Mobile users can click the button from their phone and navigation will start from their mobile browser, without the need for a separate GPS navigation or mapping app.
Navigation: The green Start button always brings you back to the Start menu from any location in your Portable Media Center.
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The top search bar includes two buttons on the right one to start a navigation, and one to bring up a list of places you've recently saved and shared.
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You can start the navigation process by tapping on a colored icon showing travel time, either in the initial small bar at the bottom of the map, or on the info sheet.
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Once you settle on the best way to get there, you can hit "Start" to fire up navigation mode, at which point Siri starts barking out orders.
Free access to Ovi Maps, the world's most comprehensive walk and drive navigation, to Nokia smartphones was only the start.
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Perhaps the biggest recent news: Garmin announced on Oct. 17 that 725 Hyundai dealerships in the U.S. will start selling its Nuvi 360 personal navigation device later this month.
America is planning to improve its satellite-navigation system further: next year, it will start launching a second generation of GPS satellites, which will offer greater accuracy for civilian users and, for military purposes, greater protection against the signal being jammed by an enemy.
To sweeten the deal, start-up Waze is announcing the availability of a free navigation application for the iPhone Thursday.
Extras: My test model was equipped with power monoroof, navigation, Outback logo floor mats, matte finish woodgrain trim, keyless start and 2-position memory driver seat.
To start with, the handset will feature a dedicated Waze launcher key for GPS navigation duties, and will also sport "high level noise reduction and echo cancellation, " along with hands-free voice activation.
Like Renault, developers and start-up businesses are actively exploring technologies and services that address the problems associated with automotive mobility (navigation aids, infomobility applications, in-car entertainment, etc.).
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For that reason, we can't speak too much about the handset's actual performance, but in our brief perusal of the start screen and associated apps, we can say the dual-core S4 does a fine job making navigation brisk and speeding along those graceful WP transitions.
All are now said to start testing in the coming months, and we're just learning that the car will feature GLONASS navigation, is said to include a "telephone with a keyboard" and will have some sort of infotainment system controlled by a "data panel, " which we're hoping is a little better integrated into the dash than the slab dominating the Model S center console.
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