GPS Navigation (Sat Nav)

As some app development teams race to include as many new features in their navigation apps as they can, others are creating complementary features outside those same apps. Perhaps there is no ‘one’ best solution anymore.

The day after Google previewed an all-new Google Maps for iOS and Android (as well as a desktop incarnation), Skobbler has finally brought its popular iOS GPS navigation app to Android....

There’s no shortage of mapping and GPS apps for iOS, and in the fallout from Apple Maps’ disastrous launch last year, the spotlight was shone on a number of mapping alternatives. And Google Maps finally arrived on the scene too....

Mapquest has updated their iPhone app to support iOS 4 with fast switching, and more importantly is now able to run in the background therefore offering iPhone users with another…

The TomToms and Navigons of the world have street-level turn-by-turn navigation down pat, but they're expensive. Skobbler uses OpenStreetMap, the "wikipedia of maps," to deliver its turn-by-turn directions for free, but it's kinda a "get what you pay for" thing. MapQuest offers a turn-by-turn navigation app that'll bark directions at you for free, but the maps are only top-down, not the street-level-view that you've come to know and envy. Skobbler offers that 3D street view, just like the big dogs, for...