Sygic unveils Sygic Mobile 2009.Sygic Mobile 2009 features will convert a wide range of mobile phones into fully functioning navigation devices. The new release includes enhanced navigation content and features to enrich the user experience such as safety cameras data, multilingual support for major cities and Online Update Tool, which enables easy downloads for fresh content. The product will be available on SD card, DVD or even by internet download.

Stay Connected
Sygic Mobile 2009 stays connected to get real time traffic information for users on the road. This functionality keeps as an option and is not obligatory to use the rest features of the software. By cooperating with web page services, traffic information will be updated during your road trip.

Compatible with iPhone
Sygic Mobile 2009 is fully customized for iPhone 3G platform including the rotation sensor. It adapts for landscape/portrait in real time, so it doesn’t matter which way you want to use your navigation software on iPhone or other gyro-sensor related device.

Sygic is entering the AppStore to be the first on the market that offers full turn-by-turn navigation for Apple users. “We believe Apple users will benefit soon from Sygic Mobile 2009 turn-by-turn navigation worldwide – the same as all of our customers on different platforms” said Michal Stencl, CEO and founder of Sygic.

Easy to use
Designed to help mobile phone users easily leverage their devices as powerful navigation systems, Sygic Mobile 2009 installs quickly and automatically. It delivers a simple, intuitive, touch screen or keyboard operation, as well as clear graphics, fast refresh rate and detailed guidance including lane assistance and dynamic signpost indicators.

World-wide coverage including India and China
Sygic Mobile 2009 features comprehensive Tele Atlas digital maps and content such as millions of points of interest (POIs) in all western European countries, including Scandinavia and Malta, and expanded coverage of Eastern Europe. Sygic Mobile 2009 is also available for Russia, North America, South East Asia, South America and Middle East. Coverage of India and China is in progress will be launched during year 2009.

“Sygic Mobile 2009 helps mobile device users enhance their lifestyle with rich navigation information. Accurate digital maps and powerful location-based content ensure they can effectively leverage our products to find and navigate to what they need, wherever they are,” said Michal Stencl, CEO and Founder, Sygic. “Now enhanced with community input and new content, high-quality maps from Tele Atlas give our users the best experience around the world.”

At a suggested retail price of €79 for Europe and USD $79 for North America, Sygic Mobile 2009 is an affordable and easy solution to carry a personal navigation device at all times. Devices pre-equipped with a GPS receiver can leverage the Sygic Mobile 2009 solution to instantly add the new functionality with little need for user intervention. Users are empowered with a full scope of navigation features and content at their fingertips, including:

– Alerts when a user crosses international borders and instant delivery of key country information such as speed limits, currency and time zones;

– Over 70 categories of POI information reaching well beyond the conventional lists of hotels and restaurants to include amusements parks and beaches, mountain peaks, tourist information centers and more;

– Tailored navigation options for drivers, cyclists and pedestrians;

– Voice guidance in more 20 languages.

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