CES: Navigon GPS comes to Windows Mobile, Android

LAS VEGAS – CNet's News.com reports that Navigon, the developer of the Navigon MobileNavigator for the iPhone, announced today its upcoming MobileNavigator app for Windows phone and Android platforms at CES 2010 in Las Vegas.

The MobileNavigator for Windows Mobile and Android won't offer the live-traffic updates that it's iPhone apps does or the option to control music playback within the app. Yet the new version will offer advanced features, including:

• Reality View Pro (on devices with landscape format support): displays photo- realistic 3D views with actual road signs and lane guidance for virtually every highway interchange and exit drivers will encounter.
• Lane Assistant Pro: a helpful feature to help drivers prepare to make an upcoming exit or turn by providing a lane map complete with arrows and actual road geometry.
• Text-to-speech: actual street and high way names are spoken out via the audio in addition to turn-by-turn directions. .
• Speed Assistant with adjustable audio-visual warning.
• Day & Night Mode for map display.
• Direct Access allows navigation to contacts saved in the phone's address book.
• Route Planning
• Branded POIs and POIs along the route
• 2D and 3D map view.
• Automatic switch between portrait and landscape format.
• Real signpost display.

Like it's iPhone counterpart, MobileNavigator for Windows Mobile will do GPS simulation where GPS signals are not available, such as within tunnels. The new Windows Mobile app will be available in the coming weeks at Pocketgear.com and Smartphone.net for $89, or at a promotional price of $69 for buyers who purchase before February 14. The Android version of the product will not be available untill Spring and has not yet been priced.