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The first time I tried it out was on a trip to the grocery store just to see how it worked. It told to make a left from Belmont onto Ashland in Chicago. The only problem? There's a "no left turn" sign at that intersection. Oops.
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Again, it's a good use of $35 if, like me, you rarely find yourself in need of a GPS device. It will be nice for when I travel out of the area for work, which isn't all that often.
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One thing, you say that the keyboard is qwerty, but if you download the update, they fixed that problem. The maps are still a wee bit out of date though.
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I use navigon and think its much better than a standalone gps IMO.
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Thank you for reviewing this second tier of nav apps. I am currently debating which to get (and if I really need it). Having built in nav in my current daily car makes the iphone version for vacations and business trip rentals, but after reading this I know Navigon will be the one.
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It was awful. The directions were frequently confusing, we couldn't get it to give us the name of the street on which we were to turn (though it always tells you what road you are _curently_ on), so there was a ton of "oops, i think we just passed it" especially with the GPS lag that we experienced in big cities such as san francisco and seattle.
Would not recommend.
Be Seeing You,
Fallorn
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I was actually debating getting Navigon today for the $90 (plus NY Tax). My question is, cost being a significant factor, would you go with an app or dedicated device?
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So I guess if you're asking about reliability of dedicated device vs. app on iPhone 3GS, I gotta say, in real-world use, it's surprisingly a toss-up.
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I guess if you truly believe you will still be using an iPhone 3 years from now then that's another story.
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I was in your situation. I didn't want to spend a huge amount of money, even though I know GPS apps are a great deal, and thought about going for a cheap-o app like one of these. After trying out Navigon and TomTom I went with Navigon. It's an excellent app and they've already shows their commitment to it.
I don't use a GPS a whole lot, probably a dozen times a month, and I'm definitely not regretting my purchase. It was money well spent and now I don't know how I lived without it.
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Gotta look and be patient.
But I do agree, I wouldn't spend my money on anything but a Garmin. I have this huuuge bias for them although I think Navigon is genius for spending a lot of time and effort to come up with a really nice looking and reasonably priced software that according to you guys' reviews also works very well.
As I have put it before, it is a brilliant move to make just software and let apple take care of the hardware that is now accessible to well over 25M people and probably close to 50M before 2011. I give madddd props to Navigon.
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