I’ve used Mapopolis and Telenav over the years. I’ve been looking for a cheap alternative and have yet to find all the features that I’ve become dependent on.
First MS Live Search for Windows Mobile – This application is nice for looking up business and is nicely integrated with your WM contacts. It’s feature rich, traffic info and business categories for finding POI.
Google Maps for Windows Mobile – this product is more limited. It’s simply a navigation software. It’s missing the business lookup and the integration with WM contacts which is discouraging as I prefer the map interface more that the Live Search product. Notice the buttons on the map, very easy to take advantage of map features.
Compared to the products that I’ve used in the past they both lack important navigation features such as turn by turn voice alerts that are very nice to have. Another complaint of both choices is that they don’t rotate with your driving. Telenav and Mapopolis always have you driving ‘up’ on your screen. On these two, when you are driving south you are going down on your screen. Can be confusing for some. When I have a lot of turns I end up actually rotating my Treo to match my direction 🙂
Both have traffic indicators which is nice as I can avoid the bad spots on the way through town on the way to the lake!
In the end, I find myself using Live Search more because of the better integration with WM and it does at least ‘beep’ when a turn is coming and also shows how far the next turn is rather that simply keeping an eye on the map.