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Is Google Maps on your phone a TomTom killer?

Posted on 9th Nov 2009 at 11:50 by Antony Leather with 13 comments

Antony Leather
I've written a couple of previous blog posts about using my phone as a sat nav, and while CoPilot's updates have turned it into a decent app, it's still not a serious rival for a dedicated GPS.

Google's recent announcement that phones running its Android 2.0 OS will all feature free turn-by-turn GPS navigation, however, is something that threatens to change the sat nav market completely.

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Custom PC Issue 101

Custom PC Issue 101

We take Intel's new brutally fast 6-core processor out for a spin. As it uses the new LGA2011 socket we also Labs test seven new motherboards, seven coolers and seven memory kits to find out which should accompany your new CPU.

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