Wayfinder

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Wayfinder is a mobile navigation system which currently runs on Symbian 2nd and 3rd edition, UIQ, Windows Mobile and some other smartphones. An external Bluetooth GPS receiver is required for non GPS enabled phones. It is a Swedish company based in Stockholm.

Wayfinder Navigator

The Navigator sells for approximately 149 euros for a continent (Europe "or" North America) or 99 euros for a single European country not including the GPS receiver.

A user can download a 5 day trial version. Registration of the product is somewhat cumbersome, however, as it is not possible on a 'normal' web browser (which should be far easier as text input on most phones is cumbersome).

Wayfinder Earth

Wayfinder Earth is currently in beta and uses the same maps as Wayfinder Navigator. It is currently available to download, provided you enter your mobile phone number and an email address. It also allows for navigation (Wayfinder Earth GPS) and routing (Wayfinder Earth Guide) for only 14.90 and 4.95 euros a year. It lacks the voice guided navigation from the Wayfinder Navigator product but is yet good for most navigation purposes. It offers moving maps and several points of interest, setting Favorites and address search. It shows GPS information such as speed, position and heading as well.

As the maps are downloaded from the internet on the fly so the phone requires a GPRS/UMTS connection. Maps are cached on the phone memory or memorycard. According to the site, maps can even downloaded from the site and stored on the phone, once you have registered.A half an hour of navigating uses approximately 200 kb of data or only 8 kb in the so called Guide view.

Speed Cameras

Wayfinder launched the Wayfinder SpeedAlert application in December 2006. The application runs on Java and Symbian 3rd edition only. It warns the user of 15.000 speed cameras around Europe as well as when exceeded a manually set speed limit.

References

External links

* [http://www.wayfinder.com/index-en.php www.wayfinder.com] (Official Website)