Very good app, some big issues – NAVIGON Middle East Review

PLUSES: • UAE maps are more up-to-date now. • Nice feature allows you to choose among 3 routes. • Much better navigation instructions than old Garmin Nuvi (more specific on how to take turns and choose lanes). • Handy integration with Google and with iPhone contacts. MINUSES: • Add My Destinations menu options: 1) with automatic alphabetizing, and 2) automatic sorting by proximity. Doing so manually is a headache. Making My Destinations searchable with other POIs would be great. • Add POI import/export capability. There are too few POIs for UAE. • Say street names aloud for turns. Very important! This is a big problem given that the GPS can be off by 100 meters. I had to make a 20 minute detour in Dubai after it told me to take the freeway exit in 100 meters, when the exit I actually needed was the one in 200 meters. This is also really important for safety, given the small screen size--your customers need to concentrate on the road, not the screen. Especially at 120 km/hour. Also remember, a huge chunk of your customers are over 40 and can't read small print (or tiny maps) without reading glasses. • Get rid of Arabic + English mix; allow user to choose one language. Screen is way too small to be scrolling past the same things written twice for POIs, etc. • Roads built 8+ months ago are missing still. • Eliminate from menus those hotel chains that don't exist here. It's annoying to have to scroll past them and therefore bad PR for them. SUMMARY: As a UAE user, I would recommend the Navigon product highly over the Garmin Nuvi. (Even though they're now the same company ...) I use it daily. I hope that Navigon continues to listen to customers as it has in the past to keep improving the product.
Review by AppsterTaz on NAVIGON Middle East.