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Just saw this: "Flyover and turn-by-turn navigation will be available only on iPhone 4S and iPad 2 or later" Pretty disappointing. http://www.apple.com/ios/i
by lawdawg 14y ago
Just saw this:
"Flyover and turn-by-turn navigation will be available only on iPhone 4S and iPad 2 or later"
Pretty disappointing.
http://www.apple.com/ios/ios6/maps/ http://www.apple.com/ios/ios6/maps/
- ceejayoz 14y agoI'd imagine the 3D stuff involved in those two features is pretty hefty on the system.
- eco 14y agoFlyby I can see limiting to the devices with the nicer GPU but the lack of turn-by-turn on older devices seems odd. My Droid had 3D turn-by-turn navigation when it was released and that was in October of 2009. I suspect Apple just didn't want to compromise on how detailed the 3D was so they left older devices out.
- bethling 14y agoThe turn by turn could heavily integrated with the Siri functionality, which is only on the 4S. Total guess but it seems to make some sense.
- smackfu 14y agoThe GPS app I bought does offline turn-by-turn just fine on my iPhone 4. Apple can't pull off the same?
- ajross 14y agoTurn-by-turn navigation requires 3D hardware?
- ceejayoz 14y agoWhen it looks like this, yes: http://images.apple.com/ios/ios6/images/maps_gallery_turnbyturn_2.jpg http://images.apple.com/ios/ios6/images/maps_gallery_turnbyt...
- revelation 14y agoThere were 99$ Windows Mobile navigators years ago that offered a display as seen on the linked screenshot. This wireframe-esque display is hardly GPU intensive. (Not to mention that all of this is probably limited to few select regions, just like with the 99$ GPS..)