have stated that the iPhone’s GPS was not that strong. I have not yet tried it because the internal iPhone GPS was able to get me a signal in just a few seconds. At startup, the GPS accuracy was pretty inaccurate (160 meters), and this may account for reviews in which people complain about inaccuracy. However, if I waited another 10-20 seconds before moving, the GPS homed in on me and accuracy was no longer an issue. The maps are quite beautiful. The maps were accurate to at least about 2 years (which is better than the navigation system in my car). The program does have text to speech (actual street names are announced), and the voice quality was quite clear (not at all scratchy). The text to speech was far more than I had expected. Instead of “take the next right onto I-495 N” or “take exit 5, south” it would say “take the next right onto I-495 to Baltimore” and “take exit 5, Falls Road, then bear immediately to the left onto Falls Road south. I found this extra information to be very helpful. The voice prompts come at reasonable times so that following them was quite easy. At the first chance I had, I ignored the instructions and went right instead of left. Re-routing occurred automatically (and correctly) and within a second. I have no idea why so many reviewers expressed concern about “toll roads”; you have the ability to avoid, forbid or take toll roads. You can see the route that has been selected (route steps). The software does show the estimated time of arrival. You can see all sorts of POI (gas stations, ATMs, restaurants, etc. Contrary to a recent review, Google search is provided by the software. Perhaps the person who complained about its absence did not realize that the Google logo shown on the POI page was actually an icon (to be fair, it doesn’t look like the other icons on the page). Select it and you can then search Google for a destination. Select the destination and the software will route you to it.
I purchased 3D panorama view. Download requires a wifi connection and took perhaps 30 minutes or more to complete and install. At least where I was driving in Maryland, it did not show hills or other terrain features. It’s main effect was to “tilt” the angle of the ground so that it shows the same map with more sky. Additionally, roads were shown with more features (divided highways appeared with more detail). It made startup a bit (3 seconds) slower, but did not affect speed of refreshing or updating the screen once under way. It did make the maps look prettier, although sometimes the iPhone’s screen resolution did not appear to be up to the demands of the software and some lines were rendered with a razor thin jagged look. All in all it is a very nice add-on. One can switch back and forth between panorama 3D, regular 3D and 2D; the switch takes less than a second.
Beautiful Looking but I cannot trust the navigation
I have been interested in getting this app for some time, and decided to try it when the price was temporarily lowered in November. Having tested this out now for fewf weeks or so, I have come to the conclusion that I cannot trust this as my main navigation application. I've experienced several problems, some minor annoyances and others more serious. Starting with a minor annoyance, I cannot save my Home destination, as I have tried numerous times to enter the address and save it as my home, but after I exit the app, the next time I push the "take me home" button, it makes me enter my address all over again! I was able to save it as a favorite, and also it's in the recent section, but this is highly annoying. Next annoyance is that there is no apparent way to organize the favorites. I am used to Garmin PND's and they usually display your favorites by distance, from least to furthest--this is at least something, as I hate to have to scroll through my favorites, flicking until I find the one I want. Another annoyance, more serious to me, is the lack of a written step by step route summary (many others have mentioned this). I would like to be able to preview the route, or even better, choose between different types of routes. If there's an easy way to do this, I haven't found it. In fact, the lack of support and documentation for this application is appalling. The most serious problem I have encountered, however is this: Often, it sends me in a completely wrong direction! Perhaps because of the traffic rerouting (which you cannot necessarily prevent), it has suggested several times sending me in the total opposite direction--since I knew where I was going already, I ignored it, and it rerouted me quickly and correctly in most cases. However, if I didn't know where I was going or in a strange town, I'd wind up hopelessly lost or late. Just to see what would happen I did allow it to reroute me in what seemed like the wrong direction in Boston, and it sent me so far out of my way I had to turn my Garmin Nuvi on just to get where I was going from where it sent me. Since I also have the Nuvi, I have simultaneously run this application, the Nuvi and also the Google Maps Nav on my corporate phone, the Droid. The Navigon usually took the slowest and least efficient route (again, because I know which routes are the best in my area for the most part), with the Nuvi the clear winner in every case. So I've decided that I wasted my $$$ on this application, and would only use it when I knew where I was going already, since the UI is absolutely gorgeous, the onscreen info is good, the speed limit and warnings are annoying but useful, and I really wish I could trust this app and ditch my nuvi to have less to carry--that's the point of using my iPhone anyway (I have it mounted with an FM transmitter/mount/charger) and it would be great to have one device do it all for me in the car. I'm hoping for an update to the app that would fix some or all of these problems, but some of the navigational errors are so shockingly wrong that I'm dumbfounded and not sure I can ever trust the app. I wrote to Navigon's support re: the inability to save my home address, but haven't heard anything and it's been a few weeks. It's disappointing, and frankly the Google app may become better than anything in time, but that is my work phone, and I don't take it with me when I'm not doing business, so it would be an extra device, also. Oh well.
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$79.99
- Category: Navigation
- Updated:Jul 10, 2010
- Current Version:1.6.0
- 1.6.0 (iOS 4.0 Tested)
- 1.52 GB
- Languages:English, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish
- Seller:NAVIGON AG
- © 2009 NAVIGON AG
Requirements:Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. Requires iPhone OS 3.0 or later.
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