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gman
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 Posted - 27 oct. 2010 : 16:58:36
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[From Engagdet]
Navigon MobileNavigator finally hits American Androids - includes augmented reality, POI view
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We got our first taste of Navigon's MobileNavigator for Android way back at CES last January, and since then Googlephone users across Europe have been merrily navigating around using the thing. Finally, Americans get our chance, with Navigon announcing a North American release. This version includes maps of the good 'ol US of A, downloaded to the storage card (1.5GB worth) to enable full offline navigation, though you'll need a connection to get traffic updates. There's an improved Reality View Pro mode, which shows "photo realistic 3D views" of street signs and, the cream of this frothy app, a new Reality Scanner mode. This Layar-like view overlays nav and POI information over a real-time stream of the world from the phone's camera, letting you spot that Stuckey's from afar. The app hits the Android Market today for $39, but that's one of those limited time deals. After two weeks it jumps up to $59, so don't be slow with the clicking.
Gallery: >> link <<- $39.66 in the Market
Product page on the Navigon website : http://www.navigon.com/portal/us/produkte/navigationssoftware/mobile-navigator-android.html [ed]
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Motorola Droid: Google Maps Navigation, CoPilot Live USA |
Edited by - gman on 10 nov. 2010 19:44:33
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gpspassion
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UncleMike
USA
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Posted - 31 oct. 2010 : 01:30:42
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| I'm quite surprised that at the $40 (US) price point they already have 500-1000 downloads from the market. I'll be interested to see how well they do in comparison to NDrive at $20 (US maps) and Copilot Live USA ($5). |
Copilot Live USA v8 for Android / TomTom Go 740 LIVE |
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Jim1348
USA
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Posted - 31 oct. 2010 : 05:42:17
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| I look forward to reading reviews and comparisons of the various applications |
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toronado455
70 Posts |
Posted - 03 nov. 2010 : 08:29:42
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| Highest res supported is 854x480, so looks like no Galaxy Tab support for this. |
LG Optimus V BACKside ROM (CM7) |
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gman
USA
320 Posts |
Posted - 10 nov. 2010 : 19:42:12
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[ed]The app would likely still function just fine on the Tab. Because of the Tab's higher rez, it will either have black bars around the app, or the app might be 'stretched' to fill the screen, which could make some of the graphics or menus look a little odd.
Some reviews :
- http://www.tested.com/news/android-market-roundup-inspire-phone-envy-with-these-apps/1243/
- http://www.androidtapp.com/navigon-mobilenavigator-usa/
Review from Tested.com
http://www.tested.com/news/android-market-roundup-inspire-phone-envy-with-these-apps/1243/
"Navigon
The existence of Google's free navigation solution on Android may have scared away some GPS veterans, but now one has finally stepped in. Navigon's new Android app works a bit differently than the free Google Navigation app, and we took it for a test drive to see what it can offer. The first thing to be aware of is that it's pricey, clocking in at about $40. Second, you will have to download the maps before using the app, and it's only for some regions. This will require about 1.5GB of SD card space, and a solid Wi-Fi connection.
When you launch the app, you get a screen where you can enter an address, search for a point of interest, view the map, or have the app navigate to your home address. We really like this last feature; it's handy when you just need to get underway and don't want to bother with entering your home address every time. Down at the bottom you have a shortcut to your favorites, recent routes, and contacts. All these are nice touches, but the contacts view could use some work. It brings up your full contact list so you can navigate to any addresses therein. The problem being that this is, as we said, the full contacts list. That means phone, Facebook, Twitter, all of it. When you choose a destination, the My Routes feature will offer three different options to choose from.
The navigation interface is laid out well, but not the most attractive. This is somewhere Google has Navigon beaten. Google Maps is pulling really high quality maps while you're driving. The Navigon maps are accurate, but have less detail. Not surprising considering you have all of the US on your SD card. On the plus side, you don't need a data connection like with Google Navigation. It doesn't show street names as you drive, which is a little strange. Although, it gives you plenty of warning when you need to turn and the directions are right on time. This is something we've always felt was off with Google's option: the prompts sometimes feel too late.
As you drive, you will see some thoughtful features common to standalone GPS units, but absent from Google Nav. For instance, If speed limit data is available for your route, it will be shown in the upper right corner. As you approach intersections, you will get lane assist on the lower right to help you get in the correct lane. This can be a real life saver on busy urban streets. The lower left corner is dedicated to alerting you to the distance to, and direction of, the next turn. The top bar will show your arrival time, and distance to destination. A tap will make it show your speed. The bottom bar will show either your current street, or the name of the one you will turn onto next, your call.
In the options you get the familiar slate of GPS choice. You can change how night mode works, turn on traffic avoidances (uses internet connection), tweak speed limit warnings, and turn on avoidances. A word about the last two. Speed limit warnings are awesome. You can choose the threshold at which the app will alert you when you're going too fast. If you want to avoid highways or toll roads, Navigon can do it.
Navigon was a totally capable navigation app in out testing. It was accurate, full featured, and recalculated routes quickly. We were also able to leave the app, then come back to our route in progress. But it could use some UI polish, and the price is high. In addition to the 1.5GB of SD space, you will need about 30MB of internal storage. If you do all your navigating in urban areas, Google Navigation should be fine. But if you need offline maps, Navigon is a fine choice. " |
Motorola Droid: Google Maps Navigation, CoPilot Live USA |
Edited by - gman on 10 nov. 2010 19:42:52 |
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T_Squared
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Posted - 23 nov. 2010 : 23:13:33
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I had high hopes for Navigon. My hope was that it would fill the void for decent offline personal navigation with good map data for Android. After a few days of giving Navigon a fair shake at showing me what it could do, I'd have to say that my hopes have been dashed. Outside of simply following an active route in the main map/navigation screen, Navigon proves to be an utterly frustrating app to use. In many ways this software should be considered early beta. I could give a full review, but I just don't have the time right now. My advice for now is to save your money and pass on this app until it shows some serious improvement.
I offer the above brief opinion based on years of experience using various personal navigation devices and software. I've recently purchased a Droid X and I've been looking for a suitable offline navigation app for it. The personal navigation software/hardware that I'm trying to replace with my Droid X is Garmin Mobile XT running on a Window Mobile device. So, Garmin Mobile XT would probably be the standard that I'm measuring others against. Other devices and software that I've used over time - Garmin nuvi's, IQue3600, and various Palm and Windows Mobile software apps, like Mapopolis for example. Of them all, I would currently put Navigon's app near the bottom of the pile.
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gpspassion
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Posted - 24 nov. 2010 : 00:24:23
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I have yet to try Navigon on Android but based on my experience with Navigon on WM, PNDs, the iPhone and iPad, I've found it to be one of the better GPS assisted navigation apps out there with its pros and cons (no POI importing being one and the repeated use of the word "T-Junction" being another) as they all do, I would not have a problem using the iPhone version as my sole navigation aide if I had too for instance.
No need for a full review, but do list out some of the problems you found so that your opinion can be placed into perspective and others can pitch in. |
Discounts and Assistance/Réductions et Assistance (Club GpsPasSion) / Où commencer? |
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larryc
USA
224 Posts |
Posted - 20 déc. 2010 : 04:22:02
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Navigon for Android no longer seems to be in the Android market (at least, I can't find it.)
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Mio Moov 500 / Google Nav Android / Copilot 8 Android |
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jeffcarp94
USA
117 Posts |
Posted - 20 déc. 2010 : 16:17:46
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For me the biggest problems are just a complete lack of user friendliness. Let's start with the 30 second boot time. This is on a device with a 1 ghz processor. Then on top of that they add a lawyer screen that you have to acknowledge. There are no street names on the 3d maps. You can not pan the map. There's no pinch zoom of the map. Even though you can do voice entry you must respond to specific prompts. You can't speak free flow like you can with google navigation. There is no visual display of the traffic conditions on the map at all.
I really wanted to like this app. Google navigation is not without its problems. But the usability of Navigon is far inferior to google navigation IMO. |
Nav experience: Garmin SP III, SP 2710, SP 2730, Garmin i5, Garmin c330, Garmin 760, Garmin 885T, Dash Navigation, TeleNav for Sprint, TomTom 740 Live, CoPilot Live v8, Navigon for Android, Navigon for iPad, Google Navigation, Waze, Garmin Nuvi 3490LMT, Garmin 3590LMT, TomTom for Android, Rand McNally 7725LM |
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dlwgps
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Posted - 27 mai 2011 : 05:05:43
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Navigon has been updated a couple times. It boots quicker, but does have the lawyer screen at the start. It now shows street names in the 3D map. It does show traffic on the display now. They have also added a weather screen between selecting a destination and going into navigation mode. You can zoom in and out. It puts an AUTO button on the screen to return zoom to automatic control. I have not tried voice control. I did not know it had it. I am really impressed with the ETA.
I normally have a 25 minute drive to and from work. Of course that was before they started construction on I-70. I get to work or home plus or minus 2 or 3 minutes from the ETA when I first start navigation. I thought it had went nuts one day. Navigon told me it would be 1:00 am before I got home from work. Come to find out there was a fatality on I-70, I-70 had been closed and traffic as a complete mess. It took most people hours to get home. I had to use backroads I have known about for years that no GPS would put you on to get home in 55 minutes. Thank goodness Navigon warned me, because I would have been in trouble if I had not started take alternate routes early.
I used Navigon on Windows Mobile. My only complaint is I can not tweak the display like I could in WinMo. I would like the speed I am traveling displayed larger and not have to chose beteeen it and my ETA. |
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dahauss
USA
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Posted - 01 juil. 2011 : 20:27:54
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| will navigon ever allow custom POI and custom POI alerts? I would love to be able to be alerted to TOLLS, REST STOPS etc... |
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gpspassion
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Posted - 01 juil. 2011 : 23:35:17
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| In the early days of GPS software editors were scrambing to offer that very feature to push their products...these days they make less money on the software/devices so they try to sell their or rebranded content. Navigon are now reselling OSM POIs for instance (not or Android though I think). Little incentive for them to let users add their own POIs...until one of them starts doing it to gain an edge. Let's see who starts that trend! |
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motif1
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Posted - 31 août 2011 : 22:59:13
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NAVIGON ON ANDROID SHOCKER (AND SOLUTION)!
Here is a little tidbit I found out while on vacation. I already had Navigon US. I bought EU region in the summer sale. Of course I thought I could install EU on the same phone as US. Every other GPS program I have ever used works this way (Copilot you change maps inside the app, Sygic you have a different app for different region on the same phone).
But no, Navigon of the Great Reviews WILL NOT DO THIS! What? You install a map region, it works. You install the second map region, now the second one works, but the first one won't start anymore, it just goes to the Download Maps screen as if the maps were never there (which in fact they still are, on the SD card).
I tried installing in either order, always the same result. I contacted Navigon support, and they confirmed:
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Regarding your e-mail, we want to inform you that our mobile software for Android creates the folder "Maps" when you are downloading a version. You can not use both versions in the same time on your phone, because the maps are always changed, depending on what version you are downloading.
They didn't acknowledge that their program can't do what all the others do routinely, but at least they didn't try to call it a feature!
To explain, what happens is that the app installation creates directories on the SD card. SD/Navigon/map gets map files, poi gets POIs, data gets other stuff, and all of this content is region-specific. When you install a second region and download the maps, it all gets dumped into the same directory, and the program can't distinguish between the map region files.
Also, the config file SD/Navigon/version.xml is overwritten by the second region installed, with parametres for the last-installed region.
Here is what I did to work around. It's dumb and not elegant, I don't know if there could be a better programming hack, but there is no evident thread at xda-developers to post this to the whiz kids, or I would have. Maybe someone here has a better idea.
MY DUMB SOLUTION: You just have to install one region app first, say US, and download its maps and data. Then use a file manager (e.g., Astro) to change the name of the directory sd/Navigon to something else, say US_Navigon, this is enough to prevent the Navigon app from seeing any of the contained data. Now install the second region, say EU, and download maps & data, this will create a fresh sd/Navigon directory, which now contains the second region data. Now you can use the second region Navigon app. When you want to use the first region app again, you have to rename second (current) region to something else, say sd/EU_Navigon, and rename the other (first) from US_Navigon back to plain sd/Navigon. Now you can use Navigon US, but not Navigon EU. I tested this, it works. It's slightly dangerous in the sense that if you launch the wrong (for the maps in Navigon/map) region app by mistake, I think that is enough to overwrite version.xml, and now neither region will work (you have for example the US version.xml but EU maps in sd/Navigon). So better keep cached copies of the config file named US_version.xml and EU_version.xml somewhere, so in the event of the above error you can replace overwritten version.xml with the correct one corresponding to the maps in sd/Navigon.
I couldn't believe Navigon would do something this amateurish. Maybe the iPhone one works differently, I don't have that.
Did anybody else try to install more than one Navigon region on Android, and if so what happened?
[PS
Another thing in Android Navigon, you can't purchase the Michelin Red and Green Guide content as you can in iPhone. I am willing to pay for the content, and wanted to, but since you can't, it turns out there is another way. And one last thing, at least in France, the Destination screen (which shows the weather and the quick POIs) also has advertising on it! I get the Grand Frais marché and other things as little POI-looking icons, if you push them they go to a "start navigation" button. If you disable data connection you don't get them, so they are apparently being served live, which is worse because it means there is not a file in POIs that can be deleted. I'm surprised that nobody else has complained about this.] |
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gpspassion
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ve7mdt
Canada
170 Posts |
Posted - 05 mars 2012 : 08:10:27
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| Various friends owning various Android tablets have varied success with various versions of Navigon (North America). I wish it could be as simple as the one on iOS (but then on iOS I prefer TomTom). When would TomTom come to Android? For now, Navigon still best on Android, and luckily works on my LG G2x. But sometimes I had to toggle the Location, or even reboot. |
iPad WiFi w/ RoqyBT to use BT GPSr, LG Optimus G2x, BenQ S6, Samsung Q1, Toshiba e830, Toshiba e805, HTC Advantage X7501, Nextar MN2707 running P7, Magellan Springboard GPS on Visor 2MB, Haicom HI-303III + BT slipper, Holux GPSlim236, eTrex yellow
TomTom 1.9 for iOS, Navigon 2.0 for iOS, Navigon for Android, Garmin Mobile XT, Delorme Street Atlas 2009, Streets & Trips 2010, MapPoint 2010, APRSIS/CE, APRSIS/32, APRSDroid |
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