So you want a turn-by-turn navigation app for your iPhone 3G or 3GS, but aren’t exactly thrilled about forking over $100 to commit to one sight unseen? We feel your pain.
And so does MapQuest. Their new MapQuest Navigator app [iTunes Link] is a subscription-based GPS navigation solution for the iPhone. For $0.99 you buy a two week trial. If you like the software, you can subscribe to the service for $3.99 a month, $9.99 for three months or an entire year for $29.99. You must choose to renew the subscription each time it expires, so there aren’t any automatic payments (which we like). Even if you enjoy the service enough to purchase an entire year up front, it’s a substantial savings over more expensive solutions [iTunes Link].
Features of MapQuest Navigator include spoken turn-by-turn directions (including street names), quick route recalculation (in case you don’t exactly follow directions), traffic-based route calculation (where available), over 16 million POIs, Contacts integration, automatic resume of navigation after ending a phone call and more.
We think this app is worth a full review, so we’ll take it out for an in-depth spin and give you the full report next week.
View/Download MapQuest Navigator (Opens in iTunes)
