Google released a new mobile navigation app today and GPS navigation companies such as Garmin And TomTom saw their shares take a plunge . The announcement shaved $1.2 billion off of Garmin’s market cap alone. Its shares are down more than 16 percent so far today to $31.60. TomTom’s shares are down 21 percent to $8.11. And this is just for an Android app. But Google could very well make it available to other phones as well, and that is what has investors worried. GPS navigation apps are

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Personally TomTom is how I handle GPS Navigation with my iPhone 3GS, but contrary to popular belief this is not the end all be all of navigation applications on the iPhone. Cnet Australia has decided to put the three most popular GPS Navigation apps to the test: Sygic Mobile Maps, Navigon MobileNavigator and TomTom. Surprisingly the winner of the contest was Sygic’s Mobile Maps thanks to superb text-to-speech and lane guidance. Both MobileNavigator and TomTom failed to deliver equal lane gui

There is no ifs and buts on the fact that iPhone has ruled the mobile industry in a short span of time. Yet we have millions of loyal user of Window mobile that never thought of switching to Apple brands. In fact, there are several reasons why Window mobile can be better than iPhone. To name a few – recording phone calls are by large means possible with WinMo and not with iPhone, you need not buy Mac to develop an app, running several apps on window mobile is allowed while running more than a fe