Apple to spend a little time in expanding the scope of the iPhone in China.

with built-in stand-alone card: Navigon laid function, TomTom, and CoPilot Live. They all have their pluses and minuses, but they have some common shortcomings: the lack of real-time traffic, there is no support for converting text to speech (except for the Navigon with its last update), and outdated maps.

I just finished testing App GPS-Navigation, which offers all those previously unavailable features: AT & T Navigator (version 1.2i.5). The catch? It has no built-in maps (ie, you need a working data plan to download maps in real time), and it requires a monthly subscription fee of $ 10. App itself is free.

This is one of the first GPS navigation applications made for the iPhone. In fact, this product TeleNav and available to other cell carriers, including Sprint and Alltel.

Unlike the other aforementioned applications, which take an hour or so to download using Wi-Fi, AT & T Navigator has built-in maps and, therefore, a snap to install on the iPhone, even over 3G or Edge connection. This makes it the perfect complement to fast, when you suddenly need a navigator GPS.

App also launches very quickly, taking only one or two seconds on my iPhone 3GS. When she can (more on that later), it also raises the GPS signals very quickly. About a week of use, I can say I really like the real-time update Traffic - that warn you both on screen and hear - and convert text to speech features. This is especially useful when you are in an unfamiliar city.

However, I found that the movement updates are available mainly for highways only, unlike Google Maps, which give them all the way up to the streets of major cities.

Converting text to speech is particularly important because it is a few for lack of AT & T navigator lane assist, a feature of most other GPS applications I tested the proposal. AT & T Navigator just does not show you a map strip of the opinion that to take in case of multiple exist or freeway merging such a hearing the street name or exit to read aloud is vital.

App is well integrated with your contact list iPhone, but it might take some time (up to 10 seconds or so) to read the address, because it must communicate with its internal server to find the address and routing in real time.

This message is the source of many problems. First of all, this means performance at the mercy of AT & T data signal, which - let’s be honest - it is a schematic at best. When there is no signal data, see the map just freezes and the car icon (representing the current location), just stuck in one place. There is no indication of what is happening either on screen or via audio. This happened three times in a short trip around the Bronx at the airport JFK.

The second question, the application is that it seems largely unable to get a GPS signal in the dense parts of big cities - in my case, both in Manhattan and in downtown San Francisco - apparently in connection with skyscrapers. I found it interesting because, although the application can not get GPS to route the signal, she was able to display my correct location (point, similar to a Google Maps) on his map.

Now here’s the dilemma: the application has no problems collecting the GPS signal in space, towns, or in the suburbs, but in larger cities, where you have an extension of the data signals, especially 3G. So it’s no better place for the application. Fortunately, the application works relatively well, even if 3G is unavailable. Where it is not, everyone, including the route, took a little longer to happen, and if you drive too fast, see the map can not be updated quickly enough to show you everything.

To compensate for this, AT & T maps and POI, a very recent date. (During the construction phase closure Bay Bridge at the weekend to Labor Day, TeleNav even made routing application automatically excludes the bridge.) You can also dial-up point (POI’s) phone number of interest simply by touching it.

In general, although I really like the text to speech function, update maps and POI, and real-time traffic, while AT & T get better data coverage, AT & T Navigator is not an option you can rely on. Now it is a much better understanding - and ultimately cheaper - to go with the app with built-in cards, such as Navigon and TomTom.

Prior to the release of ITunes, 9 pages, organization applications directly on your iPhone or IPod Touch was tiring and unpleasant. Therefore, when Apple App touted as a new organization to function on the ITunes this week, we got very excited. We spent the past three days, from 9 ITunes and the new App organization function. Although we are not satisfied that there is one mistake that made him a less than perfect. Fortunately, we have the solution.

Organization icons in the ITunes App 9

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Organization App icons
After connecting the device to your computer and run ITunes 9, just go to the Applications tab, as shown below. Once there, you can drag and drop services between sketches, which are 11 screens back home. Exciting, right? Well, not so fast, because the process a little more painful, if App is currently not assigned to one of the 176 seats on the main screen (four spaces reserved for the Dock). We have the same problem, when an organization (or remove) App icon on the IPod or ITouch.

If the App icon does not exist in space, you can not control it until you figure out the mystery. Check mark on the App on the left side of the window says that it is currently synchronized with the device. You can not manipulate the “checked” Apps, if they do not sit on the home screen. If the application is not one of the 11 home screens you need to do next.

App checked for synchronization and can not be achieved through ITunes 9 Error

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Remove the application so that it will not sync with the phone.
Install one of the 11 home screens.
Recheck the application so it will sync again.

Unlimited App can be arranged

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If you forget to double-check, you remove the application from the device the next time you sync it with ITunes. In fact, it is not very intuitive process, I just stumbled on it accidentally. In addition, you must remember this for the tasks below.

Organization or group multiple applications App
If you need to move more than one application at the time between home screens, you should use the following steps. This is useful, for example, if you want to move all your applications are playing the same page. If they do not fit on this page, they will overflow to the next automatically.

Choose a few icons Club team-click or Ctrl-click, depending on whether you are using Mac OS X or Windows.
Drag the icons on the main screen, you want to move them on.
Release the mouse button.

Some of my applications, arranging

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Move applications between home screens
It is an easy process once you know the work around the error above.
Capture App icon that you want to organize and drag it to the thumbnails screen. Through App at the top or bottom of the list screen, you can scroll the page screen.
Move the application to the selected home screen and the page will appear in the center of the photo above.
Drag the icon for App large image, that home screen, as shown above, and drop the icon in this place.
Screens Reorder home
You can drag the home page in the column of thumbnails to change the order in which they perform these steps.

Search on the main page that you want to change and select its thumbnail.
Drag the selected home page sketch of the new location and release it.
Tips App Arrangement

If you are lucky to have a blank screen home, they are used wisely as a place to temporarily store application data. This can be useful in large-scale rearrangement or, for example, when you start the screen containing only the games and photo applications.

provides the first home screen with caution, because this is only the main key press from any where on your iPhone or iPod. Stock it with applications you use most.

Use the dock at the very first page of the house for the four applications that are used most often. These docking applications will be displayed on each page provides the fastest access to the most frequently used applications. It is not limited to the default application - you can replace them if necessary, but remember that these standard applications can not be removed.

Conclusion
Let’s hope that this mistake will be corrected in the next version of ITunes so you can move applications, regardless of whether or not a check to synchronize them on or off. Developers can now add tags to their applications, which may make it easier to find them using Spotlight. And pity that Apple did not include a way to sort the applications on ITunes using these tags.

This is an excellent first attempt at making services easier to manage, and we hope that Apple will spend time on improving it. For some, however, the new solution from Apple lags behind in usability compared to the solution available on Jailbroken iPhone or a simple proof of concept App sort that we have considered above.

What do you think about the first attempt to Apple’s App for sorting in Itunes? Tell us about it in the comments.