Google Nav coming to other platforms inc iPhone
Date: Friday, April 23 @ 15:23:08 UTC
Topic:
 News from Google this morning confirming plans to roll out their Google Maps Navigation app to other platforms including iPhone. No timescale has been given though.
The widely held belief amongst many sites reporting this is that manufacturers such as TomTom, Navigon etc will have cause to fear this announcement but is this really the case?
In the US, off-board navigation is a much more widely accepted option than it is here in Europe. Google Nav is an off-board solution with map data stored on Google servers and delivered to the handset as required. Given Google's business it is hard to see them ever considering a solution that has map data on-board a device instead.
Off-board solutions work reasonably well when you have a strong signal and a data plan with inclusive data but it works much less well when the signal is poor, the data is not bundled or where you are roaming.
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