NDrive announces NDrive London, the first of NDrive’s Cities for iPhone. NDrive London combines NDrive’s turn by turn GPS technology with aerial photography to create a more realistic experience for the end user.

NDrive partnered with Blom, a Norwegian firm that provides aerial photography, to deliver this revolutionary product to the iPhone app market. NDrive London can be downloaded at the App store for £5.99.

“With the launch of NDrive Cities we set a new precedent for GPS applications. NDrive cities is an application which boasts incredibly detailed imagery (via aerial photography) combined with our turn by turn GPS technology. The result is a truly revolutionary product.”  – Eduardo Carqueja, Founder.

NDrive stated that more cities would become available in coming weeks including Rome, Paris, Oslo, New York, Los Angeles, Toronto, and many more. Some cities will have aerial photography and some will not.

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iPhoneTunes has selected some games recently published or upcoming in the App Store.

• Ground Effect - Glenn Corpes - $3.99
• Star Rangers - ANALOGretro - $4.99
• Twin Blades - Press Start Studio and Bulkypix - not defined yet (Dec release)

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“The Universe, yours to discover”. This suggestive quote welcomes us to open the application from Vito Technology, Star Walk. “A Walk in the stars”, is the title of the application and certainly lives up to its name. In short we can summarize Star Walk as a pocket planetarium.

How do you adjust something as big as the Universe to something as small as the iPhone screen?

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Brussels, Robin Bollen // Nov 08, 2009

MotionX was leading the *outdoor* GPS apps sales in the past. They had great momentum with their app called MotionX GPS for outdoor sporting people, which loved their offering in the App Store. And then they surprisingly released MotionX GPS Drive. Competing directly with big names like TomTom, Sygic, Navigon, iGO My way and Ndrive. They undercut the current model of paying one time for the maps of your choice, to the model of 30 day for free maps and paying for every month you need it with an “In App Purchase”, all to be downloaded and cached over 3G.

Now since some time has passed, MotionX did not stood still and developed the 2.0 edition which has the following great improvements.

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Brussels, Robin Bollen // Nov 05, 2009

CoPilot Live has silently updated 5 of their editions to the new version 8.0.0.469. The following countries/regions are updated: UK and Ireland, North America, Nordics, Italia and Iberia. All the other Editions: Europe, D-A-CH, France and BeNeLux still are at 8.0.0.417.

The updates differ per edition. The North America edition updates the following:

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Sygic presents two new regional apps for iPhone, that have just been launched on iTunes App Store – one for Colombia and one for Gulf Countries, including Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates.

Turn-by-turn voice guided navigation software Sygic Mobile Maps converts mobile phones into full-featured navigation devices. Sygic now extends its regional availability by further regions – in South America, it is adding Colombia to currently available app for Brazil, and a brand new regional app enhances the navigation options in Asia, specifically in the Gulf Countries, covering Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates. Sygic has so far launched apps for Australia & New Zealand, Brazil, Europe, North America (incl. USA, Canada & Mexico), Russia (for iPhone only), South East Asia (incl. Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia), UK & Ireland, and US (for iPhone only).

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New York, Andy Prior // Nov 04, 2009

We told you about the pending release of a BMW sponsored F1 racing game back in September. Well the game has been out for a bit and we felt it was time to take a lap around the track again and give you a full speed review.

To be very honest, as I stood at the pitstop waiting to climb in my car I let out a personal groan before the app even finished downloading - “Ohh great, another iPhone racing game”. I think the first 50 were a novel use of the accelerometer but my real fear was, as much as I like BMW, I would be spending the next few days playing the same old game - different branding. So, with the app downloaded, climb on in for a test drive of Artificial Life’s BMW Sauber F1 Team Racing 09. Hold on tight and remember - first impressions are not always right.

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Brussels, Robin Bollen // Nov 04, 2009

To my big surprise, I saw in my iTunes updates this morning, that the new release of MobileNavigator has arrived. A lot of people are waiting for this version, they bought the more expensive Europe app and were not first served with the new update. First the editions of DACH, Benelux, Nordics, France and Britsh Isles were released in 1.3.0.

The most important new feature is the Traffic Live service, which is a separate “In App” purchase. This service is available for A, B, D, DK, F, FIN, N, NL and S. Other updates are UK Postcode Navigation, which is also an “In App Purchase”. Furthermore some minor things like Enhanced map area search after destination input and the possibility to launch the app in landscape mode now.

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Brussels, Robin Bollen // Nov 03, 2009

Here is the fourth music app, in our iPhone Music Creation Review series. Dutch software house Makayama Media B.V. is in the App Store present with TuneMaker amongst a dozen other apps. We are reviewing version 1.0, and are interested to know how it stacks up against our last three music app reviews, Star6, Xewton Music Studio and Groovemaker.

It claims to be a music instrument and recording studio, let’s take a closer look at the app.

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NDrive has just released NDrive Western Europe on the iPhone App store.

Tele Atlas Maps included: Latest Continental Portugal, Spain, Andorra, Gibraltar, France and Monaco, Belgium, Luxembourg, The Netherlands, British Isles, Republic of Ireland, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Italy and Vatican, San Marino, Malta, Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden.

The cost is €59.99 (£42.99 or $74.99). The price is promotional until the end of November.

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