iPhone GPS apps have revolutionized the car navigation business. Until a few years ago, people used to rely on one trick pony navigators to find their way on the road. People still buy PNDs but that market does not have as much juice as it did years ago. In fact, many GPS makers have shifted their focus to mobile applications to grow their business (or stop the bleeding). Garmin and TomTom are just a couple of well-known companies getting involved in the app business (iOS & Android).
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There was a time when people relied on one trick pony GPS devices to find their way around their city. Things have changed a lot in this industry in the past few years. Many iPhone and Android apps are now capable of providing you with accurate directions, maps, and traffic information. Social navigation apps are on the rise too. You can now use your iPhone to find out about other people’s experience on the road, find your friends, and let others know about your ETA. These 5 social GPS apps let you do those and more:

Waze: one of the best social navigation apps around. It provides you with live routing based on community-generated, real-time traffic and road information. It is Facebook friendly and offers automatic re-routing as conditions on the road change. Read the rest of this entry »

I don’t know about you but I don’t have a lot of time to watch TV these days. Besides, it is not easy to catch up with your TV when you are traveling all the time. The Dyle mobile TV by Belkin is a cool gizmo you can attach to your iPhone or iPad to start watching TV even when you don’t have WiFi access or a data plan.

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Your iPhone may be a great gadget. It is not designed to be waterproof. If you drop your phone in some water (e.g. your toilet), you could very well end up with a dead phone. Leaving your phone to dry is the safest approach. What you don’t want to do is charge your phone before it is dried or use a hairdryer for the job. The folks at Better Bathrooms have put together an infographic that gives you an idea what to do if you have dropped your iPhone in the water. Read the rest of this entry »

We used to cover a lot of iPhone docks on this site in the past. Apple did change the game by introducing Lightning-based devices just a few months ago. Since then, many Bluetooth docks have made it to the market. iLuv’s Aud 5 happens to be a speaker dock with a Lightning connector. It is designed to charge your iPhone and play your music at the same time.

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