March 3, 2010
- During this years CES, Motorola announced a new and striking pnd, the Motonav TN-765. I was able to get my hands on a pre-production version of it and have been getting familiar the past few days. There’s two things that will immediately get your attention: The extra wide, cinema-like 5.1″ screen and the vibrant [...]
March 2, 2010
- TomTom has announced they have submitted to Apple version 1.3 of their iPhone app. The new version will bring two new features, Google Local search for POIs as well as live traffic. (Yes, live traffic in the USA.) No word yet on pricing of the traffic subscription. “TomTom is fully committed to offering TomTom app users [...]
March 1, 2010
- Today at CeBIT, Nav N Go released a new version of their iGO software, now called iGO Primo. For those who are not familiar with iGO, the software is delivered with OEM partners who wish to offer GPS devices under their brand name, but don’t wish to develop navigation software from scratch. iGO has been [...]
February 16, 2010
- Just how far away are the GPS satellites in orbit above the earth? Really far. Really, really far. About 20,200 kilometers (12,500 miles). But just naming the distance doesn’t give you the full picture– so we made a picture to scale. Passenger Jet A passenger jet cruises along at roughly 12 km. At the sale of our [...]
February 11, 2010
- Related Article This article is a companion to our Lane Assist article to help you distinguish between these two similar features. Junction View was a feature first made popular in North America by Navigon which they called Reality View. Since then most other manufacturers have rolled out similar features by slightly different names. So what is it? [...]
- Related Article This article is a companion to our Junction Image article to help you distinguish between these two similar features. Lane Assist is becoming a popular feature recently as the data that drives it becomes more complete. It does what the title suggests– gives you clues about which lane you should be in as you approach [...]
February 9, 2010
- A new app called Route4Me has made an appearance at the app store. The application is designed to do one simple task… take a list of locations you need to visit and determine the most efficient order shortest distance to visit each of them. We’ve spent quite a bit of time talking about Route Optimization [...]
- In conjunction with MacWorld, today Navigon released version 1.5 of their iPhone app. The app adds new features not yet found on most other iPhone navigation apps– 3D terrain, integration with social media sites like Facebook and Twitter, and the ability to identify and remember user’s preferred routes. The 3D data comes from NASA and provides [...]
February 5, 2010
- I just noticed that version 1.5i of AT&T Navigator (TeleNav) for the iPhone was just released. Among the new features is something interesting that caught my eye… “Shake-to-Go”. Open the app, shake the iPhone, and it will create a route back home from wherever you are. Brilliant. Other features include a speed limit display and optional [...]
- In the context of car GPS devices, frequently people will ask me about WAAS. If WAAS improves the accuracy of GPS, isn’t it good for car GPS devices? Well, maybe… but probably not. It is time for a discussion about why WAAS was developed, what WAAS is good for and what it does, and when [...]