Who knows, maybe there could be an Apple iPhone app for that.
We had two iPhones and two Android phones between us, allowing me to test Google Maps on both the iPhone and Android and Apple's own mapping app for the iPhone. (There's no Apple app on Android.) These apps all have turn-by-turn voice navigation and will nag you with new directions if you make a wrong turn or try to go off-course.
For now, Sterling supports the iPhone and iPad through a set of applications delivered through the Apple App Store, and WebSphere offers iPhone, iPad and BlackBerry support through a mobile browser.
The extended MINI Connected App gives Apple iPhone users access to innovative functions designed to enhance driving fun, entertainment and social networking.
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Rather than integrating navigation directly within the Find My iPhone app, Apple is letting its default iOS Maps app handle all direction duties.
Another nice feature available on the Android, but not Google's iPhone app or Apple's software, is that the phone's screen enters a night mode when you're driving at night.
Last September when Apple ditched its Google Maps iPhone app and replaced it with its amazingly inept home-built Maps app, the move was so roundly denounced as a step backward and a weakening of the iPhone environment that chief executive Tim Cook had to release a public apology.
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To use the service, customers simply attach the cover to their Apple iPhone 4 or iPhone 4s and follow the on-screen instructions to download the TouchPay app from the Apple App Store.
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The YouTube app is free and you can download it from the Apple App Store for the iPhone, iPad and iPod touch.
In-app purchases generated a record 76% of all revenue in the Apple App Store on the iPhone in the U.S. in February 2013.
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Mickey Cargile, managing partner at Cargile Investments, notes that the e-book revolution is continuing through an Apple iPhone application, called Books.app, which is an e-reader.
Apple launched the iPhone in 2007 and the App Store a year later in summer 2008.
Apple, meanwhile, launched its own iPhone App Store independent from carriers, and doesn't share any revenue with them.
During her tenure, Yahoo has created a new weather app for Apple's iPhone.
As Apple attracts more iPhone users through its superior App Store, it will encourage developers to create more applications, creating a self-sustaining cycle.
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It's turning voice messages into texts so you don't have to dial into voicemail, and it has a nifty voice search app for Apple's iPhone.
"What we might see at WWDC is Apple opening up the app economy approach they've had with the iPhone and iPad to the Apple TV, " Gartner analyst Michael McGuire told Wired.
Although Android may well surpass iOS in the total number of apps (Dan Rowinski of ReadWrite estimates that Google Play will beat the Apple App Store to a million apps by June) the iPhone is still the starting point for most high-quality app developers because its users have repeatably been shown as more engaged than their Android counterparts.
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Apple has its own app store for the iPhone and now has a Mac App Store for its desktop apps.
For example, because the device is also now jailbroken, if a third-party app crashes your iPhone, Apple will not likely support the device.
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Launching initially as an app for the Apple iPad and iPhone (other mobile platforms will follow), Axis offers a number of novel browsing features.
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The TomTom navigation application for iPhone will be available via the Apple iTunes App Store, following the release of Apple's OS 3.0 operating system.
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In March, the Canon CameraWindow application is expected to be available on the Apple App Store for the iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch to further enhance the connectivity options.
Apple itself even published that the top free iPhone app for all of 2012 was YouTube -- an app that wasn't even available to download three months ago.
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The House Energy and Commerce Committee sent letters today to 34 iPhone app developers including Apple, Path, Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Foursquare and Instagram asking how their social apps collect user information.
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The update to Google's search application for the iPhone, which Apple will release through its App Store software distribution service for the smart phone, will allow users to ask a question and get an answer from the Mountain View, Calif.
To show off the potential of some new techniques, Dr Levoy created the SynthCam app for the iPhone and other Apple devices.
The apps are available on iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch via Apple's App Store, and select Android handset and tablet devices within Google Play.
Apple has reinvented the mobile phone with its revolutionary iPhone and App Store, and is defining the future of mobile media and computing devices with iPad.
Privacy was always a big concern for Siri's developers, says Edward Wrenbeck, the lead developer of the original Siri iPhone app, which was eventually acquired by Apple.
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