Sygic Mobile Maps Europe for iPhone has just got a major update, and is bringing an iPhone-friendly user interface, new design, and new features to its users – all free of charge! For those of you who have been living in a hole, or that didn’t figure out what the app does from it’s name, Sygic Mobile Maps is a turn-by-turn voice guided navigation software that converts mobile phones into full-featured navigation devices. It is fully operable on hundreds of mobile phones and smartphones running major mobile operation systems, incl. iPhone, Symbian, Android and Windows Mobile, incl. Windows Mobile 6.5. It also supports various PDA, PND and MID devices based on Windows CE, Windows XP/Vista or Linux.
The update includes:
- Fresh new look and feel of the whole application,
- Natural scrolling through menus with no buttons needed,
- Pinch to zoom the map,
- Dynamic menu animation,
- Optimized music playback during navigation,
- iPhone-like keyboard,
- Contacts integration enhanced by means of utilizing 1400 common abbreviations for address segments across 24 languages,
- Added Norwegian and Greek instruction voices
- New speed camera database from the SCDB community – FREE of charge. More than 26000 speed cameras across 36 European countries. 99% coverage. Free updates of the speed camera database with every update of our iPhone app.
- Policetraps community – share mobile and static speed cameras and get warnings updated in real-time. Sign up on policetraps.com or report anonymously. Tap the bottom part of the navigation screen to report speed cameras or incidents,
- Traffic info icon is already present in the main menu – it will be activated at the moment of launching the service, availability and launch time depends on region,
- Useful indicators – network signal, battery status, GPS signal strength icon and time – now present throughout the menu on top right panel,
- Recent state or country is stored automatically, new destination entry is easier and non-relevant cities from various states will not pop up
- The app is ready for Google Local Search and Sygic is awaiting the green light from Google. The weather information feature is also ready and awaiting activation.
That’s fairly comprehensive, right?!
Sygic Mobile Maps Europe (£52.99) [iTunes link]