Free MapQuest 4 Mobile iPhone App Adds Spoken Street Names
and Supports iOS 4
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Posted: Wednesday, July 7, 2010 at 3:43 pm


Can’t afford those $99 or $79 stand alone iPhone apps, but have a decent data plan on your iPhone? MapQuest has your solution with a FREE MapQuest 4 Mobile iPhone app that includes turn by turn directions with spoken street names. Can you really beat free? Just remember that it requires a data connection so if you have those skimpy 500 megabyte per month plans or roaming, this might not be a good idea unless you are totally lost.

Today we’ve got some big news for mobile: MapQuest 4 Mobile iPhone version 2.0 debuts! We listened to all your feedback and now this new version speaks street names aloud, re-routes automatically, and runs in the background with iOS 4 making FREE navigation easier.

Spoken Street Names keeps concentration on the task at hand while providing the most critical information needed in an easy-to-understand medium: the street name of where to turn, spoken in a friendly voice (e.g. ‘Turn Left on York Street.’).

Auto Re-Route eases the stress of a missed turn, by automatically recalculating the way to the destination. In other words, no interaction with the device is necessary.

Compatibility with iOS 4 allows MapQuest 4 Mobile iPhone to organize the myriad of purposes afforded by fast application switching and background GPS (via iOS 4) by continuing Voice Guidance & Spoken Street Names whether on a call, listening to iPod, or saving battery with the application hidden.

Direct link to iTunes download.