There are more and more turn-by-turn navigation apps coming out for the iPhone 3GS; iGo My Way app for the iPhone 3G/3GS is one of them and costs $79.99. iGo can be found in other stand alone car gps units that you can buy from electronic stores, the interface is similar to the stand alone units. But does this iPhone app stand up to the stand alone units?
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Navigon is back in the North American market with their Navigon MobileNavigator for iPhone / iPhone 3GS running OS 3.0 or higher. We are quite excited to review it, the app seems to be very similar to their in car devices with a clean interface and good feature set.

One big difference with other iPhone apps is that the 1.2 gigs of maps are downloaded into your iPhone, so you do not have to pay any data charges or monthly fees to use this app or worry about cellular signal dead zones.

The North American app costs a $99 from the Apple Itunes app store and is presently on sale till August 31st 2009 for a rock bottom price of $69. There are also versions for many other countries as well, including a version for all of Europe. Continue Reading »

As many of you that read one of the other blogs will know, I have owned my 3 Skypephone for a good few months now. I loved the idea of being able to use Skype on a mobile phone without resorting to some cobbled together solution involving extra equipment nor a computer. I blathered about it being a smart and useable handset that turned out to be suprisingly cheap over at Blatantly Random, but now that I have lived with it for a few months, the honeymoon period is over.

In a nutshell, it’s a normal candybar mobile phone. It’s cheap, it’s functional for calls, texts and mms, and it has hefty Skype integration, allowing you to call people from your phonebook on either their mobile, housephone or their Skype client if it’s accepting calls. The important part is that 3 UK offer this Skype functionality for no extra charge, so long as you are either on a contract or on a prepay solution. It does the jobs as described, but it does have it’s faults….

The most obvious problem is cosmetic. Rubbery latex covers most of the handset which, despite being a bit odd in terms of coating, is lovely to touch. Sadly, the coating for the removable back cover has mostly peeled off. Weirdly it is just this back cover that has the problem, since the rest of the phone seems to look ok.

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