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Google Maps Navigation is an invaluable piece of kit and should be every Android users first port of call before even contemplating the purchase of a dedicated sat-nav device.

The voice search is brilliant as is the voice-guided navigation, provided you don’t mind robotic voices. It also has enough built in features, such as congestion monitoring, single word location search and a multitude of views, such as satellite and Street View, which make Google Maps Navigation a serious force to be reckoned with.

All in all, if you have an Android 1.6 or above device you need this application. It is invaluable, efficient and, best of all, free.

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Google Maps Navigation - roaming costs

Google Maps is NOT 100% free because you have to pay huge roaming costs when you travel abroad - just when you are most likely to use a SatNav system! I'm sure Google Maps is just fine for US citizens, but really bad for Europeans, particularly as, apparently, it automatically puts you into 'Satellite' view when you begin navigation. Obviously Satellite view requires much more data than a map view, so is Google trying to encourage the mobile operators to rob us, or what.
Use Nokia Maps and you get all maps for free since you can download them before your trip or during it via a Wi-Fi link. Why is this publication so enamoured of Google and Apple that it is rarely, if ever, critical of them?

By Beckett on Tuesday Jun 8