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by Andrew Martonik
Mar 21, 2013
Trapster has been around for many years now, and although it has gone through a lot of changes since 2010 none may be as important as the move today to version 4.0. The newest version of Trapster&nb...
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by Alex Dobie
Dec 05, 2012
When TomTom for Android first appeared a couple of months back, support was limited to a few devices with WVGA displays, a move which excluded many of the most popular handsets. Today the app h...
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by Alex Dobie
Nov 29, 2012
Many countries have been enjoying Google Maps' free turn-by-turn navigation feature for a couple of years, but so far Mexico's been left out of the fun. That changes today with the launch of...
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by Simon Sage
Oct 31, 2012
The Waze navigation app has recently been updated with a whole bunch of new social features, ranging from seeing the ETA of your friends, location sharing, pick-up requests, and lots more. Here'...
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by Simon Sage
Oct 23, 2012
The CoPilot Live GPS navigation app has been recently updated with a whole bunch of new features. High on the list is the replacement of Bing with Google search, and some deeper dig...
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by Alex Dobie
Oct 04, 2012
Popular dedicated navigation software arrives on Android, but many devices are incompatible
TomTom has launched its popular navigation service for Android on Google Play, bringing stand-alone of...
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by Simon Sage
Sep 17, 2012
Today Telenav launched Scout, their newest GPS navigation app. It has the usual plethora of live traffic conditions, points of interest, and estimated times of arrival for various routes. Voice-acti...
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by Simon Sage
Aug 14, 2012
If you’re planning to squeeze in one more roadtrip before the summer dwindles out, you might be shopping around for GPS navigation apps. Google’s own Navigation for Android may do the tr...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jun 20, 2012
Waze has taken the wraps off the latest version of their über-popular social navigation app, and there's some pretty cool new features thrown into the mix. For starters, y...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jun 06, 2012
Google today at a small event in San Francisco announced that it's taking Google Maps offline. That's right, no more will you be beholden to your data connection. Or if traveling abroad (or ...
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by Alex Dobie
Mar 28, 2012
Google continues to add features to its Maps service for mobile, and the latest version of Google Maps for Android adds in a couple of small changes which may make it easier to get around. First up,...
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by Alex Dobie
Mar 09, 2012
Google Maps for Android has received a minor update today, bringing it up to version 6.4.0. The new version introduces some minor changes to Google Maps Navigation on ICS devices. Gone is the large,...
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by Sam Abuelsamid
Mar 01, 2012
The world of consumer electronics is not for the faint of heart. A company comes up with a brilliant new product that suddenly gets enormously popular but then before you know it, the next big thing...
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by Jared DiPane
Feb 15, 2012
Google Maps got an update today that improves the battery life if you use Latitude and location history users. In addition to these battery improvements some bug fixes have been implimented in ...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jan 31, 2012
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Waze this morning has taken the wraps off Version 3.0, which brings Foursquare and Yelp integration to the Android navigation app. It's also bringing a new mini...
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by Phil Nickinson
Nov 29, 2011
Tired of looking lost outdoors, staring at Google Maps on your smartphone like a total tourist? Now you can have that same experience indoors with Google Maps 6.0! Google's taking maps inside, o...
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by Jared DiPane
Sep 27, 2011
Today we see an update to Google Maps. The update bumps us up to version 5.10.1, and brings some bug fixes, as well as improved location accuracy for Transit Navigation. So, why wait any longer? Hop...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Sep 16, 2011
A couple weeks back the good folks at Waze got together with us and had a blow-out of a contest. The huge list of prizes -- tablets, and the best smartphones on the planet -- got everyone excite...
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by Chris Parsons
Sep 01, 2011
NAVIGON has announced its new offerings today at IFA in Berlin. While not available as of yet, come this fall NAVIGON will be rolling out the update for free to already existing users of their ...
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by Phil Nickinson
Aug 01, 2011
Whoopsie. As great as Google Maps Version 5.8 may be with its fancy photo uploads, better search results and new Places features, a pretty big bug managed to sneak its way through. Open up Navig...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jul 06, 2011
One of the more interesting (if less publicized) additions to Google Maps 5.7 is the ability to download map data locally to your phone. That's a godsend if you're traveling somewhere...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jul 06, 2011
Google Maps just got a sizable update, with a slew of new features that those of you in major metro areas are going to want to check out. First and foremost is the addition of Transit Navigation.&nbs...
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by Joshua Munoz
Jun 15, 2011
The days are hot, the sun is high in the sky, and that can only mean one thing: summer is right around the corner. But summer also means road trips, vacations, and all sorts of other unwinding from th...
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by Chris Parsons
Jun 14, 2011
Garmin and Navigon have announced today that they have signed an agreement that will have Navigon become a subsidiary of Garmin. With Garmin's experience in the automotive business and Naivgon being ...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jun 14, 2011
Google's smack in the middle of its "Inside Search" event in California, but we're already getting hints at what we're getting for Android. The Google Maps Navigation for Mobile webs...
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by Chris Parsons
May 25, 2011
A new Google Maps update is now available. This version -- v5.5.0 has only three changes listed in the changelog but it brings some stuff that users have been asking for all while addressing some priv...
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by Phil Nickinson
Mar 07, 2011
If you're not the sort of person who explicitly trusts GPS and mobile navigation, move on. For everyone else, Google's just flipped the switch on a cool little feature for Google Maps Navigation (whic...
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by Phil Nickinson
Mar 01, 2011
Here comes your daily HTC Thunderbolt teaser. (Don't look at us like that -- it's tomorrow in Europe already. Or something like that.) VZ Navigator -- Verizon's own maps powered by NAVTEQ -...
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by Chris Kerrigan
Feb 23, 2011
Although most of us love our Google Maps Navigation, it never hurts to have a second option. MapQuest has unveiled their Android app, which brings free turn-by-turn navigation with voice guidanc...
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by Phil Nickinson
Dec 16, 2010
Google Maps 5.0 -- that awesome version Andy Rubin showed off a week or so ago -- has been released to the Android Market. With the latest version of Google Maps, you get that very cool 3D tilt featu...
