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The All Points Blog has a good roundup of iPhone reviews. Needless to say, it's getting a lot of negative review, but it's still somewhat first generation geotagging for the iPhone. Rather than duplicate the summary here, it's best you head on over there to read it.
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MacRumors.com offers a nice summary on the development of turn by turn GPS navigation software for the iPhone. From MR: " MSNBC recently spoke (via MacDailyNews) with several GPS manufacturers about their plans to develop a turn-by-turn GPS solution for the iPhone. While the manufacturers were unable to provide many details about their plans, TomTom reasserted that they do have GPS navigation working on the iPhone and that it works well [...]"
See also some selected previous iPhone stories below.
Technology: Your Phone, Your GPS 1 comment
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APB links to a Forbes article on mobile phones and GPS integration.
From the article: "As more people rely on their phones for mapping and driving directions, global positioning systems are fast becoming killer mobile applications. Spying an opportunity, Apple, Google and Nokia are priming sophisticated location-based services for launch. [...] The winner's circle shows just how serious Google is about mapping. Forty of the 50 finalist applications--including all 10 first-prize winners--integrate Google Maps and Android's other location-based tools. At least two finalists also make use of Android's compass sensor, which adjusts the phone's screen to reflect the direction the user is facing."
See also related stories below.
Application Domains: Recent iPhone Geonews
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Here's the recent iPhone related stories found on the geoblogs.
There's Ogle Earth discussing the state of 3D on the iPhone. Note that the new Microsoft Virtual Earth 6.2 also support the iPhone.
APB provides a link to a map coming from a Wired's survey, tracking iPhone 3G speed and data.
The GEB tells us iPhone's Earthscape has new features.
Spatially Adjusted informs us how to develop interactive mapping on the iPhone without Silverlight, Java or Flash support, with SVG (read the comments too).
Also interesting is the /. discussion about the software development kit shoot out between Android vs iPhone.
See also related stories below.
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very useful
(Score:1)It was pretty cool, and my wife was able to operate it and get it to give her directions without my help. She'd never been able to do that with my Garmin, that's for sure.
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