GPS software for cell phones,
update November 2008

Cell phones become serious competitors for stand-alone PND's and PDA's with GPS navigation

GPS software exists for PND's, for PDA's, but more and more also for GPS phones.

PND stands for Personal Navigation Device. These are the TomTom and Garmin boxes that only do GPS navigation. PDA stands for Personal Digital Assistant. Here we think about pocket PC's and Palm Treo devices that can do an excellent job in GPS navigation, but that can do a lot more.

Mobium is a GPS software that turns a Windows Mobile device into a full navigation system with turn-by-turn instructions.

Key Benefits to Mobium GPS navigation

• Find your destination by turn-by-turn voice driving directions and estimated drive time.
• Find whatever you need in your way by quickly locate and navigate to nearby business such as hotels, restaurants and more from over 15 million points of interest.
• Quickly find lowest Gas Prices locally or along your planned route.

With GeoMicro Mobium GPS Navigation System , your Windows Mobile device is turned into an advanced Mobile Navigation System with turn-by-turn voice announcements and detailed driving directions. You can search over 15 million points of interest (POIs) - places like hotels, restaurants, shopping malls and other tourist attractions - then dial the POI's phone number for reservations, hours of operation, or other information. With Mobium, you never need to be lost again.

AAA Mobile is a mobile GPS software suite which combines turn-by-turn GPS navigation with other location based services. For instance, users of the AAA Mobile will be able to access AAA’s Diamond Ratings for information about hotels and restaurants, as well as find various points of interest in their TourBook guide. In addition, the application will provide users with the list of AAA-approved auto repair shops.

A more interesting feature is the ability to send your location to roadside assistance crews when you are in need of help. With the AAA Mobile service you can pick up your mobile phone and call for roadside assistance. In the process of doing that your location is transmitted to AAA so that they can dispatch a nearby crew as well as giving the crew your exact location.

Garmin Mobile XT is an all-in-one GPS software solution that turns smartphones with internal GPS into full-feature Garmin navigators. These new Garmin Mobile XT capabilities will be available to customers for no additional cost and will allow them to navigate to locations found on Google Local or geo-coded photos found on Panoramio.

The Google Local search capability on Garmin Mobile XT allows users to harness more points of interest information via the world wide web. By selecting "Where to?" and "Google Local", customers can type in keywords as they would if they were on their desktop computer. In addition, Garmin has created a "quick search" feature that lets users search Google Local via categories – such as food, lodging, fuel, and more – rather than typing a keyword into the Google Local search box. Search results are based on the user’s current location and are sorted by geographic relevance.

CoPilot Live 7 is simple with redesigned step-by-step address entry, finger-touch buttons, predictive address matching, and on-screen set-up wizards. Large-buttoned menus make frequently used features quickly accessible. CoPilot Live 7's redesigned 2D and 3D map views enable drivers, cyclists, or pedestrians to see their exact location and where they are going. Finally, customers can also choose from a variety of standard road colour schemes or create their own personalized skins.

By default, the CoPilot map shows a turn or junction, progressively zooming-in automatically before returning to the non-distracting safety screen once the turn is completed. The CoPilot Live 7 GPS software also comes with Text- to-Speech voice commands, with 13 different languages available for both Windows Mobile powered Pocket PCs and Smartphones.

The whole system's a vast leap ahead of other mobile navigators, made possible thanks to CoPilot's completely re-designed graphics engine.

Wayfinder Active is a GPS software application for mobile phones that combines maps, GPS recording and statistics and is targeted at folks with an active lifestyle (think hiking, skiing, running, or biking). The application is a simple, social way to stay connected with other people with similar interests. Once installed on a mobile phone, you can access a world-wide map and record/share routes with a keystroke. It lets you follow your friends on their activities and training routes by easily importing their tracks.

The complementary online community, ActiveOutdoor, lets you upload GPX records onto the Internet. Other statistical data include maximum, current and average speeds during each activity, calories burned and that sort.

A built-in Reverse Route feature lets you find a route to anywhere. The free application can be downloaded from ActiveOutdoor. Compatible with over 100 phone models, including popular ones from Nokia and Sony Ericsson.

ViewRanger is GPS navigation software for mobile phones specifically designed for the off-road and outdoor activity user, whether walker, mountain biker, horse rider, geo-cacher, birdwatcher, or rural tourist. The GPS software offers a unique combination of 2D and 3D mapping, GPS navigation, sports performance analysis, location-based content sharing, and buddy tracking.

Used by search and rescue team members as well as weekend outdoor enthusiasts, ViewRanger is ideal for tourists, walkers, cyclists, mountain bikers, horse riders, geocachers, river boaters - in fact anyone who enjoys the outdoors.

ViewRanger runs on the Symbian S60 smartphone platform, and transforms a Nokia or other S60 mobile handset into a full-featured trail navigation system.

amAze is a first of its kind mobile local search and navigation GPS software application, and it's totally free. It turns your regular Java-enabled mobile phone into a powerful navigation tool as well as comprehensive information tool.

With amAze you get all these options and more:

• Visual and voice guidance to any destination
• Search or define any location by its address
• Search and navigate to businesses listed in local search directories (where available)
• Present any required location on the map
• View and use dynamic high quality maps at various scales
• View and navigate over high resolution satellite images
• Calculate the fastest way between two locations
• Save and manage personal favorites list

amAze enables to calculate the route of a journey to any address or point of interest. GPS will indicate your location along the route with vocal and graphical guidance to your destination in the shortest possible way. amAze is a collaborative effort led by LocatioNet Systems Ltd., together with some leading vendors in the fields of mapping, local search directories and other geographically related content.

Apisphere for Outlook enables users to send and receive automatic messages on their mobile devices or GPS-enabled laptops based on their Outlook calendar and location. Using real-time location-aware information, Apisphere for Outlook will change the way people use their calendars and how they communicate with business associates, friends and family. When a meeting is scheduled in Outlook, the plug-in creates a "sphere" around the meeting location and the calendar entry. This sphere activates several features including mapping, real-time traffic updates and geo-triggered voice and text messages for reminders on the go.

Each sphere created through Apisphere for Outlook enables mobile devices to know where a user is located and provide customized information in real-time. The plug-in automatically generates mapping information to provide driving directions to an Outlook calendar appointment and will notify the user through email, SMS or phone, when they need to leave to arrive on time. Apisphere for Outlook can then provide ongoing location-aware mapping and navigation, using real-time data such as traffic updates and road closure information to identify the optimal route.

Additionally, geo-triggered voice and text messages can be created to provide users with reminders or notifications. Messages can be created in Microsoft Outlook and set to automatically trigger when the user reaches a specific location or enters the pre-defined sphere. For example, email messages can be automatically sent every time a user enters and leaves a meeting to accurately track time for more precise timesheet records. It can also provide pre-set reminders upon leaving the sphere such as dropping the car off at the rental agency or picking up groceries before heading home.

Tracking and friend-finding can perfectly be done on a GPS phone

A new GPS software download from Blue True Services — KoolTrax — will turn any GPS-enabled mobile phone or PDA into a GPS tracker, allowing its exact location to be monitored on the Internet. It enables anyone, with the appropriate access of course, to see where the phone has been for up to a month at a time, with the software allowing the viewing of breadcrumb trails, the setting of geofences, and nominating contacts to receive alerts.

There's no limit to how many phones can be tracked using KoolTrax, so it could be used for parents to keep track of their children (that'll go down well), lone workers, or even for tracking sports progress.

JGUI's GPS.Friend allows you to find your friends, child or whoever as long as your friend is also carrying a GPS-enabled Windows Mobile smartphone, running GPS.Friend. It allows you to get your current GPS location and asks someone's phone for his/her location as well, to match both locations. If that someone has Windows Mobile phone with GPS.Friend installed too and and the GPS receiver is working, the phone will reply with the location and GPS.Friend is able to displays the location on a map, even with calculated distance. This reply is always made under the phone's owner permission, but the owner can also allow to reply automatically without any further notice.

GPS.Friend has a simple and intuitive interface. You get your own location and ask someone, with only two taps on your phone device. Just set the target phone number or select from your Contacts. GPS.Friend is independent from pre-installed map images, because it downloads the necessary map from Google Maps service and location information is exchanged between the phones by SMS text messages.

This GPS software works with Windows Mobile Professional (touchscreen) and Standard (non-touchscreen) smart phones and supports all screen resolutions.

U.K.-based social networking Sanoodi has launched SMap, an integrated and free route recording and sharing application for GPS-equipped BlackBerry, Windows Mobile, and Nokia smartphones and mobile devices. Sanoodi lets its website community members record, upload, and share routes and info on their outdoor activities, such as running, hiking, cycling, or walking the dog, according to the company. It has developed SMap in conjunction with a new version of the Sanoodi website. Routes can now be uploaded live from SMap to the site as they are being recorded. This GPS software app can be used to record routes online and offline.

HP has launched a new prototype GPS software suite and associated website called Mscape, designed to overlay digital sight, sound and interactions using GPS-enabled mobile devices. According to the firm, these interactive experiences are termed 'mediascapes'. The mediascapes are created using a simple web-based authoring tool on any GPS-enabled handset. When you walk pass the locations in the physical world, the mediascape will activate digital media such as images, text, audio and video. The triggers can be set to react to physical stimuli such as location, proximity, time and movement.

From Abaqus Inc. comes the MyGeoRecorder, a groundbreaking mobile GPS software application that allows consumers to record personal location-based content in real-time via a mobile phone and then share it with any social network and online service on the web. The MyGeoDiary service enables consumers to easily record, annotate, organize and share their personal location-information from a central place on the web. Consumers can publish and use their location data across variety of services on the web such as sites for tracking fitness regimen, sharing travel journals, blogging, enabling mobile workforce management, geotagging photos, or simply managing one’s real-world geodiary.

Proxpro's Prompt is a GPS software service that makes sure people are never late. It is a "push" technology that optimizes navigation and traffic information based on a personal calendar. Prompt compares the user's current location to the time and location of their next appointment, consults real-time and predicted traffic, displays the fastest route and tells people exactly when to leave to get to their next appointment on time.

Special settings also allow users to effortlessly monitor their daily commute to work in the morning and return drive home again in the evenings.

GPS Tracker’s many convenient features—including automatic GPS detection, real-time tracking, and detailed map and route information—make it much easier to stay on course. This all-in-one GPS software app also allows for personalized notes and photos to chronicle the stunning waterfall you stumble upon.

Features:

• Track locations in real-time including latitude, longitude, altitude, speed and more.
• Capture favorite vacation routes, scenic spots with personalized notes, photos.
• Export personalized favorite trips, locations, view with Google Earth and share with friends.
• Get detailed map and route information of POI (Point-of-Interests).
• Automatic GPS detection and connection.
• Tag my location with category, note, photo and alarm.
• Display current location map with zoom capability.
• Manage location favorites with ease.
• Turn on/off alarm and view photo with single click.
• Associate favorites with photos from web and on device. Instant photo capture from the application.
• Locate saved geo-locations or any physical address with detailed map and route information.
• Export personalized locations and routes to Google Earth, save as outlook contact or email attachment and share your trip information (route, notes, photos etc) with friends.
• GPS data log and real time satellite location status.

Micro Technologies Micro BTS (Buddy Tracking System) is a location-based service meant to deliver tracking services to mobile telephony users who are constantly moving. If you like to constantly keep tabs on the whereabouts of loved ones, then Micro Technologies "Micro Buddy Tracking System" should interest you. "Micro BTS" is a mixture of GPS (Global Positioning System), Internet, and mobile phone services. This GPS software resides on a user's phone, which enables him or her to share messages and real-time location status with friends from a mobile phone.

Using this technology , one can share others’ position with his or her friends and family, create and join groups, record and review track history.

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