XGPS 1.2 - iPhone Apps
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XGPS 1.2 Released

Xwaves has just release XGPS 1.2, this is great news for our readers, and yet another reason to jailbreak your iPhone. The software was initially developed for desktop os such as Windows, OSX & Linux, and now found its way to the iPhone OS platform. When XGPS 1.1 initially hit cydia we were impressed enough already with its features, and now 1.2 introduced so many more.

XGPS 1.2 is available for download via Cydia

features:

• Updated street coverage for Canadian maps(Version 1.1 would not find certain postal codes, this has been fixed)
• Rotating Map (Same as 1.1 but great advantage over stock gps utility)
• Turn by turn Voice navigation (actually speaks all street and highway names, not "next left" but "next left on hwy 401"
• Night Mode (Flips all the colors around, background is black, this helps to save battery and not to have a headlight in your car while driving at night :)
• GPS Interface, not just a map but, just like a regular GPS, Search Places, Driving Directions, Go Home & Routes Manager
• Offline Mode, don't use your CELL DATA if you don't want it to, this is so great. There are many people out there who would love to use their GPS but cant because they don't have an active data plan and the GPS utility that comes preloaded wont work unless you have internet access. With XGPS you can hop on WIFI punch in your directions and cache your map, this means it will save all diretions and map, zoom in if you want zoomed map cached while still connected. Then simply hop in your car and off you go, you will be out of wifi range, and with no data plan, yet XGPS will still read out all your directions to your turn by turn while pin pointing you on the map, all this without any data usage.
• Bookmark your destinations, if you want to save your routes you can do that no problem, also great if you are going to multiple destinations without data this will cache all those maps.
• GPX Tracking, this option writes a log file of your traveled route. We have not had a chance to test this feature.
• Option to Turn on Google Terrain Maps
• Disable Speedometer feature.

Maps Manager

• drag and select a download area
• ability to save all maps separately
• choice of zoom detail before making a cache file
• one thing that didn't work is, when we switched to terrain in our maps option and then tried to cache the map it wouldn't not allow us to go past zoom level 2, and the terrain was missing all the streets.

Test Results (4 Trips)

• voice navigation is great, you don't have to keep looking at the screen, however you need all windows closed and radio to be all the way down and fans off to hear the darn iPhone, even with volume boost mod still wasn't loud enough for us until we hooked it up to our AUX input in the car.
• voice pronunciation, well its entry, some works needs to be done to improve it but its here at last.
• Recalculations works great, auto rotation works great, GPS is almost dead on, does pop of the roar once in a while but very good for a phone :P
• Battery usage is ok, all depends on how you use it. If your going to use Google terrain maps live off 3G, with screen at full, gps searching, voice at max, and music playing in the background, i bet you wont last more then 2 hours. But if you run in night mode or screen at 50% during the day, aux audio out so it doesn't use the speaker, cached maps, and no music, i bet you get a lot more then 2 hours, and i bet your charger will actually charge your phone not like in scenario 1.

Pros

- Auto-rotate
- Auto-reroute
- Voice Navigation
- Download Maps
- Use Offline without data on rerouted routes
- GPS Interface
- Landscape Mode

Cons

- Drains battery pretty quick
- GPX Tracking still very jumpy
- Crashes sometimes

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6 Comments :

	Anonymous -  I don't know you guys but in my case, when I turn on the Rotate Map option, it loses focus where exactly I am located (with the blue point), everything is fine while I don't rotate the map. Perhaps it is a bug, anyway I will be testing more.

	iphone3g-mods -  nope dont have that problem here, i run in landscape all the time

	ash -  I SAVED TWO maps for offline use and I can't figure out how to tell XGPS to go to my saved maps for me to choose. After all, it makes you name the map after you download it. What's up with that. (arsherman1@gmail.com) if you can help me out, that's a good email address to fi

	Anonymous -  i am also looking on how to load maps, still cant figure it out on version 1.27

	kia -  im here in japan does it(this app) work here too?

	kia -  im here in japan does this app work here? i tried it when it first came out it didnt work then does it work now?