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iPhone GPS navigation head-to-head review

iPhone navigation shootout

Nobody likes getting lost, and nobody likes paying too much for a reheated lunch at a franchise restaurant when there’s a mouthwatering family joint hiding just around the corner. Wouldn’t you know it, there’s an app that solves those problems — quite a few of the things, as it turns out. We took a look at the top iPhone navigation choices in the App Store and narrowed it down to the five below, then threw in a no charge option for kicks, covering a range of prices from free to to upwards of $120 per year. As it turns out there’s a very tangible difference between the discount and the “premium” options here, but is that extra really worth it? Read on to find out.

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