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Tech News
The Best Navigation Apps
One moment it’s a phone in your hand. The next, it’s a full-fledged turn-by-turn nav unit with an active internet connection. What happened? These apps, is what. iOS GOLD MEDAL: MotionX Drive The first wave of iPhone turn-by-turn apps was expensive and luxurious. The second was cheap and barebones. Since, members of both classes have … Continued
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This Week’s Best iPhone Apps
In this week’s tentatively materialistic app roundup: Deals, scrutinized! Barcodes, scanned! Movies, thriftily rented! Magazines, digitized! Pac-Man, terrifyingly adapted to the road! The iPhone’s camera, made less terrible! Turn-by-turn, discounted! Home screens, organized! And more… https://gizmodo.com/mind-your-wallet-5413982 To view the following gallery as a single page, click here https://gizmodo.com/this-weeks-best-iphone-apps-5414060 The Apps This Weeks’ iPhone News on … Continued
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CoPilot Live GPS App Is $20 During Thanksgiving Special
ALK is dropping the price of CoPilot Live North America from $35 down to $20, starting tomorrow. Since CoPilot was already our favorite non-subscription budget GPS app, this is nice to hear. https://gizmodo.com/iphone-navigation-app-battlemodo-part-ii-the-best-che-5367026 We’re not sure when the sale ends—maybe ALK hasn’t decided—but if you have at least a marginal interest in GPS apps for … Continued
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The App Store Effect: Are iPhone Apps Headed for Oblivion?
It’s uncanny. When known software gets repackaged for iPhones and iPod Touches and passes through the hallowed gates of the App Store, something happens: Almost invariably, it gets cheaper. Waaay cheaper. Good right? Well, not always. The App Store is a strange new place for developers. Veterans and newcomers engage in bareknuckle combat, driving prices … Continued
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Reviews
MotionX GPS Drive Review: Hands Down the Best Value In GPS Apps
People bitching about TomTom’s $100 iPhone navigation app can either a) bitch louder or b) download MotionX GPS Drive by Fullpower. It’s $3 per month or $25 per year, and it works just fine. I am not going to tell you this is the best turn-by-turn road navigation app in the world. The designers made … Continued
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ALK CoPilot GPS Navigation App Gets iPhone Keyboard, Text-To-Speech, Other Improvements
ALK’s CoPilot Live North America navi app just got a big update: Text-to-speech for reading road names, monthly MapSure user-corrected map updates, an improved “walking” mode, improved GPS performance and Contacts integration and above all, a new iPhone keyboard, to replace the sorry-ass homemade keyboard that was in the app before. Normally I wouldn’t post … Continued
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Reviews
iPhone Navigation App Battlemodo, Part II: The Best Cheap GPS App
When I published the turn-by-turn navigation app battlemodo, many readers asked me to evaluate some other popular choices. Because everything I do, I do for you, here are CoPilot, GoKivo and Sygic, a.k.a. the best of the rest: https://gizmodo.com/the-best-iphone-navigation-app-telenav-vs-navigon-vs-5343981 I must make it clear that the reasons for choosing TomTom, Navigon and TeleNav for the … Continued