US: Navigon launches Android navi app with augmented reality

10 Nov 2010

Navigon has announced the release of its MobileNavigator for the Android platform. The MobileNavigator is one of the first onboard navigation apps for Android from a major navigation company.

MobileNavigator for Android includes the Traffic Live (powered by INRIX) feature without an additional cost. On the iPhone platform this feature costs an additional $20.

The app also includes industry-first feature, called Reality Scanner that identifies points of interest (POIs) by showing them in a live camera view.

Reality Scanner utilizes the phone's built-in camera, positioning, and compass components together with Navigon's POI database to project POI icons directly on the camera's image. Users can point the device and instantly identify POIs in or around a location.

Other features include:

• Reality View Pro
• Traffic Live
• Speed Assistant
• Lane Assistant Pro
• Screen Rotation
• Real Road Sign
• Adjustment between day and night modes
• 2D/3D map view
• Text-to-speech turn-by-turn directions
• Direct access and navigation to contacts in the phone book
• Route planning
• Directly call POIs
• Navigation MyRoutes
• Pedestrian navigation
• Google Local Search-connected instant search of local points of interest
• Advanced visual warning for most red-light and speed cameras.