One that's really intriguing is the Sonus 1XT, which includes voice navigation.
Google Maps with voice navigation has been on Android phones since 2009.
It gives you everything you get from a GPS device, including 3D maps and voice navigation, and more, all drawing on the great potential of crowdsourcing.
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Instead of using traditional voice navigation, however, the SWAN uses what the researchers call "3D audio cues, " which consist of navigational beacons that the person is supposed to walk towards, and secondary sounds informing them of nearby objects or changes in walking surfaces.
The ongoing assessment and treatment by the paramedics could be available to the hospital-based team supporting them, and the documentation might not even require touching the computer because of voice navigation, voice recognition and noise-cancelling microphones developed for an environment as noisy as combat.
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The Lumia 820 offers the same exclusive content as the Lumia 920, including Nokia Drive, a turn-by-turn voice navigation solution, Nokia Music, a free music streaming service and Nokia City Lens, an augmented reality application that uses the phone's camera viewfinder to provide information about points of interests in the surrounding area.
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We had two iPhones and two Android phones between us, allowing me to test Google Maps on both the iPhone and Android and Apple's own mapping app for the iPhone. (There's no Apple app on Android.) These apps all have turn-by-turn voice navigation and will nag you with new directions if you make a wrong turn or try to go off-course.
It offers free turn-by-turn voice-guided navigation, something that wasn't available in the old app.
At this cost however, Nokia's free voice-based navigation alone could make it worth the spend.
Beyond simple controller or media remote input, Flixster's Xbox 360 app employs Kinect for gesture and voice-based navigation.
Similarly, we often had a hard time hearing the voice in the navigation app, even with the volume all the way up.
And for those who also opt for the Voice-Activated Navigation System, AppLink will integrate app access and control through the system's 8-inch touch screen.
ENGADGET: Ford SYNC AppLink hands-on in a little green Fiesta
These include streaming audio services like Pandora, which keep playing music from the Web while you do other things, and voice-prompted navigation apps, which keep working while you're on a call.
The new F8000 SmartTV with Smart Hub that premiered at CES come in sizes between 46 and 75 inches, with a quad core processor, voice and gesture navigation, and support for apps, internet and social networks.
Mustang will be the first vehicle that will offer AppLink with the standard SYNC interface, as well as be integrated into the optional Voice-Activated Navigation System, providing the additional convenience of an 8-inch touch screen for control.
ENGADGET: Ford SYNC AppLink hands-on in a little green Fiesta
The person who saw the prototype of the new iPhone said the device was significantly lighter than the iPhone 4 and had an edge-to-edge screen that could be manipulated by touch, as well as a virtual keyboard and voice-based navigation.
"Our Voice-Activated Navigation System integration allows us to enrich the AppLink experience even further, giving customers an industry-first combination of voice control and touch-screen access to the apps stored on their mobile phones, " said Julius Marchwicki, Ford SYNC product manager.
ENGADGET: Ford SYNC AppLink hands-on in a little green Fiesta
The application features a simplified user interface and textual information that is spoken aloud using voice synthesis to aid navigation of the device.
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In-car navigation, voice recognition, and MP3 support were still the stuff of science fiction in those dark days (particularly at the four-digit asking price), and the whole thing was doomed to a geeky, spendy niche.
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Seamless integration of voice, video and navigation experiences are still not where they need to be as a whole and no other company in the world owns the in-car and mobile device platform in the way that BlackBerry does.
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The optional voice-activated Garmin navigation system includes Sirius Travel Link to keep revelers appraised of all the current sports scores and weather information, gas prices for a fill-up on the way home and movie times for those leaving a blowout before the final gun sounds.
The multimedia system COMAND Online with internet access, navigation and LINGUATRONIC voice control is also available as an optional extra.
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Also unsurprisingly lacking on both operating systems is strong support for Google web services such as Maps with navigation, Google Voice and Google Drive.
Despite the fact that we were crossing some of the most desolate terrain in the United States, we had access to hundreds of channels of satellite radio, turn-by-turn navigation, and voice communication to anywhere in the world.
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The voice turn-by-turn navigation, GPS tracking and traffic updates are handy to have and all work well, but those are staples for any OS at this point, which means they aren't standout features.
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Get comprehensive, accurate and easy-to-use maps with built-in Google local search, voice guided turn-by-turn navigation, public transit directions, Street View and more.
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If you feel like hitting the road, you can drive with confidence knowing you'll get up to 6 hours of voice-guided turn by turn GPS navigation all on a single charge.
According to research by Strategy Analytics, a market research company, over 90 percent of feature phone owners in the US and UK are interested in downloading and installing applications such as SNS (Social Networking Service), IM (Instant Messenger), VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol), and navigation and mapping.
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And there have been apps that have plugged past holes such as voice memos and turn-by-turn navigation.
The StreetPilot family of navigation systems provides onscreen maps and voice instructions.
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