HI LIst, My husband and I were so excited to read about Navigon. We've been searching for accessibility options so that we could have GPS on our IPhones. Could folks comment in greater detail about the accessibility of Navigon with voice over (i.e. bugs or things that work particularly smoothly)?
I would also be curious to hear about some of your experiences using the Maps and the Compass apps. I have used Maps to find walking directions and public transit directions, but I have never found that Maps gives turn by turn navigation in pedestrian mode as a program like Navigon or tomTom would do. I really have not done much with the compass. We were originally interested in the TomTom app, but after some research, we have discovered that this app is only intended for use by people driving cars. Any advice and feedback you can give will be extremely helpful as we would like to purchase a GPS system for our phones in the near future. Best, Amber On Jan 21, 2010, at 4:18 PM, Esther wrote: > Hi all, > > The latest version of "AroundMe" for the iPhone/iPod Touch features > integration with Navigon's MobileNavigator GPS app for points of interest. > As with the "Where To? - GPS points of interest" app integration with > Navigon, the routing application can either be Maps or Navigon > MobileNavigator. > > Choose a category or your "Favorites" and double tap to bring up a list view. > Select your point of interest and double tap. Find your selection on the map > area of the Info page and double tap the "More info" button. In the current > version of "AroundMe" double tapping the "Show Route" button allows you to > select the routing application as either "Maps" or "Navigon MobileNavigator" > if you have this app on your iPhone or iPod Touch. Double tapping the > "Navigon MobileNavigator" button opens the Navigon GPS app at the start page, > then takes you to the point of interest you selected. Double tap the "More" > button to (optionally) save this location as a Favorite and to choose the > "Route Profile" (that allows you to set your speed profile to "car", > "bicycle", or "pedestrian", etc., specify type of route, allow or disallow > highways, residents only streets, etc.). When you're done double tap the > "Back" button in the upper left corner to return to the point of interest. > Double tap the "Start Navigation" button in the top right corner to start > navigating. > > Earlier versions of Navigon's MobileNavigator limited your ability to use > points of interests to what was already in Navigon's app -- so if you wanted > the flexibility of searching with the various category filter options of > AroundMe you'd have to first use that app and save a point of interest to > your contacts so that when you used MobileNavigator you could access it > through your contacts. The current version of MobileNavigator is supposed to > offer better points of interest support both through the "Search for POI" > button in the app and through it's integration with other apps like AroundMe > and Where To? and through support for Google searches. > > I haven't used Navigon very much (I'm still accessing this from an iPod Touch > without a GPS add-on), so I'm much more familiar with using AroundMe (got > this free app among my earliest downloads) and Maps than Navigon or Where To? > for points of interest. I didn't find a settings entry for AroundMe that > lets me make Navigon's MobileNavigator the default routing app choice. Those > of you who use Where To? should note Geoff's nice post noting this settings > option. > > I'd be interested in hearing more comments about differences in the way > points of interest are identified or laid out under categories in these apps. > For example, Where To? breaks down restaurants by kind of cuisine, and > locates "Apple Stores" under "Shopping" that include authorized dealers that > aren't just Apple retail locations (such as AroundMe uses). > > AroundMe (free) by TweakerSoft: > http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/aroundme/id290051590?mt=8 > > HTH > > Cheers, > > Esther > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
