Magellan Sends Its Eldest Child Into the iPhone Turn-By-Turn App
War, TearfullyS  In this war there are two battles: the polite,
traditional fight between expensive, full-featured apps like
Navigon and TomTom, and the I-will-undercut-you-if-it-means-
killing-my-own-mother gorefest of the cheaper apps, like MotionX
and Gokivo. With RoadMate, Magellan has taken the road less
bloody.  Debuting at $80 (and presumably climbing to $100
later), RoadMate recreates as much of the Magellan dedicated PND
experience as possible, which means the interface is a full
conversion—there's very little in the way of iPhone-ness here,
even down to a replacement keyboard. In addition, it falls on
the conservative side of the map storage debate, holding its
data locally—great for when you might be in a bad service area,
but not so great if you don't want to set aside 1.3GB of space
for an app.  Magellan Sends Its Eldest Child Into the iPhone
Turn-By-Turn App War, Tearfully  The rest of the feature list is
appropriate to the price: s