In the GPS world, nothing much comes for free, but Navigon’s new iPhone direction-finding app comes close: you can install it for nothing and check out a pretty comprehensive set of Australian maps.
As Nick over at Gizmodo points out, the ‘lite’ version of Navigon has one fairly serious limitation: no turn-by-turn directions. No price yet on the full version, which is due soon, but for iPhone-toting drivers, it might be worth considering when it lands.
Dan
Tuesday, July 21, 2009 at 10:50 AMI downloaded and tried this on my 16Gb 3G iphone. Its awful.
Firstly its a demo only, so while you can enter a destination or POI, it won’t create a route from your location, instead displaying a brief demonstration.
Its GUI is SLOW and very clunky. It may perform better on the 3GS, but if the demo is any indication of the full apps performance I wouldn’t recommend for everyone with a vanilla 3G iPhone.
I couldn’t invoke street level 3D. Not sure if I was doing something wrong, but I only got the ugly fly-over map.
Unless this demo is extremely stripped down (at 218mb??!!) I’ll be sticking with google maps.
strider
Tuesday, July 21, 2009 at 11:22 AMI love the fact that the picture showing the west gate freeway/todd road/citylink turnoffs is nothing like that anymore
Scott @sydneydesign
Tuesday, July 21, 2009 at 2:28 PMHi Great post thanks for the info. Looks like i don’t need the gps an more, just the iphone. boom
Krunal
Tuesday, October 20, 2009 at 11:13 AMHi Great info now i wont download this app anymore
bp
Thursday, November 26, 2009 at 3:26 PMI have to be fair. we bought a 5100 from Radio Shack for $70 and drove around USA for a month. LA, San Fran, Freeways etc
The system was brilliant, and was a lifesaver over and over. suggest stop wasting your time with an iphone and buy a proper gps?