Just completed a less-than-direct drive from Florida to Massachusetts, and used Navigon East as my only navigation aid during the drive. First as a summary, the $30 App performed very well, providing reliable guidance and clear spoken instructions at all times, timely for exits and without ever experiencing GPS issues on my iPad 2. However, [...]
We spent this weekend in the White Mountains region of New Hampshire, and AT&T basically has zero coverage there – just a little service in some towns, but nothing at all in many areas. So navigating with MotionX GPS Drive HD was challenging, at the least … The App knew exactly where we were, thanks [...]
Recently I purchased and reviewed MotionX GPS Drive HD, concluding that it was excellent. Paying $3 for the App is quite preferable to paying $15-$50+ for one of the “true” navigation Apps from Navigon, TomTom, etc; but there’s one significant downside to the MotionX App – it does not include maps, instead they are downloaded [...]
There’s a few traffic Apps around, both free and paid for; a few weeks ago I tried Beat The Traffic, but I didn’t much like it: The problem is that Beat The Traffic shows road speed in red/yellow/green, so when you look at the map above, traffic looks bad – only a little green, lots [...]
After trying Google Maps on the way to work on my iPad yesterday, I looked around for any other iPad ready navigation Apps, and discovered there aren’t very many. But I did find MotionX GPS Drive HD (from MotionX), and at the price of just $2.99 I decided to try it – and wow am [...]
