that it plans to bring free turn-by-turn GPS Navigation with voice guidance to the iPhone .
“We did not say we would bring it to iPhone , we said to date we've had it on Android and that in the future it may come to other platforms but did not confirm this will be coming to iPhone at all,”
It’s not clear why Google isn’t planning to bring the free turn-by-turn GPS Navigation with voice guidance to the iPhone , which is the biggest smartphone (more…)

Google confirmed at a London press conference that it plans to bring free satnav to other smartphone platforms, including the iPhone , although it wouldn’t say when.
like TomTom are quite expensive on the App Store.
Since Google Maps Navigation doesn’t store maps on the device like other apps it pre-caches the entire route when a user requests for directions. Google Mobile Maps product manager, Steve Lee explains:
“Google Maps pre-caches (more…)

However, this is not meant to be a competitive edge for the Droid, at least at this stage. Google has announced that the company would love to offer the same service over the iPhone as well, provided the bosses at Cupertino give their nod. This comes in the backdrop of constant squabbling between the two companies in the past few months over
for the iPhone . Google CEO, Eric Schmidt who had to
in the wake of these disputes, has however insisted (more…)

CoPilot Live's map view could use some cleanup and suffers some lag when switching between the vertical and horizontal positions.

(Credit: Screenshot by Dong Ngo/CNET)

CoPilot Live is the fourth turn-by-turn GPS application with offline built-in maps for all of North America that I have on my iPhone 3GS. After Navigon, iGo My Way, and TomTom, I thought there would be nothing new I could find in a navigation (more…)

TomTom is one of the market leaders in Portable Navigation Devices
(PNDs) and deals with digital mapping and routing on car navigation.
Back in June, TomTom had provided the following information on their website about their highly anticipated iPhone app:
TomTom U.S. & Canada: NZ $124.99 (US $84.41) – (
Western Europe: NZ $179.99 (US $121.55) – (
Australia: NZ $104.99 (US $70.90) – (
New Zealand: NZ $119.99 (US $81.03) – (
The prices (more…)