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Is the navigation good enough?
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Has anyone tried to use it as their car navigator/gps? Is it good enough to use for that purpose? Does it "ding" or something as you are approaching a turn? (I know it doesn't have voice navigation, but I'm hoping it's still good enough for, say, finding your way to work when your usual route is closed, and the like.)
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Join Date: Oct 1999
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I would only use it if I were the passenger and guiding the driver. it doesn't have audio turn by turn. I could see it being great for walking around town though. For driving, I'm sticking with my garmin for now. Plus, GPS eats up the battery life like no tomorrow and you can't even keep the new 3G's charged in many cars right now ( see my other post on not being able to be charged in some 3rd party accessories)
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2009 MacMini 2.0 C2D 4GB (3,1) - Needs update!
11" MBA (2010 1.6GHz C2D)
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My Griffin auto charger works fine for the new phone as it did for the old one.
It's not that great for pure GPS (I still say Tom Tom is coming out for a module/software that you'll be able to plug into while on the road for turn-by-turn directions) though.
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http://gizmodo.com/5024018/telenav-c...navigation-app
Though it's not among the 522 awesome apps launching today, TeleNav will soon fill a pretty big hole by providing a turn-by-turn in-car GPS navigator app for the iPhone 3G, as we speculated. TeleNav confirmed to us today that its app will include full-color 3D moving maps and the turn-by-turn voice guidance and traffic-aware routing the iPhone Maps program itself is missing. TeleNav already makes decent GPS nav software for Sprint and AT&T phones, way better than Verizon's VZ Navigator. No word on price, but the good news is, it'd have to be available through the App Store, not as a subscription thing from AT&T. [TeleNav]
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Join Date: Apr 2002
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I'm still wondering how they're getting by the SDK restrictions... Are they a big enough name that they can demand it from Apple?
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Yeah, yeah I know about the telenav thing, but that still vaporware, and, if it ever does happen, it will almost certainly be subscription-based, and I'm not willing to go that route. I'm was asking about the iphone's built-in navigation - is it good enough for car use or not?
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