I’ve been kindly invited to test “Amaze” from locationet.com , another “free GPS application”. First remark, is that it’s a huge program,: 521 kb for my phone (first program that I see so big!).
The main purpose of this program is to give free GPS navigation. The navigation part works quite well, but the big annoying issu is the user interface: searching location/address require a lot of typing, and it’s not very intuitive. For instance, each time I reopen the search box, I have to retype the complete city, and complete address. No way to use previous addresses unless you have entered them in the specific menu.
The other issue, is that there is absolutely no caching, and the program use a lot the network.
So it’s an interesting first step, nice as a free product but needing some finishing touch to be really useable. I am just curious what is their business deal, as they seems to have commercial deal with TeleAtlas, but no obvious revenue.