Brussels, Robin Bollen // Oct 04, 2009.

The Portuguese company, NDrive Navigation System, S.A. just released their second cycle of Turn-byTurn Voice Guided GPS applications. The 25th September they released the Portuguese Edition for 39,99 Euro.

Today they have released the following editions;

• Ndrive Benelux
• Ndrive Canada
• Ndrive HongKong and Macau
• Ndrive Hungary, Austria and Croatia
• Ndrive Poland, Czech Republic and Slovakia

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It is difficult to keep abreast of newly emerging applications in the App Store for iPhone. Also, browse through iTunes by the application code is at times cumbersome.

To make this task easier, Apple has updated its website with a guide on the applications for the iPhone. It is divided into several categories, like iTunes, but the navigation is more agile. Each day, they make recommendations on the latest apps and there is even a section with favorite applications from Apple employees.

Visit the following link http://www.apple.com/iphone/apps-for-everything/

Brussels, Robin Bollen // Sept 30, 2009.

ALK Technologies, Ltd. left a tweet yesterday that their just fresh upgraded iPhone app for North America has already been upgraded again. The last update is from September 17.

The Europe app upgrade is next up and will arrive soon.

The new or upgraded features are:

1. TTS (Text-to-Speech) turn instructions, it reads out street names now. Navigon was the first to offer this in their 1.2.0 upgrade of MobileNavigator. I have tested it several times and I start to like it. I am learning now the street names in my neighborhood better after living there for over 3 years now.

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Brussels, Robin Bollen // Sept 29, 2009.

Just a few days ago, Fullpower Technologies has released their MotionX GPS Drive app. This is basically the successor of their previous application called MotionX GPS. This is already the 8th Turn-by-Turn application for the iPhone, next to: Sygic, Navigon, iGO My way, TomTom, CoPilot Live, G-Map and NDrive that does not have a monthly subscription fee.

They have added Voice Guided Turn-by-Turn directions to the app. Well, in a buyable manner so to speak (in-app purchases). You can buy Optional Live Voice Guidance packages which expire every 30 days. The app starts at only $2.99 with 30 days of Voice Guidance for free.

MotionX GPS is an application that is heavily used by outdoor sporting iPhone people. The most requested feature was Voice guidance, and that has been delivered in this application.

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Brussels, Robin Bollen // Sept 29, 2009.

With the iPhone 3.0 OS and the new Bluetooth support, a lot of new apps are to be expected that interface with current bluetooth hardware, or even better, special hardware developed with this iPhone feature in mind. Like shown in the keynote before, the medical world is already developing in this direction.

Pioneer, hence it’s name, is pioneering with the iPhone bluetooth functionality in combination with their GPS devices.

The free application NavGate lets you select a destination on the iPhone and transfer it via Bluetooth, to the Pioneer Turn-by-Turn Voice Guided GPS navigation systems: AVIC-F310BT and AVIC-F10BT.

Simply select an address, a restaurant, a POI or any other place on Google Maps iPhone application. The destination is saved in the contact list and, after syncing the two devices via Bluetooth, is sent to the Pioneer navigation system. The destinations created by NavGate FEEDS iPhone are identified with the letter “M” on the browser screen. After selecting these destinations, the GPS leads us to there.

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Brussels, Robin Bollen // Sept 25, 2009.

Today, NDrive Navigation System S.A., has released a real full fledged Turn-By-Turn Voice guided GPS application for the Portuguese Market. It is 233 MB big and costs only 39,99 Euro.

It promises to give you a lifetime license to the latest maps. It has a lot of features that the other professional iPhone GPS apps have. Like iGO’s 3D rendered landmarks. 3D navigation and automatic Portrait and Landscape mode to name just a few.

We are really interested in reviewing this one. So that is what we are going to do in October.

[Update] NDrive confirmed that they will release a version for every iPhone country.

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Someone called Pakman, commented on the CoPilot vs TomTom review, that CoPilot Live is making questionable routing decisions. I requested live examples so I can do something with it.

Because I did not receive any, I decided to compare several routes with all the GPS apps on the EU market, namely Sygic, CoPilot Live, iGO My way, TomTom, Navigon and Ndrive.

Many articles have been written about this subject already for conventional GPS PNDs but not many about the iPhone apps.

Also I will try to visualize the logic of TomTom IQ routes.

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Brussels, Robin Bollen // Sept 23, 2009.

The last update of the Turn-by-Turn GPS iPhone application of Sygic Mobile Maps is now available on the App Store. This latest edition is version 7.71.4 and affects all regional editions of the application: Europe, Brazil, Russia, UK & Ireland, U.S., America, Australia & New Zealand and SE Asia.

We will review this version and post about it later on. Also we will update all the compare articles with this new information.

[Update] The European Edition is in promotion now for only 59,99 Euros. Sygic Mobile Maps US - now $ 39,99. Sygic Mobile Maps America - North - now $ 59,99. Australia & New Zealand and UK/Ireland have promotion price, too.

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LOS ANGELES and HONG KONG, Sept. 21 /PRNewswire-Asia-FirstCall/—Artificial Life, Inc., (OTC BB: ALIF - News), ( http://www.artificial-life.com ), today announced the launch of the BMW Sauber F1 Team Racing 09 game on the iPhone and iPod touch platform, retailing at a launch price of USD 1.99. This is the second collaboration between BMW and Artificial Life developing iPhone applications.

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Brussels, Robin Bollen // Sept 20, 2009.

Europe newcomer G-Map Voice Guided GPS app is releasing quickly new Editions. Before introducing Europe coverage with the UK and Ireland maps and now following with these countries;

• Germany G-Map Deutschland

• G-Map France

• Austria, Liechtenstein, Italy, Vatican City, San Marino and Switzerland G-Map ALPS

All versions cost 31,99 Euro.

Looking at the different screenshots, it is not clear to me if it supports proper 3D views, like the screenshots they have released in the Canada app. If you bought it let us know please with a comment.
 
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