Brussels, Robin Bollen, March 14 2010

TomTom has kept their promise, to include as many features as possible in the iPhone application, that are already incorporated in their current PNDs.

HD Traffic is an In-App purchase and available in the UK, DE, NL, BE , CH.

Last winter it was significant how big the difference was of the KMs traffic jam reported by TomTom HD, compared to the official Public traffic service publications. Especially on February 1st there was in The Netherlands 107.5 hours (2628km) traffic being reported on TomTom HD Traffic. The longest jam was 88.5 km.

In this article we will install this feature and compare it with the current competition to see how they have traffic services as well for less money.

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Brussels, Robin Bollen, March 13 2010.

SHAPE Services has released another great idea. They must have been thinking, Apple is selling around 9 million iPhones per quarter now, that makes a lot of headsets. All these people use already some kind of communication tool on their Personal Computers at home, like Skype, so why not link the 2 together?

With Headset you are not wired to your PC anymore and you can enjoy the freedom of walking around the house when talking.

The app works with the following programs: MSN/Windows Live, Yahoo, Google Talk, AOL IM, ICQ, YouTube, Skype, MagicJack or any other VOIP program. The iPhone application works together with a Windows application called Mobiola, which can be downloaded for free.

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Professional car navigation meets pedestrian-centric application with social networking in a single real 3-D futuristic product from Sygic, equipped with voice-guided voice assistance in more than 20 languages. Within Sygic’s AURA (http://aura.sygic.com), a comprehensive pre-installed data set encompasses Tele Atlas detailed maps and content, far-reaching points of interest, geo-tagged wiki and city guide information.

Full 3-D content displays elevation, buildings and landscapes attractively, and AURA responds smoothly to changing location, whether users are driving or walking. Sygic’s proven car navigation delivers quick route calculation, turn-by-turn features, lane assistance, highway symbols, speed alerts and safety cameras. AURA features contacts and buddy search with a direct call option. A community package permits AURA users to share experiences with other Aura users, by voting on a local restaurant or far-flung destinations.

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Hungarian company Nav N Go presents iGO primo™ to OEM partners – an easy-to-use navigation solution that features the company’s latest technological advancements

In anticipation of CeBIT 2010, Nav N Go announces the launch of iGO primo™. This year’s product highlight enables OEM partners to provide a rich and innovative feature set to discerning customers who seek the utmost in quality. iGO primo™ is built on the same concept of simplicity and an intuitive user interface that was introduced with iGO amigo™ in 2009. The latest product now adds over 30 new features and hundreds of enhancements to the iGO My way engine without compromising the simplicity of the innovative user interface.

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Now ready to download from App Store, an amended version of the full Europe package of the iGO My way app, offering the latest Navteq and Top-Map maps for Europe as well as text-to-speech voice guidance, provides you with better navigation!

For those of you who haven’t seen the app in action, here is the video;

Finally Mobile Maps Europe version 8.0.1 has been delivered. It was already announced mid last month but was delayed because of a technical iTunes issue. This is the biggest update to date and a very welcome one, to keep Sygic in the top of the GPS apps market. Here is what they have to say;

“In this major Mobile Maps update for iPhone, that we are providing to our customers for free, we have tried to include maximum of the features our users demanded so far, as well as our own ideas to make the app even more useful and user-friendly. We are thankful to all people who have provided their feedback on our product. We hope they’ll like the results and we encourage them to speak to us anytime they’d like to share any comment or idea.” says Michal Stencl, Sygic’s CEO.

Mobile World Congress, Barcelona – Leading mobile GPS navigation developer ALK Technologies has announced that its CoPilot® Live™ v8 GPS navigation mobile app will now include integral access to local Internet search as standard across all supported smartphone platforms.

Previously available as a premium option, CoPilot Live v8’s integrated access to local search enables users to quickly and easily find whatever they are looking for, whether it’s the nearest service, product, brand or shop. Search results are displayed in the on-screen map or as a list. Make your choice and CoPilot Live will guide you right there, with on-screen and spoken turn-by-turn directions.

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Users can now teach waze their alternative route preferences to frequent destinations, plus see how they stack up against the local and worldwide competition

Waze, the first free provider of driver-generated maps and real-time road information geared towards everyday driving, today announced a new version featuring personalized alternative routes as well as a scoreboard, allowing commuters to see where they stand among the larger driving community in their area.

Waze specializes in optimizing everyday driving. Unlike regular navigation, when commuting, users most often have clear preferences for specific routes, and know the alternatives. The information that they are missing is:  what’s happening on my alternative routes RIGHT now, and which route they should take. Waze’s new alternative routes feature is personalized, allowing users to teach waze the multiple routes to destinations that they commonly travel to.

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It seems unlikely that the word crisis would disappear from our life in the near future. Controlling our personal financial status has been always important but, these days, it seems even more important. There are many applications for financial management and banking supervision for the iPhone, hard to choose between a range this wide. Today we will analyze SplashMoney from SplashData. The version I’ve tested is 4.7.2, the update was made in December last year.

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Nav4D has just released several edition of their brand new Turn-by-Turn Voice guided GPS app. In just a few days they released for the following editions; Brazil, France, UK - Ireland, Mexico, Portugal, Germany, Spain and South Africa.

The application looks very basic, although it also incorporates the 3D landmarks, like iGO My way and NDrive. There is not much info yet available at this moment. It has POI support, some POI search and 2D and 3D views.

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