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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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;

Brussels, Robin Bollen // Nov 25, 2009

A few days ago, we reported here that Waze was released in the App Store. The GPS apps are popping up like mushrooms on dog poop in the App Store now-a-days.

The Turn-by-Turn GPS application Waze, utilizes crowd sourcing technologies to make your daily driving experience a bit better and quicker. But it all comes down to your help too! Just download it, it is free.

In my first report I told you about a not so successful attempt to use the app. This was indeed the growing pains of the release date, too many users trying to connect at the same time. A few days later the app started working fine for me, and I could see user reports about traffic jams and police reports. I noticed that the app was used a lot in The Netherlands and some other countries around me in Belgium. I sometimes fire up the app and start munching roads.

Waze contacted us today with the great news that their app is already updated with the following cool features (and checkout the funny video!);

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Dracula : the Path of the Dragon will be hitting the iPhone this fall.

In this thrilling game you will live a fearsome adventure between myth and reality, science and history, medicine and superstition. And prepare to have your certainties about Vampires shaken!

In Dracula: the Path of the Dragon for the iPhone you play as Father Arno Moriani, who is sent to investigate a potential candidate for sainthood in Transylvania. Submerged into a riveting storyline, you are challenged to solve complex and engaging puzzles that lead to a final confrontation with Dracula! This gripping adventure sucks you in and leaves you “dying” for more.

The year is 1920. You begin your investigation of Dr. Martha Calugarul in the village of Vladoviste, half-destroyed in World War I. On the hillside sits the Castle of Twilight, the famed home of Vlad the Impaler.

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NY, Tony Karakashian // Oct 19, 2009.

In a move sure to make sure you’ll never have an iPhone on their network, Verizon has a new commercial for their Google Android-based phone that attacks Apple’s technology offering.

Apparently, Verizon just completed reading “How To Win Friends And Influence People”. I’m most interested to how Apple responds to this ad. I’m sure it’s going to raise some hackles, but Apple really has no one to blame but themselves. These ARE valid, persistent limitations of the platform. People have been pointing them out and complaining about them since the first release.

For the most part, Apple’s response has been “meh”. The only time, for example, they put any effort into addressing complaints of developers in regard to the AppStore was when the FTC investigated their rejection of the Google Voice app. Complaints from customers and developers got no results.

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Release date has come, TomTom Car Kit for iPhone is available. The Car Kit is here at a price of 99.99€. When opening the box we will find the dock (car kit), a USB car charger, two adhesive discs for the dashboard and documentation. The set includes a GPS receiver, so surely when used with an iPhone 2G or EDGE, get it to function as GPS navigator.

The main features are:

  *  Secure Docking
  * Enhanced GPS performance
  * Clear voice instructions
  * Hands-free calling
  * Charges iPhone while driving
  * Rotates for optimal positioning
  * Line out for music playback

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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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Chillingo, the iPhone gaming company, poked us with some weekend news, about 3 of their game titles.

First they want you to know that their just released, sporting / fighting title called Touch KO is getting an update to version V1.1 soon. What is new in this already good game?

• V1.1 features A new hard mode has been added with steeper difficulty ramp and new AI
• You can pause the game by tapping the timer and tap the screen to skip slow-mo replays
• Positional audio bug for users wearing headphones has been fixed
• Now combos are more powerful
• And, bug that causes southpaw players to crash when knocked out has been fixed

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XENDEX, a leading European mobile games developer, and I-play, Oberon Media´s publishing division and the world´s leading multi-platform casual games publisher, today announced the launch of Red Bull X-Fighters for iPhone and iPod Touch. The Red Bull X-Fighters freestyle motocross (FMX) series has established itself as the world´s leading FMX event which sees the best riders of the world pull off jaw-dropping tricks at heights of up to 40ft in the air.

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iPhone 3GS owners out there love their phones. But do you love it enough to attach it to the front of your car and take it for a spin? This is exactly what Josh Fahrner did with his iPhone 3GS! The only thing securing the iPhone 3GS to his front grille was some packing tape and some wire cables.

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