Destinator 9 GPS navigation app hits the Android Market
By Dusan Belic on Friday, November 6th, 2009 at 2:12 AM PST In Android, Applications
I’m not sure I’m familiar with Intrinsyc Software, or at least I haven’t heard about them as a big player in the navigation market. To be fair, that doesn’t mean they don’t have a compelling offering, quite the contrary — if you’re competing with the likes of TomTom, Garmin and now even Google (NSDQ: GOOG), you better have something special, otherwise no one will notice. And since they are definitely smaller company (compared to the larger rivals) I’m giving them some space on IntoMobile. 
Anyway, they have released Destinator 9 in the Android Market. The application — as I’m sure you can guess from my ramblings above — provides users with navigation services offering “most compelling user experience specifically designed for Android smartphones.” I haven’t tried it myself (waiting for the GSM Droid), but I’m hoping there’s some merit to their over-hyped press release.
NAVTEQ provided the maps for the software and in addition to standard navigation service features, the application also comes with rich visual content such as extended lane guidance, speed limits, current weather conditions and 2D building footprints. Users can navigate to any map location using the TapNGo feature by using a long press on any point on the map and then tapping “Go” for voice-guided turn-by-turn navigation, “Call” for calling the local business, “Save” location, or “Add to Trip Planner”…
Interested? Look for Destinator 9 in the Android Market.
I downloaded the software and I love it. It is super easy to use. I never have to leave the map to find out where I want to go and it shows the actual weather on the horizon. It’s pretty cool. Although, I’m sure some people would prefer a less functional, but free appllication.
[...] Intrinsyc Software just announced a new GPS navigation app for Android phones out there. We’re not sure how good of competitor it will be for Google’s free navigation app but it is always good to have options.The new GPS navigation app is called Destinator 9 and the maps come from Navteq. Some of the features of Destinator 9 include lane guidance, weather updates, speed limits, and a lot more… via [...]