Highly rated Android sat nav apps include Co-Pilot Live, which ranks favourably with standalone GPS systems and even offers the facility to receive live traffic updates and petrol prices. With great usability, it comes highly recommended. Other Android sat nav apps worth exploring are AndNav2; TeleNav, for the occasional user, which works on a subscription basis; or the highly innovative BreadCrumbz, which even works within the confines of a building, allowing the user to plot every step.

Some smartphones even come with Android sat nav apps as their integral feature and USP, such as the nuvifone A50, produced by Garmin-Asus. Other sat nav apps include Sygic, which fully maps the UK and Ireland and provides real time updates of traffic alongside lane guidance features and warnings of safety cameras.

One of the most notable features that you will find on the LG Renoir KC910 is its built in camera which is 8 megapixels. Very few mobile phones today offer such a high quality camera which even provides a xenon flash.  The camera can be put into a beauty function which eliminates any blemishes you might not want to remember in your photographs.  The Renoir’s camera also features an image stabilizer and facial tracking. 

This powerful LG mobile phone provides a great deal of connectivity to its users.  Take advantage of the built in Wi-Fi, Bluetooth capabilities, and even a TV Out functionality.  There is a GPS receiver built into the Renoir so you not have to worry about getting lost again!

For the variety of features that the LG Renoir KC910 offers, the device manages to stay at a reasonable size.  It is 107.8 mm long by 55.9 mm wide by 14 mm thick.  The Renoir also weighs 114 grams.  Talk time for the included battery is estimated to be around 4 hours while standby is around 430 hours.

A bonus that the LG Renoir KC910 provides is an included 8 gigabyte microSD card.  This will allow users to immediately get started capturing photographs with the handy camera.

So with Christmas on the horizon and many couples hiring a vehicle as they travel to see friends and family here’s an idea for car hire companies: free sat nav for everyone. OK it may cut into profits a little but with most of the big names hiking prices over the holiday season they can afford it, and you simply can’t buy the kind of goodwill that comes from saving a marriage! Come on car hire chiefs, open your wallets and make the world a slightly less angry place this Christmas!

The ever popular series has been repeated on most TV networks since its release, and has spawned a movie version which was released earlier this year and a revamped series set to hit US TV’s later this year.

The Mio Knight Rider GPS unit has licensed the official voice of K.I.T.T. from the 80’s TV series, William Daniels, who faithfully directs you to your destination that even The Hoff would be proud of. There is a full colour, touch sensitive widescreen within a sleek black case featuring red LED’s reminiscent of the Pontiac’s front grill on K.I.T.T. The green arrow marker has been replaced with a top view of the black Pontiac Trans Am, which pinpoints your position exactly.

Full specifications haven’t been released yet, but expect the Knight Rider GPS to be similar to the Mio Moov range only with the welcoming message “Hello Michael, where do you want to go today?” which rumours suggest that you can change to your name.

No word on a release date, but we imagine it will only be a couple of months and is set to be priced around the $270 mark. No news on whether it will be available in the UK yet.

The elegant body has clearly not been rushed in the design process, and is as nice to touch as it is easy to use. The body has faceted edges which really add to the phones stunning looks.

Ok it’s going to pick scratches up as soon as it leaves the box and you will spend the first few days having to wipe finger prints off, when impressing you’re friends who own iPhones.

What Orange calls Touchflo 3D is pretty much a slightly hacked version of the Apple cover flow. The main difference being that the album covers moves more or less from behind each other as opposed to side to side.

Orange is claiming a wonderful online experience with the HTC Diamond through full interaction with Youtube, Google and Wikipedia and its ultra-fast internet connectivity is set to almost rival a Home PC broadband connection.

The 3.2 Mega pixel camera has an auto focus and the Touch Diamond has a healthy amount of storage, 4GB of internal storage to be exact.

If you have ever left your sat nav at home don’t worry, the HTC Diamond has GPS so can easily guide you to your destination as efficiently as a dedicated sat nav system. Could this be the phone that shows up the iPhone?

It’s a first and we are showing it to you.

You’re looking at the only Bluetooth GPS satellite receiver in the world that’s got a massive 44 channels. It picks up USA and EU satellites and has an amazing reacquisition time of 0.1 seconds. The battery life is outstanding at 14 hours run time and a 3 charging cycle.Wow an amazing run-time then of 14 hours and a standby time of over a week on one charge.

The compatibility levels here are amazing working with 99% of sat nav software and you will find the Bluetooth works with smart phones, PDA and laptops.It’s built in ceramic patch antenna gives a great operating range and the unit’s status is never in question with 4 LEDs to display GPS, Bluetooth low power and charge.

So whatever make of Bluetooth device you’re using its going to work.

Charger is included with the pack.

Features:

44 Channels
Reacquisition time 0.1 sec
Rechargeable Li-ion battery
Charger
Power Sensor
High level Blue Tooth compatibility
Pad for fixing

Here we have the Kenwood HDM-555 which is a complete in-car navigation system installed with a 20GB hard disk drive, [Smá:t] Navi. Kenwood is renowned to be at the leading edge of in car technology. The HDM-555 has been designed to be easily operated and to be compatible with the iPod giving you access to all your stored Mp3’s.

The main feature of this device is the screen, or should we say the touch screen TV monitor with independent hard keys to make it very easy to use. The best thing is the HDD which will store all of your Mp3’s, WMA’s, videos and GPS maps. You can also play your CD’s and DVD’s from disc, including DVD-R/RW and CD-R/RW discs. This is a complete in car entertainment system.

One piece of software that it has been released with in Japan is the Windows Automotive platform which allows the user in the vehicle to connect through the internet to a home server, allowing you to check for telephone messages at home or control electronic systems programmed into your home network.

The Road Angel has state of the art touch screen and a full integrated QWERTY keyboard that makes it so easy to tap in the postcode, or street name into the device. One thing that we all find annoying is that with some Sat Nav systems it takes so long to set the route up before you set off. With the Road Angel it uses predictor text so it is even easier.

The maps are displayed in either 2D or 3D depending what your preference is, and set up is easy. The colour screen makes it very clear where you need to be going and there are also voice prompts that can be set up to let you know to turn at your preferred warning time. The most useful thing about the Road Angel is that it will check your speed when you are coming up to speed cameras and traffic black spots. The updates are done via USB and you have to subscribe for the monthly downloads.

The unit has a mini 2.5GB hard disk drive in, which is more useful than a memory card as they get lost easily. The touch screen is great and the clarity is astonishing for such a little screen. It takes the TomTom a few minutes to get GPS signal but apart from that, then it’s fine. The only problem we have encountered is that in some cars they have a UV protection layer on the windscreen, but sometimes they have a small hole in the bottom left hand corner which is UV free and allows the system to work fine.