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Fuzzy Logic Sygic's iPhone GPS magic attracts pricing outrage tragics!
Fuzzy Logic Sygic's iPhone GPS magic attracts pricing outrage tragics! | Sygic's iPhone GPS magic attracts pricing outrage tragics! |
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| by Alex Zaharov-Reutt | |
| Wednesday, 24 June 2009 | |
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It has taken a relaxation by Apple of its GPS restrictions to anyone but Google, after having introduced an inbuilt GPS chip in the iPhone 3G, and the new iPhone OS 3.0 software update to make it happen, but the first app is here and it will undoubtedly be followed by many more to come. Yes, phones such as the N95 and many others have had turn-by-turn GPS for years, but now that the iPhone has it, a leap forward in interface design for GPS software will surely come, paired up as it now is with what is currently and indisputably the world’s best 3.5-inch multi-touch screen and multi-touch mobile OS. Sadly, this isn’t the case with Sygic’s world beating Mobile Maps GPS iPhone app, which has beat the world by porting the interface from its existing range of GPS software for Symbian phones (Nokia, others) and Windows Mobile phones. Porting software means you can release it faster, with the prize in this instance being able to say you were the first in the world to deliver turn-by-turn GPS to the iPhone – even if at this stage maps are limited to Australia, New Zealand and South-East Asia, with the US and Europe still to come. Sygic is promoting the sameness of the user interface as a benefit to those who have already used the Symbian and Windows Mobile phones. However as seen in the reviews for Mobile Maps at the iTunes App Store (app store link), most expected the iPhone’s signature pinch and flick multi touch functionality to be available for Sygic’s app, and were somewhat disappointed to find the app doesn’t, as yet, support those features – but they certainly do expect them to come in future updates. For the most part, the majority of user reviews thus far indicate general happiness with the performance and accuracy of the product, especially now that it is finally available. Bemoaned is the fact that spoken street names through text-to-speech is not yet offered – despite the WhereIs Navigator GPS software Sensis offers on Nokia and Windows Mobile Telstra Next G phones capable of doing so. What about traffic updates? iPhone specific features? More user issues, bouquets. brickbats and more? The promise of some surprises for existing WhereIs Navigator customers over the next few weeks from Sensis? Please continue to page two. |
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