Magellan has launched RoadMate, an iPhone satnav application along with a car kit accessory. The RoadMate application is available for $79.99 (almost £48) and comes with a good lot of features. The pricing and availability of the car kit has not been announced as of yet. RoadMate comes with features such as Spoken Street Name Guidance, Highway Lane Assist that has highway signs that guides the user along the right lane when at exits and interchanges; Find Your Car that assists in locating your car in parking lots after having saved the location, NAVTEQ onboard maps, and a OneTouch favorites menu that makes things simple and handy, to name a few.
Apart from these usual features that one finds in regular Magellan systems, the RoadMate also has features like 3D Landmarks that provides you “stunning visual cues” as you drive, one touch access to the address book of your iPhone address book along with music control from within when you’re on the move. Though some feel that the launch of RoadMate has not been timed well as Google’s GPS guidance to Android based mobile phones has just been announced, some experts feel that if priced right, Magellan can still make it.
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