Of course, those dedicated navigators still offer some features you can't (yet) get elsewhere, such as the Darth Vader or Dennis Hopper voices for TomTom and downloadable vehicles for the Garmin Nuvi.

But smartphone mapping apps have always felt like a convenient alternative to the dedicated navigation system, rather than a much better one. Market leaders TomTom and Garmin are still very much ...

TomTom was, at one point, one of the biggest navigation companies in the world until Google Maps and Apple Maps entered the scene, but now the company is fighting back with big investments in its ...

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