i finally bought Sygic Singapore & Malaysia after deliberating for about a day.

For the current price [USD12.99] and the UI + map; i think Sygic is a good enough GPS app for a secondary irregular driver like myself la.

Tomtom is all-right. I particularly like their user friendly UI, but all in all too expensive for my needs.

For Papago M8, no matter how good the map is; I can't get over how horrible their navi voice for malay language is. Like super seriously horrible, to the point unusable. [to me at least]. Plus, I'd rate Papago's UI way below Tomtom and Sygic.

I experimented with Sygic/Mobile Maps, Tomtom and Papago M8 for about a week in KL and S'gor [KLCC,Bangsar Village, Sunway, Shah Alam, Subang, and Sg Buloh]. I keep coming back to using Sygic, and when priced at USD 13, it's an easy enough decision for me. This is just my thoughts though, as everybody else is content with Papago.

and @uncontrolled - of course la you've to turn on the location service!

EDITed.

This post has been edited by raeshad: Apr 28 2011, 03:09 PM

What do you mean by you're doing what wrongly? It's up to you to buy the SEA one. I rarely do road trips outside M'sia, that's why Msia and Spore's enough for me.

When I tried/compared Sygic Msia & S'pore and Sygic SEA - their UI is hugely different, and I kinda hated the SEA's version. That's also one of the reasons why I opted for the former. The SEA's version is not user friendly, with the keyboard being the thing I hate most. I can't imagine typing to find something on the go with that. Then again, this is only my opinion.

I don't know about the inapp purchase, as it costs a bomb for each. it's up to you really, but the 3D buildings are kinda limited to major city like KL and Spore [don't know bout the rest of SEA] so I won't suggest you to buy that. City guide is quite nifty though, although only limited to JB, KL, Langkawi, Malacca and Penang in Malaysia. You might wanna get that if you want, but it's still expensive at USD4.99 actually. I'm a bit stingy, so if you ask me; I'll buy neither

lol. Good for you.

Also, same reason why I bought it yesterday too, and why I said no to Papago; the graphics really is bad!

@gogo2, true.

that's a plus if it's true. but i'd bet that it'd be pretty tedious even if it can be done.

too true

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installation is direct from iTunes. purchase>>download>>sync. Updating [of maps] is done in the app itself when you're connected to the net. that simple.

ahhh, from page 57, post #1125 it's only applicable if you wanna use custom maps. I use Sygic myself, so I don't know bout the whole process; but it looks kinda complicated and disastrous to someone who's never tinkered with iOS before. You might wanna just stick to the oiginal map. My 2 cents worth

I bought Sygic SG and MY when it was on sale too. I have used PPG M8 (v8.15) once before as well, and from my short experience:

Voice of navi - Sygic hands down. Loads of choices, even for english - you have australian, british, american. You get limited choices in PPG. You're fine if you wannna use Mandarin or Cantonese, but the English is just OK, and their Bahasa is horrendous. No disrespect, but that Bahasa is unuseable.

UI - Sygic hands down. Rerouting time is negligible and i love lane assistant. The 3D buildings and city guides are also a plus.

Maps + POI - i dare not compare coz it depends on the user ultimately. Die hard users of PPG will vouch for the mfm maps, but im happy with sygic. Hasnt failed me once. I think, if you're used to using PPG you might feel Sygic's kinda defective as you cant install custom maps+poi. If not, Sygic is efficient enough.

You only wanna know bout the maps and POI right? At USD 13, Sygic is definitely a steal; and a no brainer to me.

aish. had to switch to my laptop to answer you.....

hands down means no competition la. sygic easily beats ppg in terms of UI and voice of navi. [to me at least] and if you've used PPG before their map is ugly right? it looks like a 2D printed map and i can't easily read the names of the roads.

for the maps and POIs, you got me wrong. what i meant is that, i honestly don't know. to me it's good enough, but im sure it can't beat the always updated custom maps from mfm.

1. if u meant from point to point then it doesnt suffer from any lagging.

2. i don't think it can beat the comprehensive PPG's POIs, but it worked allright for me. found all the pois i wanted.

3. wasn't a problem to me as i always leave it charged in my car when i use gps, so don't know bout its consumption. it has however 3 options for battery optimization. i just choose optimized.

4. personally, i dont know as i don't use my iphone as a phone. lol but from what ive read in their website, it has the ability to auto resume after phone calls.

5. no crashes on my old iphone 3g running iOS 4.0 so far, so i would assume that newer generations would be allright.

6. bought the app when it was only newly updated, so i dont know the answer to this. im also not quite sure on the frequency of them updating their maps.

7. Nope. there're no in app purchases in the SG&MY version, but in the SEA's version you can buy City Guides and 3D buildings at USD 4.99 each. That's why it's tagged as sale. You get its full feature for USD 13 [aside from the in app purchases ive already mentioned in the SEA's version ]

hope that helps. im sure anyone who've used it longer than i am will be able to help you more.

afaik, all the major players in GPS iphone apps do not need to use cellular data for their basic turn-by-turn navigation e.g. Sygic, Papago, and Tomtom.

Some functions do need internet connection and this depends on the respective GPS iphone apps. like in Sygic, if you wanna know about the state of the traffic and/or accidents near your route you have to have cellular data turned on.

If not, you can always turn off cellular data in settings.

You can't switch on Airplane Mode though. I don't know why, but maybe it'll also disable the GPS chip in the iphones. [correct me if im wrong] As long as cellular data is turned off though, you won't get charged for using data/internet connection as turning cellular data off essentially means NO internet.

@fadil, iPhone 3G can legitimately use GPS apps as they're installed with GPS chipset.

However, ive read that the iphone 3g youre using right now has the 06.15.00 iPad baseband - and as a result, you cant use any GPS apps (without internet connection) as the baseband screwed it up. You may want to read/google - problem with GPS under 06.15.00 ipad baseband in iPhone 3G/3Gs.

Sorry for that. (that might be the reason why the seller sold it off to you as it's unfixable as of now)....