Best Blackberry Sat-Nav Apps

Text: Jamie Fretwell Date: May 2011

WisePilot
Rating: ★★★★
Price: £59.95 (Europe)
Contact: www.wisepilot.com
Our favourite Blackberry app. WisePilot is free for five days, then you choose what to pay. Either buy European maps forever, for £59.95, or use them for £1.50 a day. The display is clear and the menus logically laid out – it’s similar to CoPilot in this respect. We loved the five-second reroute time, plus there’s social networking and a journey report. It’s accurate, finding all our destinations, and you can pay for traffic, junction view, speed limits and safety camera info separately.

UbiNav

Price: £33.15 (UK)

Contact: www.ubinav.com

Navigation on UbiNav is fast, and there’s even a feature to let your friends know where you are through social networking site Facebook. It’s a shame this app is exclusive to Blackberry, as the maps and menus are really easy to use. On the road, it found our position fast, routed us accurately and was quick to correct us when we took a wrong turn. Trouble is, there’s no option to get traffic info, so it can’t match the WisePilot.

TrafficMaster Companion

Rating: ★★★
Price: £33.15

Contact: www.trafficmaster.co.uk

If you like simplicity, you’ll love TrafficMaster. Companion is also available on the iPhone, but instead of maps, you get an arrow and a countdown to your next turn. We love how well the traffic data is integrated, and calling up the operator to get route info is great. Yet each call lasts around a minute, and you have to add costly subscription fees. Still, rerouting is quick, taking a mere 10 seconds.

Telmap Mobile Navigator 4.5

Rating: ★★
Price: £41.45

Contact: www.telmap.com
The latest downloadable app from Telmap, which now creates branded software for Vodafone, Orange and O2. It feels a bit old, and at £41.45, is expensive for what you get. There are no extra features such as social networking or traffic info, plus finding POIs proved tricky. Mobile Navigator took ages to find our position, and rerouting was slow, at 40 seconds – you could easily have got lost in this time.

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