Navigon MobileNavigator 1.2

By Jim Lynch on November 6th, 2009

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User Interface & Features
I really like the interface of MobileNavigator, it’s very easy to find your way around. When you first start it up it takes about 20 seconds for the app to load. After it loads you’ll see the main menu screen that has the following four options:

Enter An Address
Search for POI
Take Me Home
Show Map

You’ll also see the following icons at the bottom of the screen:

Main Menu
Favorites
Recents
Contacts
More

Main Menu, Favorites and Recents are all pretty self-explanatory. The Contacts button loads up your Contacts page and you can scroll down to find the person who’s address you’d like to go to using MobileNavigator. I love how MobileNavigator is integrated into my iPhone contacts list. It’s so nice not to have to type in the address information.

Clicking the More icon gives you a screen with two choices:

Route
Options

Clicking Route takes you to a screen that lets you choose a New Route, Last Route or Load Route.

If you choose Options instead of Route you can customize your MobileNavigator experience by changing the Map Display, Route, GPS or General Settings. There’s quite a bit you can do with these controls so be sure to spend a few minutes browsing around so set things up the exact way that you want them.

Here’s a list of some of what you can change in the Options controls:

3D Navigation Map
North At Top
Night Mode
Show Street Names
Categories Shown
Distance Unit
Route Profile
GPS-Info
Speed Limits
Volume
Announce Street Names

MobileNavigator has quite a bit to offer in terms of customization. I’ve tended to generally use the default settings and not had any problems with it being set up that way.

MobileNavigator Main Menu

Text-To-Speech
Note that this version of Navigon MobileNavigator includes text-to-speech, which fixes one of the problems it had when version 1.0 was first released. It will tell you to take a turn onto “Smith Street” or whatever the name of the street is that you want to get onto. I used it without text-to-speech and still got around fine but the update to version 1.2 really fixed one of the biggest omissions when the app was first released.