Sentence examples for smartphone navigation from inspiring English sources

The ability to use one device to do virtually everything in your life is appealing, and smartphone navigation apps are generally less expensive than a standalone GPS device.

Six months ago, the city was named as having the "worst traffic on Earth" in a survey of 50 million drivers across 32 countries, conducted by the smartphone navigation app Waze.

The manufacturers of navigation hardware, who have seen sales of stand-alone units drop almost 20 percent since their 2008 peak, argue that free and low-cost smartphone navigation apps and stand-alone devices can coexist.

Telenav has a new app called Scout for Cars, which uses its smartphone navigation program to beam navigation information into an in-dash system, along with local information, weather, traffic and points of interest.

The Spark and its competitors, including the best-selling Nissan Versa subcompact and No. 2 Kia Soul — which are slightly bigger and have four doors but cost about the same — come with features that were never included in subcompact cars, from air conditioning and power locks to Bluetooth and smartphone navigation.

"Until Apple owns the car, the majority of smartphones, navigation and wearables, etc., the company will still have limitations on its use case and integration on non-Apple devices".

Tellingly, 46% of respondents indicated they either "definitely would not" or "probably would not" buy a GPS system with their next car if their smartphone's navigation functions could be displayed on a central screen in their vehicle.

Consulting a smartphone's navigation app, on a much smaller screen and held lower, makes it more likely that a driver's eyes will leave the road for longer stretches.

For example, a year ago Facebook launched Nearby Places, a mobile Yelp competitor, but stuffed in its smartphone apps' navigation menu.

After the PND leaders, Garmin and TomTom, reported double-digit drops in revenue earlier this year, market watchers suggested that smartphones with navigation software might kill off PNDs just as they decimated PDAs.

The cocktail list is heavy on brand names and obscure ingredients (bergamot juice, allspice dram) and inevitably requires smartphone-assisted navigation, yet the resulting creations are often one-note.