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Best Android Sat-Nav Apps

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Best Android Sat-Nav Apps

Text: Jamie Fretwell Date: May 2011

Google Maps Navigation
Rating: ★★★
Price: Free
Contact: www.gogle.com/mobile/navigation
Search engine giant Google has one of the best desktop mapping packages, and Maps Navigation – a free app exclusive to the Android operating system – aims to carry that success over to your mobile. Routing is accurate, and you can get a bird’s eye view of an area with satellite mode, or activate Google’s excellent Street View service to see images of your surroundings on your phone. But it’s slow.

Sygic Aura
Rating: ★★★★
Price: £12.99
Contact: http://aura.sygic.com
You can use Aura for free for seven days, after which time it’s £13 – which is still great value. It’s packed with features, including 3D buildings, plus really clear and bright mapping. Menus are slick and simple to use, too. Rerouting took six seconds when we made a wrong turn, and unlike some apps, there are no extra fees for spoken street names. It’s also available on iPhone and Nokia, and only lost out to CoPilot as there’s no traffic or in-app music control.

 

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2 Comments

Blabheinn

I have been using Google Maps Navigation on my Samsung Galaxy S since June last year and have found it to be excellent. My one niggle is that you lose the navigation if you lose your mobile signal. Before getting the Samsung I had a Nokia and used the Ovi system but although it was good the Google one is superior.

By Hoagy56 on 26 May, 2011, 9:00am

Sygic looks good, CoPilot is junk

CoPilot on the HTC Desire HD is a disaster. You keep have to re-install it every 2 weeks, when you turn it on you have go through configure and licence accept every time. The single map package for Europe is still not available and when you download the several maps you need, if one sticks because their server is too busy (it usually is) and restarts, it will never load another map. Yet another re-install. When it works it is quite good, but, it doesn't work.

All their tech support ever say is "it's your GPS chips" (no it's not, Google maps works), "it's your device" (no it's not, everything else works), "it's your SD card" (no it's not I did a full test on it), "it's your internet connection" (no it's not, it's a monitored industrial connection with no contention running at a fraction of capacity in the day). Basically their support exists only to deny that they should give you your money back.

By Harry_Davidson on 27 January, 2012, 3:22pm

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