*** UPDATED FOR IPHONE OS 3.0 AND iPHONE 3G S DEVICES!!! ***
Travelling Companion is a great application for anybody who is constantly on the go! Who wants to lug along a huge GPS device with you when you can bring your phone? Travelling Companion offers many features to help guide you to your destination with a slick, easy to use interface.
Travelling Companion provides the following features for all users:
- Brand new UI makeover!
- 9 different configurable themes
- 8 or 16 point compass
- GPS Location: Longitude/Latitude, Degrees/Minutes/Seconds, Nautical Degrees/Minutes/Seconds
- Nearest street address
- Compass Bearing (direction of travel)
- Current altitude in Meters, Feet, Miles, Yards, Furlongs, Cables, Nautical Miles, Nautical Leagues, and Fathoms.
- Current speed of travel in MPH, KPH, Yards/Hr, Knots, Meters/Sec, Feet/Sec, Yards/Sec, and Mach.
- Configurable GPS accuracy (from 25 meters to unlimited)
- Configurable to allow your device to remain awake while active
- Forceable longitude/latitude refresh regardless of accuracy
- Heads-Up Display (mirrored) mode for drivers or pilots
- Auto-Lock display mode (which prevents your device from going to sleep)
- Languages: English, Spanish, Italian, German, French, Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Dutch, Russian, Greek, Finnish, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Czech, Danish, Estonian, Croatian, Hungarian, Indonesian, Lithuanian, Latvian, Malay, Norweigan, and Slovak
iPhone 3G S users are treated to the following additional features:
- True North Magnetic Compass
- Magnetic North Compass
- Configurable display of Bearing and Azimuth degrees
All with a very simple, easy to read, easy to use, highly configurable interface.
Please note, if you are using an iPhone 3G, First Generation iPhone, or an iPod Touch, you will not have a true magnetic compass. You will, however, have a compass bearing, which shows you direction of travel, so long as your GPS signal is clear and strong!
Coming soon:
- UTM/MGRS GPS coordinates for Military Users
- More stability and better navigation functionality for iPod Touch users
- Many, many, MANY more features!
But, how do you use it?!
Navigation:
- Hold your phone like youre watching a movie (length-wise, in landscape mode)
Settings:
- Hold your phone like youre making a phone call (straight up-and-down, in portrait mode)
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DO NOT USE THIS OR ANY NAVIGATION APPLICATION WHILE OPERATING A MOTOR VEHICLE!!
Note: If you are using this on an iPod Touch device, please be aware that GPS uses your wireless connection, so it may be inaccurate. We are aware of this issue, and are working to add functionality to Travelling Companion to correct this issue. If you buy this application and find it doesnt work well for you on the iPod Touch, please be patient and wait for updates. Well make it work better! We promise!
And, as always, if you like this application, tell your friends!