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Mar 25 2010

TiPb Apps 6.3: AllSport for iPhone (CTIA 2010)

Some of us recently realized there’s a whole world out there, and perhaps it’d be a good idea to visit it once in a while, and an even better idea to (gulp) exercise in it.

And [...]


Mar 13 2010

TomTom updated to 1.3 now with Google Local Search!

The AT&T Navigator app and TomTom are my two favorite GPS solutions; TomTom just took the lead with this most recent update.

One of the benefits of the AT&T Navigator app was the ability to search [...]


Feb 10 2010

AT&T Navigator for iPhone Updated to v1.5i

Yesterday Navigon MobileNavigator received a pretty nice update, today Telenav released a update of their own for AT&T Navigator that includes some very nice new features. They are as follows:

Shake-to-Go(tm): Users can now shake their [...]


Feb 5 2010

Apple: No Location-based Ads for Non Location-based Apps — Controversy de Jour?

Apple’s iPhone Developer News feed has posted a note saying developers should enhance their App Store apps with Core Location… but not if they just want to use it to serve up location-based ads. Of [...]


Nov 20 2009

Magellan GPS Car Kit for iPhone/iPod touch Coming Soon

Magellan recently announced they are releasing a GPS car kit of their own and it already has hit the FCC. Like the much anticipated TomTom car kit, the Magellan will give the iPod touch and [...]


Nov 19 2009

TomTom Updates App to Include 1st Gen iPhone and iPod touch GPS Support

TomTom has released a rather significant update to their $99 iPhone Turn-by-Turn GPS application [iTunes Link]. It seems as if they had second thoughts about omitting first generation iPhone 2G (and iPod touches) support [...]


Sep 24 2009

Quick App Update: Sygic Mobile Maps for iPhone

Are you still on the hunt for the right GPS navigation application? Sygic Mobile Maps [$59.00 - US iTunes Link] has just gotten a much needed update and we are happy to report is has [...]


Sep 4 2009

TomTom’s iPhone Car Kit Delayed

Well it’s official, TomTom’s much anticipated iPhone car kit accessory will not make it out this summer like the company initially had planned. Rather, it has been delayed until October according to their website’s FAQ [...]


Aug 31 2009

MobileMe’s “Find My iPhone” Serving Justice

A robbery victim has taken advantage of his MobileMe service and put it to good use. A Pittsburgh man, who’s name has been withheld, told police he was forced to turn over his wallet, his [...]


Aug 31 2009

TomTom’s Car Kit Gets FCC Approval

While the wait for TomTom’s iPhone software to hit the App Store has come and gone, most of you are still eagerly awaiting the arrival of TomTom’s iPhone car kit, first shown off at WWDC [...]


Aug 22 2009

TomTom Promo Video Shows Off Car Kit

TomTom insists on teasing us all with the above video yet there is still no mention of pricing or availability. As you can see, this car kit brings a lot more to the table than [...]


Aug 19 2009

From the Forums: Push Apps, GPS Apps, Native iPhone Apps/Features, Data Usage

Welcome to From the Forums. If you are curious as to what all of the hot topics are on the TiPb forums, this is the place to be. In order to create any new threads [...]


Aug 17 2009

TomTom Car Kit Compatible With iPod Touch and Other GPS Apps

As you might have heard, TomTom’s GPS application hit the App Store late yesterday. The question still remained regarding the much anticipated TomTom car kit and if it would be compatible with the iPod Touch [...]


Aug 17 2009

Apps for Less: Sygic Mobile Maps US - Turn-By-Turn Voice Guided GPS Navigation

With news of TomTom hitting Apple’s App Store it’s time to start looking out for great deals from the other GPS apps currently available. Today we were notified that one of the most feature-filled GPS [...]


Mar 17 2009

Turn by Turn Apps Coming to iPhone 3.0 App Store

As we reported earlier today (before the Apple event, even), the iPhone 3.0 update will allow real, turn-by-turn directions on the iPhone. It looks like Apple isn’t bothering with enmeshing themselves in the confusing [...]


Mar 17 2009

Sygic “Confirms” First Turn-by-Turn App to Enter App Store?

Dieter gave us our first eyes-on look at Sygic’s Turn-by-Turn GPS solution for the iPhone 3G, but we wondered if Apple — whose iPhone SDK specifically forbid providing such navigation — would ever allow it.

Seems [...]


Feb 23 2009

Phone different Podcast Episode 34

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Rene and Chad fill in for Dieter and Mike this week, covering Mobile World Congress, the latest with [...]


Feb 18 2009

Eyes On: Sygic Turn By Turn GPS App for iPhone

There you see it, folks, a real live native iPhone app that provides turn-by-turn GPS directions with voice prompts, points of interest, support for multiple countries, maps stored in-memory instead of streamed from the internet, [...]


Feb 13 2009

TeleNav Makes Turn-by-Turn Navigation for Android G1 — Where’s the iPhone App?!

Our sibling site, Android Central, has posted up a story about TeleNav making a turn-by-turn GPS navigation app for Google’s Android G1:

The TeleNav software will include full color 3D graphics, speech recognition, one-click [...]


Feb 12 2009

How-To: Find Your Car with iPhone 3G

Have you ever experienced the frustration of parking your car in a massive parking lot or parking garage and then almost panicked when you couldn’t find it? If you haven’t, well, good for you. Your [...]